We used to charge $50 upfront and $10 per month for Calix. Now we just increased our plan prices and give the Calix away for free.
We have 99% take rate when it's free. On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 12:30 PM Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sean, > > Do you charge the customer for any up-front hardware costs when you > install Calix or are you only getting ROI from the $12/monthly ?? > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 3:38 AM Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > >> We install a Calix as a “trial” so we have visibility into their network >> and voila all their Wi-Fi problems go away. After the free month trial it >> becomes a paid service and for $12/mo we make sure their Wi-Fi keeps >> working. Win-win for us and them ;-) >> >> -Sean >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:33 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone figured out a solution to interference with Google WiFi at >>> customers fed via 5 GHz? >>> >>> >>> >>> We have found it to be an unsolvable problem due to: >>> >>> >>> >>> 1) Google does not let you set the frequencies >>> >>> 2) Google does not let you set the channel width (and therefore >>> presumably uses 80 MHz channels) >>> >>> 3) The mesh system presumably uses additional spectrum for the backhaul >>> between pucks >>> >>> 4) Most customers put in 3 of them, virtually guaranteeing at least 1 >>> of them will be right near the dish to the tower >>> >>> 5) Many customers also figure they can put them in outbuildings to get >>> service to their shop, barn, etc. (one customer today intended to put one >>> in his wife’s “she-shed”) >>> >>> >>> >>> With any other router we just set the channel to a U-NII-1 or DFS >>> channel. We have a fair amount of 3.65 GHz in our network and then it >>> isn’t a problem, but the majority is still 5 GHz. >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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