topic Re: Features missing from FREE Connect? in ExtremeCloud IQ

Features missing from FREE Connect?

sebus — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:50:54 GMT

It seems that (for a reason that is unclear to me) Schedule for SSID is missing from Connect.

Surely that is not “Enterprise only” specific , so would be nice to have it included.

Is there anything that stops me doing the schedule by few lines directly connected to the APs?

Ofcourse that needs to be done after each update from GUI (because it gets removed), but with few APs (in home use) it is not really an issue.

I think that same applies to Optimizing Radio Usage / Band Steering

That section is not locked, it simply does not exists at all!

Can anybody confirm above?

Thanks

sebus

Re: Features missing from FREE Connect?

StephanH — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 06:14:33 GMT

Hello Sebus,

You are right, neither SSID schedules nor band/client steering is available under Connect.

However (in my opinion), the decission if a feature is available or not is not based on whether they are useful for corporate or private use, but rather the product differentiation is made based on basic (necessary) and advanced features.

Re: Features missing from FREE Connect?

sebus — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 06:23:13 GMT

But using CLI one can get the feature “back” (even if it is with way less convenience)

So it is kind of pointless to disable it in GUI

Re: Features missing from FREE Connect?

SamPirok — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:18:53 GMT

You can technically enable some features via the CLI that aren’t available in Connect, but each time you push an update out to the APs, those features will be disabled again.

Re: Features missing from FREE Connect?

sebus — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 03:26:49 GMT

Sure, then I re-run them again (not that I make changes to the config on daily basis - especially in home environment, once set & working, leave it alone)

Copy/paste in Putty works great