>For one, most of them are ugly.   What about putting a vinyl wrap on it then?  Or get the kids to spray paint them.  Or perhaps if you have a steel shop making decorative steel shapes to glue to the outside. Perhaps giving the children a sense of investment in the project will make them want to damage them less.   >second problem is it is hard to find large enough ones to house a MR86 with two antenna's like the ANT-27   Electrical enclosures come in all sizes.  I guarantee if you go to an electrical wholesaler you'll find one big enough.  I'd put everything (antennas, the lot) inside of a single box.   I've used an ABS plastic electrical enclosure on the outside of an ocean-going ship before to house networking equipment.  Very harsh environment.  Worked fine. ... View more

  I did the HA method to replace a MX400 from an RMA.  However I had to swap back and forth a couple of times as the RMA did not send me the SFP+ module and the modules are NOT hot-swap.  But it worked.  Each time the network stopped for only about 10 seconds.  The one issue we had that I had not seen mentioned anywhere is on the MS switch settings, I had the old MX mac address as the only one allowed for DHCP.  You need to add both mac addresses (old and new MX) to this setting before starting the swap in order to not cause DHCP blockage.    I did not, and to make things worse, I initiated a  MS firmware upgrade which meant that when the MS did a restart it did not get its address from the new MX and could therefore not reach the cloud to update even the DHCP mac allowed setting.  I had to physically visit every switch and give it a static - once connected to the cloud, the new allowed DHCP mac address synced and then everyone could get back into the network.  Simple mistake, bad consequences.  Just add to your list of things to check. ... View more