My experience with a free Meraki device has been mostly good over the past 2 years. Congestion related to the cloud portal should have zero impact on the performance of the wireless performance of the units themselves.
It has been more stable than my Netgear running DD-WRT, but I've also been very happy with the stability and performance of an Engenius AP350 that I have. I also was using a Ubiquiti Access Point for a while, which I didn't have any complaints about. For corporate expansion, I would favor the latter two devices over a Meraki, from a cost standpoint, and from the standpoint that you have much more control of system/firmware updates. I haven't done serious speed tests among them, but I haven't noticed any performance degradation on any of the devices relative to the others. Regards, *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…* * GPG: *1AF3 EEC3 7C3C E88E B0EF 4319 8F28 A483 A182 EF3A On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 2:51 PM, John Gwinner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 == >
