OK I will try to figure this out thank you so much. And just to confirm, what I want is for these devices to have access to everything else on the VLAN like printers in other locations and such things as file servers and what not but have there be a couple devices that can only broadcast into their own access point. Does this do that? ... View more

Philip you ubiquitous card you. Thanks for the reply. I understand a new VLAN, I dont understand the rest of what you said at all. Can you say more?  ... View more

I did the swap Easy peasy   But nothing can prepare you for the moment of telling dashboard yes disassociate my security device while 50 people wait for the internet to come back on... or not ... View more

Well I’m not sure what happened but the group policy seems to be working now for my primary user vlan. Pretty neat. Thank you for the replies. @PhilipDAth It seems like the MX takes a few seconds to realize that it should turn the speed down on like a Speedtest. There’s no speed boost option with the group policy the way there is in the firewall and traffic shaping preferences for the SDWAN. What’s with those few seconds of crazy high speeds that then get turned down? Does it just take it a moment?    I just uploaded a file and watched my Mac's activity monitor bop up and down from 15megabytes per second to 35 then back to 20 etc. 150000kbit/sec should be about 18MB/sec. Why doesnt it just hard cut it off there?  ... View more

@PhilipDAth no dice. just tested the global again on SD WAN. Set it to 40000. Speedtest on wired client still hits 200mbit+ ... View more

I just spent the last 75 minutes with Meraki support (good rep) and he was unable to get the rule to work under any configuration - global, VLAN based policy, specific client based. So weird. They are escalating it. ... View more

I was able to confirm that the Group Policy setting sticks now.   But i turn it on and it doenst seem to take effect immediately. Is there a lag time between turning it on and it actuating? Can I expect to run a speedtest.net speed test and not see the needle move over the bandwidth limit set?    If I actually only care about one VLAN having a bandwidth limit, is the best practice to do the limit via the group policy and leave the SDWAN and Wireless bandwidth limits to unlimited so that my admin and other VLANs are unencumbered? @PhilipDAth ?   And with the group policy do you lose Speedburst? This might be a good argument for using the regular dials. ... View more

They called back  said it’s an outage  test later today ... View more

I just got off the phone with support and they suggested that instead of doing the global band with limit through the slider there on the SD WAN configuration page that I try a group policy to limit bandwidth. We set up the policy and then I went over to my VLAN configuration to tell the only VLAN I really care about to adopt the group policy. I selected it from the list and it shows in the list of group policies but then when I hit save it does not stick. Any thoughts? I had to get off the phone but will call back to figure out what’s going on ... View more

Anyconnect Ill probably never use but NBAR sounds interesting. Is it just on by default as a method for inspecting traffic? ... View more

Sweet thanks. This network already cruises.      ... View more

No DFS events in the logs.   I was able to catch it in the act. The speakers went dead and looking at the log, the channel changed to get better reception less than 30 seconds before. The log shows the speakers dissociate while every other device doesnt even bat an eye. Some report dissociation and then less than 2 seconds later reassociate. I bought this: https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr902ac/ And set it up in client mode as a simple wireless bridge. The speakers have an RJ45 on them for hardwired connections. I factory reset the speakers and told them not to connect to my wireless network. They connected via this TP Link device smooth as butter and have been happily listening to music for days with not a single drop out with a few channel changes. To me, this pretty conclusively points the finger at the speaker's wireless implementation. That they hit an unrecoverable crashed state (they must be power cycled to come back online) is an indicator that the driver or whatever governs their operation is not familiar with the circumstance where a channel changes. Computers need to know what to expect or they dont work right. That all sound about right to you guys?  ... View more

also   it is against my principles to hobble working technology to meet the needs of badly made technology unless there are no other options. it just bothers me. so ill wire it before anything else. ... View more

I have a bunch of APs in a couple hundred feet radius. I have tried to fix the channel on one or two before and the AutoRF doesnt always seem to work well unless theyre all set a particular way - fixed or dynamic. Maybe you have thoughts on that. All or nothing it seems. I realize it shouldn't be that way but thats been my experience. I can hardwire it without too too much trouble so I think I will probably opt for that in the end.  ... View more

Ok so I removed 2.4ghz from the SSID I have set up for the speakers. I factory reset them, got them on the 5ghz network, and within about 5 hours they cut out. I looked at dashboard and boom right there the channel had changed like 2 min before. Dashboard reports they disconnected for an unknown reason. So that is definitely the issue. All my other devices had no problems maintaining their sessions of various kinds, but the speakers went bananas and could not recover. That seems like shoddy coding on the speaker/wifi chip/firmware vendor to not be able to recover from a channel change during normal operation. Thoughts? ... View more

I believe what happens is that the device starts out on the 5 GHz, and then that channel changes it loses the connection and then drops down to 2.4 in an attempt to find a more stable connection. I limited the SSID that it’s on a 5 GHz only network. So now there’s nowhere to run! This particular access point is in a cabin with a bunch of other cabins within 100 feet to 150 feet. All of them need primo Wi-Fi and so every now and then it seems about once a day or so one of them might change channels to better occupy unused space. ... View more

Next question. Does anybody have a favorite Wireless to ethernet bridge device? I am gonna try and sidestep this whole issue and spoof a wired connection. Id love something 5ghz compatible. Like an Airport Express that can enter bridge mode. ... View more

I just got off the phone with a semi knowledgeable employee from the speaker company. He was nice but networking isn't his forte. He sent me a set of instructions which should inform you about the level of sophistication these people understand their hardware at. This is what you call the shotgun approach...   3) Using Your LSX a) Download the KEF Control App and KEF Stream App to the device you plan to control the speakers from b) Open the KEF Control App and add new speaker, follow the on-screen prompts to get them onboarded onto your home network i) Router Settings that should be adjusted before hand: Ensure that the 2.4 and 5.0ghz network bands are separated - You may need to contact your ISP for help in splitting the network. You want to place both the phone and the speakers on the 5.0ghz network band. You will also need to change the channel of the 5.0ghz network for Auto to 36, 40, or 44. Again, you ISP should be able to help with this adjustment ii) Disable IPV6 if enabled in Router Settings as well if able iii) The device you are using to on-board the speakers to the network should only know the password to the band you are on-boarding to. Please forget other passwords of bands in range. iiii) Please verify your network password as the KEF Control App will not notify you if the password is connected iv) It is recommended you apply a static IP to the LS50W for stability purposes if not already auto assigned v) We also recommend you use Google's Public DNS Settings, found [HERE](https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using) This is for home network environments and may not be compatible with the Enterprise that you have. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you and regards, ... View more

Oh my channels change somewhat regularly because I have a number of cabins near each other and apparently they’re trying to find the best channels. I don’t notice it regularly but looking at the log for this particular access point I can see that the channel has changed several times in the past few days. I have about four other devices connected at any given moment and they all seem to be able to roll with the punches of the channel changes without much trouble. The thing that I have noticed about the speaker system is that they buffer for about 30 seconds. This has me wonder if the access point thinks that it can change channels and not affect anything and then when the speakers look back for their next chunk of data they fall off because the channel is different. ... View more