Meraki can be quite aggressive with 802.11v - have you done any over the air packet captures to see if it’s 802.11v kicking off the clients? With an Apple + Meraki network a good design is paramount.  the only time I’ve seen this happen even with a good design is when a client was using zscaler and it was an issue between zscaler and macOS that was causing issues. If they removed zscaler the issue went away. In the end they replaced zscaler with Palo Prisma access. No more issues.  ... View more

I’ve found the WPA3 Enterprise works fine. (It’s basically the same thing) I’ve found WPA3 Personal works fine if you have lots of new clients or Apple (where the OS is up to date)   OWE is hit or miss… OWE doesn’t seem to work in 6 GHz on Meraki… ... View more

Unless you’re running 160 MHz wide channels on 6 GHz and 80 MHz on 5 GHz and both channels are utilised at the same time by clients directly below the AP you’ll never use more than 1 Gbps anyway.  so a normal office running 20 MHz on 5 GHz and 80 on 6 GHz won’t get anywhere close to 1 Gbps.  ... View more

This is a case for a good firewall solution. I wouldn’t do any of this kind of thing directly from the AP ... View more

MAC filtering is not an effective solution. My question would be why do you want to block this device? ... View more

I don't think there is any push from meraki to use the IoT sensors in the 9166 as they already have their own IoT sensors available. You will never need more than 1 Gbps over the Ethernet connection unless you're planning on running 160/320 MHz wide channels (which you never will in an enterprise environment).  ... View more

Hey @PhilipDAth I'd personally go for the CW9164 - you can't use the IoT sensors in the 9166 and I don't value having an SDR in the 9166 either as I'd just use it in 6 GHz mode anyway. The only time the 9166 is worth it is if you're doing Cisco Blue and have Spaces to take advantage of the IoT sensors.  the MR57 is too much AP for no usable reason. Dual 5 Gbps ports... not worth it. You won't get anywhere near 1 Gbps anyway! ... View more

I'd be careful changing things like this... honestly, the best option is just to disable 2.4 GHz band. If you NEED 2.4 GHz just create a separate 2.4 GHz SSID only. This is the only way to guarantee that 5 GHz capable devices use 5 GHz.  ... View more

+1 for API - I prefer this to templates anyway... ... View more

There are a bunch of use cases for the USB port. It depends what you want to do. The best thing is that it is a source of power. This enables mesh technologies like Thread, matter, ZigBee, Z-wave, EnOcean etc.  ... View more

macOS devices don't. iOS and iPadOS devices do.  ... View more

I'll jump on a call with you. Ping me an email - dajones@natilik.com ... View more

@oscarveratech Where are you based? We have offices in the US, UK & Aus. ... View more

I can't remember exactly where it is but I'd suspect it'll be in the RF profile... that's where I'd put it.  ... View more

It's not automatic. You have to set the preference for the 9166 and MR57 ... View more

Don't filter anything on the capture. Filter it later in wireshark ... View more

Apple has very defined roaming triggers - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203068    If you're seeing clients roaming before they've got that trigger threshold then it's almost certainly 802.11v that is the culprit.  the only way to fix is to survey and redesign the WLAN properly so that this doesn't happen.  ... View more

Knowing how the clients are disconnecting would be super helpful (no IP, no association, auth timeout) etc.    a packet capture would be even better 😉   tou might be able to try downloading metageeks new channelizer 6 and running that to see what it picks up.  ... View more

Unless lots of them are doing video calls then I’d go closer to 15 per AP ... View more

Andrew is excellent - Peter has done a good presentation on the opposite… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U31fQGCsmKk  ... View more

MDM is the best way with Apple devices ... View more

This is a difficult question to answer…   what clients (every client has different capabilities) what applications are they using? how many SSIDs do you have? what density? how many APs do you have (and therefore what channel widths are you using)? what neighbouring networks are there (and therefore what interference)? in short… there isn’t a set number of clients per AP model… there may be a maximum number of associations per AP model but that won’t give you usable Wi-Fi depending on your network requirements.   start with requirements first and then design your WLAN to meet those requirements. ... View more

No, 1AP omni in the centre circle (football/soccer) turn up to 21 dBm can be heard by every seat in the Tottenham Hotspur stadium (I know because I tested it) - but we probably shouldn't talk about it here 😏 (Aruba).  There isn’t a ‘max range’ for any AP/antenna combo documented because it relies on too many things. Each channel has a different max EIRP and every antenna a different pattern. That’s where something like Hamina is super helpful. They even have a great ‘client tool’ that will show you how a particular client will be connected at that distance (RSSI & data rate).    This is effectively what the antenna patterns show in the data sheet.  ... View more

You could put 1 AP in a stadium and hear it in every seat. The issue with event wifi is actually reducing the cell sizes so that you don't have too many connected to 1 AP.  ... View more

Your issue is more likely going to be capacity planning, not signal strength. Event wifi is hard because of capacity. You don't want devices 400ft away connected to an AP! ... View more