Hi
Can someone assist me with documentation that can give me a rough estimate of the maximum distance the MR84 with MA-ANT-27 antenna can support. And can you suggest a stronger Meraki AP, no generic or other brands
I would like to Mesh different sites using the MR84's
Hi @route_map
I understand this will hard to give an estimate on coverage. The Meraki documentation talks about 100 meter in general.
Hope you have referred the following documents.
https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Other_Topics/MR_Access_Point_FAQ
@AjitKumar wrote:Hi @route_map
I understand this will hard to give an estimate on coverage. The Meraki documentation talks about 100 meter in general.
Hope you have referred the following documents.
https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Other_Topics/MR_Access_Point_FAQ
If I remember right, typically speaking, normal-use wireless coverage is typically based around 100m. Simply because everyone was used to 100m thinking from copper ethernet.
If one needed longer than that, I would look into equipment designed for long range use.
Not an easy question. How are you trying to use this? Outdoor point-to-point/point-to-multipoint links?
Lots of variables involved with this, like tx power, EIRP, fresnel zone, obstructions/line of sight, link budget.
Honestly Meraki 'mesh' isn't super fantastic when it comes to trying to setup a point to point because of its VLAN limitations.
If you need multiple VLANs, your going to need to find another solution, UBNT/Ubiquiti has good gear for this, and cost effective.
https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Deployment_Guides/Mesh_Deployment_Guide
The gateway access point may be configured to connect to a trunk port and trunk SSIDs to different VLANs. Repeaters will also serve SSIDs trunked on different VLANs. However, only one SSID & associated VLAN may be configured to bridge wired clients across a mesh link on a repeater access point's Ethernet port. A mixture of wired clients and Cisco Meraki access points attached to one MR repeater interface is not a supported deployment configuration. This is due to the auto detection mechanisms that Cisco Meraki access points use to infer when they should function as a gateway or a repeater.
We've got clients using Meraki for p2p bridges and we've got clients using UBNT.
The UBNT ones are just rock solid, and vlans! Who doesn't love multiple vlans? I love multiple vlans.
I did not love having to explain to a client why he couldn't have his guest network in the remote building, because it was on a different vlan from prod.