Ok do these actually help? I am a pretty basic user with a big property and about 20 gateways with a lot of roaming and about 50 iOS devices and 40 macs. Does this stuff actually help? I only see a place to turn on 802.11r in the dashboard, but not K.   Referencing https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/WiFi_Basics_and_Best_Practices/802.11k_and_802.11r_Overview   It says only use 802.11r if I am using enterprise authentication methods? I use WPA2. Is that me or somebody more complex?  Would you turn either of these on? I use standard Bridge mode networks. No concentrator. Just a single MX and a bunch of switches and APs.   Whoa just found - https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2018/08/protecting-your-networks-from-the-latest-wpa1-wpa2-psk-vulnerability/   But I dont care. Everybody on my site is on the same network anyways and I care much more about them having seamless VOIP and iOS roaming experiences than I do about somebody getting our wifi password through this hack. We are WAY out in the country and there is just nobody around. Seems like a good idea to turn it on. ... View more

Hello! I guess you learn something new every day. SNMP. I have a mostly Meraki network with a few managed netgear switches here and there and soon to be a Ubiquiti PtP link. Does SNMP let me monitor these things on the Meraki dashboard? Im not entirely sure what it does for me... I have looked around online and cant quite figure it out. ... View more

I am in a period where I’m traveling quite a bit with a small group of people. We find ourselves in circumstances and properties where our hosts have hired somebody to do the WiFi and sometimes it’s decent and sometimes it’s god awful. I am curious to know if there is a lightweight relatively compact product you’d all recommend if i just wanted to plug in my own AP to a LAN port on the hosts router and never have to even screw with their cheap WiFi implantation/chipset. I was thinking a last gen Apple Airport Express might do but then thought to ask you guys what you’d use. Does not have to be a router, just an AP. ... View more

I have an MX65 that is connected to a network of around 10 gateways and a few repeaters.  One of the gateways is an MR52 which is connected directly to the MX65's 2nd POE+ port.    My WAN is a ATT Enterprise fiber 250/250 connection that has been flawless. Recently, speeds have been getting weird from wireless clients. As I always point out in my posts, I am in a very rural area with no other RF interference (its a retreat center). I shape the bandwidth on the SSID in question (the only one being used out of 3 - we have very vey light usage) as follows:       This has been solid, great no problems. Enough speed that somebody doing something important gets a decent rate, and speed burst is always a welcome bonus. I have changed nothing in the config, but recently people have been complaining that things have been slow. I didnt believe them until today I had somebody run a speed test from this particular AP and sure enough, to multiple endpoints at major telecoms where the speeds used to be perfect, I see 60 down/224 up, 70 down/225 up etc etc. So wildly different speeds, and nowhere within my set parameters for shaping, and way slow for download. On another gateway AP, this does not occur.    What could be the problem here? Could this be defective hardware? The only other thing Ive done is update firmwares on both the MX and the APs to all the latest betas. I could try a downgrade but why would that matter if other APs are working properly?    Update - in terms of trends, the only other AP we know of that is having a problem like this is another MR52. The wired AP that is just fine is an MR42. I wonder if there is a recent bug in the firmware for MR52s... I have several others wired on campus and will try them to see if theyre also affected.   Update 2 - Ok its not MR52 exclusive. I have tried another one, wired, in a different part of my network and its performing great... except its *over* speed. Its 214/214 or so which is wrong. So it looks like my bandwidth shaping is f'd. Any other weigh ins?    Update 3- I removed all bandwidth shaping and had them try it again. Pretty much the same results. its the most I could do while everybody was still online and its still present. Downloads are at most about 100mbit on this odd assortment of APs. I will roll the firmware back to latest stable release candidates overnight and see if that helps.    Update 4- I was relieved to learn that it was the middle of the night for @PhilipDAth when I posted this 🙂 I was concerned when I didnt get a reply within 5 minutes 🙂    Update 5 - I rolled back the firmware on the MX and MRs back to safe versions - no change. Still super wonky but only on some APs. No pattern to which model. Happens on the internal POE+ port as well as downstream after 2 switches, but in other cases after several other switches other wired APs are just fine. What the heck? ... View more