regarding this statement "and they brick the unit if the license is not kept in place" Do they actually shut it down, or just no longer allow management of the device (change ssid's, IP's etc..)?
is that is the case then there's another +1 for Aerohive, if you let the mtc expire the unit still works, just cant change settings (which is just fine for most of my clients) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Meraki speed problems Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:25:29 -0400 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 ==
