Hi All, Apologies: this is a bit of a rant. I standardised our network with Meraki equipment about a year ago. I replaced aging Dell PC switches and a slew of (rubbish) wireless APs. The network deployed smoothly and the equipment works fine. Simply put we were fans. But recently I've been asking "What am I paying for?" Meraki kit isn't cheap plus you have to license it. One of the sells to management was guaranteed good quality "Customer Service" but I'm not getting that from the support team at this point. We have an unusual problem.. I stayed late to make a trivial change to our corporate network. I had scheduled time with 3rd line support guys from our ISP, we were all well prepped and ready to go. However when we flipped the switch we discovered that our L3 switch was misbehaving. We had to abandon the project, after a few (after) hours of trial and error trying to get around it. I've raised a high priority ticket with support but I've not received more than a cursory email back ( and only couple of times after being chased). It's clear that the support engineer isn't reading the supplied information and isn't engaging with our ticket. I tried to call in but I was kept on hold for 30m and couldn't get through to any one. I do have other work to get on with. I asked my colleagues about their experience and they have all abandoned tickets because support was refusing to engage with them. This has meant a couple of projects have just muddled by and we probably with a sub optimal solutions. For all their faults Dell's enterprise support is all over their tickets and incredibly proactive if we have to speak to them. Same with Microsoft. Is my experience an outlier or has everyone been in this boat? btw. If this is in the wrong forum please move it.
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