Hello @mathewvarghese, Welcome! Find my answers to your questions below 🙂 Question-1: At any point in time, we have close to 10 devices accessing the Wifi environment. Hence speed is important. Is the MR53 an overkill or should I consider a higher model ? IMO the MR53 is an overkill. Great for "high-dense" deployments but I have a feeling that you're "home" deployment will not need the density requirements. I'd go for an MR33/MR42. If you want to create a "Wireless Bridge" to cover coverage holes in your home, just use "wireless meshing" between the AP's to extend coverage if there is not physical ethernet connection available. Question-2: I also was impressed with "Systems Manager", which can help me manage my kids mobile devices, track their locations and also erase the data out of the devices in the eventuality of a loss. However, I was not sure of teh licensing.. Is the Meraki Enterprise License & Support license that I am buying with the MR53 required for me to buy/deploy SM or can I just buy the MR53 & the SM license ? To qualify for Enterprise System Manager support, you have to buy SM licensing. For example, if you're looking to setup SM on 3 client devices, you'll need to buy 3 SM license. You'll be entitled to Enterprise Support for the duration of the license term within the dashboard. Quetion-3: Finally, I am also looking for a recommendation for a firewall for my home network. Presently I am using the Mac Firewall on the Mac Devices and Windows Firewall on Windows devices. What is a good model to consider given the above setup ? Are you referring to a host-based firewall here? If not, I'd recommend looking at an MX (Meraki). If you're looking to replace your existing network gear with Meraki (Wireless and SM) you may aswell look at going "Full Stack" Meraki to get the full benefits of a Meraki/Cloud managed solution. I run a "Full Stack" Meraki network at home (MX,MS,MR,MV,SM) and can say it's the best decision I've ever made!
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