Archived Network upgrades for faster wifi!

[Jeremy]

Lucky for us that by the time the upgrade is installed we should all have zebras 😉

Were we getting zebras? Thought it was Android version of our mydevices

 

[HRZone]

Were we getting zebras? Thought it was Android version of our mydevices

The zebra is an android device...

 

[Jeremy]

The zebra is an android device...

I thought there was a different branded one we were going with?

 

[SFSFun]

Nope, it's Zebra. The pilot page even has Zebra in the name.

 

[signingminion]

Wee have the upgrade. It does not fix all the problems... not sure if it made it better. My pmt assures me it did.

Come to find out this is a different, better upgrade. Yay? We don't have it yet but will be getting it.

 

[RhettB]

Faster wifi isn't going to fix half our mydevices that have the apple screen of death.

We just send in 12. Its like a revolving door.

 

[Bosch]

We just send in 12. Its like a revolving door.

I dropped 4 of them on the ETL's desk yesterday to go with the 6 already in the box to get shipped out. She looked like she was going to cry.

 

[MakingCheddar48]

Is this for DGE or TargetGuestWifi?

 

[anticon]

It's up on Redwire now. End date of August.

 

[Bosch]

Is this for DGE or TargetGuestWifi?

It needs to be both. My store has some horrid dead spots one being the check lanes which means guests have an awful time getting Cartwheel to load even their bar code.

 

[stinkeye]

The hardware is made by Zebra. The OS is Android. They're head and shoulders better than the iPods. Although, that was a pretty low bar to jump over 🙂

 

[Formina Sage]

With speed test my store rates at 3 Mbps. My cell service gets 35 in the store and home hits around 150-200. The one day my cell service was acting up I was trying to download an album to my phone so I could listen to it while working in the freezer and it took 10 minutes. Haven't had internet that slow since 2003. I don't think fiber-optic is offered the area where my store is.

Well if you did this test on the Guest Wi-Fi network, that's not surprising at all. I'm sure there's QoS (throttling) in place so an unscrupulous guest couldn't hop on the guest network and saturate the bandwidth downloading media, app updates, etc. Priority would be given to all store systems over the guest network.

 

[NKG]

#1 Guest complaint is our wifi. I can't use cartwheel in your store. Could careless if we hounded red cards.

 

[SFSFun]

We are in the process of getting Verizon fiber installed. Apparently it takes several months and several different subcontractors, so it will be done sometime this fall.

 

[IcePeasant]

Our devices stopped working and connecting for a good couple hours cause each one had the triangle with the ! In the middle. They're also slowing down we noticed. Fun times...

 

[HRZone]

#1 Guest complaint is our wifi. I can't use cartwheel in your store. Could careless if we hounded red cards.

Yeah I am torn on this. Our breakroom is a dead zone for Wi-Fi unfortunately but I feel for the cafe/sbux folks who have teens come in, buy nothing and watch YouTube videos for hours with the volume up. I know they are secretly wishing the internet would go out.

 

[Yetive]

Yeah I am torn on this. Our breakroom is a dead zone for Wi-Fi unfortunately but I feel for the cafe/sbux folks who have teens come in, buy nothing and watch YouTube videos for hours with the volume up. I know they are secretly wishing the internet would go out.

No outlets in our Sbux 😀. We never have movie watchers.

 

[WestLoggy]

Must not have it in my location yet: PDAs and even the Zebras lose connection constantly typically during the truck unload or while pulling autofills *sigh* Would be nice to be able to use Pandora without buffering haha

 

[RightArm]

Please, please, please... so sick of this wifi. Improvement would be great!

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

my store fixed it's wifi about a year or so ago and ever since then it's actually a really solid network, then again my state is covered by a FTTH provider so that could help.