Yeah... but a customer's idea of a clear view of the sky, is throwing it under a bush, and stringing the cable through the goat pen. The only problem that the phased antenna solves is needing to align it properly, and that isn't even the biggest problem with self installs.
Sure, there are people that can do it right, but for every one of them there are three or four who are going to screw something up to the point that it'll cost more to deal with them than paying somebody to install it. I assume that they have to be planning on having some kind of professional installation option, because there is a large number of people who just aren't going to mount an antenna and run a cable to it, no matter how much you simplify it. On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:54 PM Ryan Ray <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote: > That’s the idea behind the phased antennas though. Once it has a clear > line to the sky, the amount of sats and the motors inside apparently make > it a set and forget type thing. > > They’ll still need to run cat5 outside and have a router I assume, but who > knows. Maybe they’ll do some sort of power over coax type deal so it’s an > easy replacement of satellite installs now. > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:40 PM Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The CPE end is fixed, in that the antenna is mounted, and doesn't move. >> >> Unless it's something that you can throw on a desk and plug into an >> outlet, self install simply isn't realistic. >> Dish Network offered a self install option early on (back when they were >> only using a single satellite, and it was relatively simple)... they gave >> up on that pretty quickly. Heck, we even had a self install option when we >> first started doing fixed wireless. It didn't take long to learn a lot of >> reasons why that's a bad idea. >> >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:30 PM Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Ground to LEO isn't fixed wireless. The "tower" is moving and the >>> client is roaming. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:21 PM Jason McKemie < >>> j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Customer installed fixed wireless doesn't work well. I'm sure they'll >>>> figure this out too late, I still don't understand why big companies refuse >>>> to learn from other's mistakes. >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Carl Peterson >>> >>> *PORT NETWORKS* >>> >>> 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 >>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/401+E+Pratt+St,+Ste+2553+%0D%0A+Baltimore,+MD+21202?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> >>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/401+E+Pratt+St,+Ste+2553+%0D%0A+Baltimore,+MD+21202?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> >>> Baltimore, MD 21202 >>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/401+E+Pratt+St,+Ste+2553+%0D%0A+Baltimore,+MD+21202?entry=gmail&source=g> >>> >>> (410) 637-3707 >>> -- >>> 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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