Free CW9166i

[KarstenI]

I don't want to make anyone jealous, but Cisco just gave every attendee of the WirelessLAN Professionals Conference in Prague a free CW9166i with a license. Even the other vendor participants got one ... 🙂

Thank you, Cisco!  

[PhilipDAth]

That is impressive.  Can I join remotely ...

[BlakeRichardson]

Nice a bit of an upgrade from the usual free lanyard and pen that usually doesn't work 😂

[ww]

Enjoy, please let me know how much watt it uses idle

[KarstenI]

This is my AP at home with four HomePods connected doing nothing:

[UKDanJones]

 

Very nice!

[TBHPTL]

Big ups to Tauni and the whole wrecking crew @ Meraki

[TBHPTL]

and Drew...

[MerakiDrew]

😎

[KarstenI]

Welcome, Drew! 🙂

[DrewLentz]

Sneaking around.. lol

[TBHPTL]

Will hopefully see you and the crew in Phoenix in a couple of months.

No waffles and grape drank this time... https://loloschickenandwaffles.com/menu/

[Inderdeep]

Awesome .. What is the procedure to join remotely 😃

[rhbirkelund]

Not jealous at all @KarstenI 😉

[cmr]

They work well the dual 5GHz radios particularly help in high density areas (like my hallway...) 😎

[KarstenI]

I use my existing  one with 160Mhz on 6GHz and starting today I can even roam from 6 to 6. 😄

[PhilipDAth]

I still can't even use 6Ghz in my country (New Zealand).  Maybe one day the regulatory bodies will get around to allowing it.

[KarstenI]

That is really disappointing. And the EU only has 500MHz ...

[Paccers]

Aus/NZ also only approved 500 MHz so far... hopeful of getting the full 1200 MHz in Aus at least once AFC has been tried and tested in the US!

[Paccers]

Hey @PhilipDAth check your radio settings, 6 GHz showing available for me in Aus now!

[PhilipDAth]

I just upgraded to 30.5 and now I can see 6Ghz options.  Thanks for the heads up.

[PhilipDAth]

After upgrading the Intel WiFi driver in my Lenovo notebook, I can connect to 6Ghz, and it is awesomely fast!  Now to see if I can stay connected all day long (I couldn't do that before).

[thomasthomsen]

Perhaps we will get lucky at Enterprise Networking PVT in Amsterdam next week ? 🙂

(I still remember when everyone got a 3560CX wayyyy back .. fun times at security check-in in Schiphol that last day 🙂 )

[MerryAki]

I don't think that those should be sold on ebay.. like the NFR/EA hardware.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176002185263

Seller wrote me: Yeah I got that on conference

[KarstenI]

It was certainly not meant this way. But there was no "contract" with Cisco/Meraki, so it should be legal. It's just that a vendor will think about actions like these when the devices show up on eBay in larger quantities.

[cmr]

Well there will be no hardware warranty on these, so the sellers price is somewhat optimistic!

[MerryAki]

Definitely! Maybe there are some thoughts on how to avoid those device usages in future. (Compared to other vendors, which do offer a NFR program, but the do this intentionally, as you won't get support there aswell (VMWare, Mikrotik etc.))