I ran into issues with iOS clients on my free one. I also had a few quirks
that I could never get around as well, short of setting the box to Bridge mode.
Despite what their documentation told me I could never get the one I have to
allow other clients on the wireless network to see any other client, kind of
important with a wireless printer in the mix. Speed was better than a Linksys
WRT54G v3 but age may have been a factor in that test. Speed compared to a
Linksys AC2500 was slower, again age may be a factor was well as the new
Linksys supports A, C, and N. The only advantage I ever really saw was the
configuration was web based making it easier to make changes to the
configuration without having to go to the clients house. I could not get any
of my garage clients to consider the units due to the cost of the license, and
they brick the unit if the license is not kept in place.
Jon
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NTSysADM] Meraki speed problems
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:51:03 +0000
Folks:
The owners are NOT happy about our Meraki wireless. I had the splash page
turned on for a while and this seemed to confuse them, but I disabled that and
they still complain about “it doesn’t work”. I haven’t been able to get my tech
support guy on their laptops
(Mac’s) to take a look, but I went on the wireless (my office is next door to
one owner) and it worked OK
I did notice a few sporadic slow-downs occasionally.
I’m wondering if the cloud management stuff means if the Meraki web site is
busy, the user workstation gets a slowdown
Has anyone else noticed that?
Wireless strength and connectivity is fine, but I do notice a lot of
‘disconnect’ events from their laptops. I opened a Meraki ticket and they
basically thought it was the laptop – but their laptops are fine (they work
well at their home
apparently).
== John ==
