It's not quite what you described - just wondered if you'd seen / tried this:   https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Blocking_and_Allowing_Clients   This can also be done via MAC Authentication Bypass and an appropriate central RADIUS server (like Cisco ISE), in conjunction with 802.1x - this would be the recommended way for anyone looking at mulitple sites, I'd say ... View more

For MX68's, since not very long you can see what client is connected to what MX68 port in the Clients overview. ... View more

Yeah true about the survey.  I think it would just be useful to gather info about where power runs to, mostly stuff like that.  But yeah, perhaps the approach is to build it out slowly.  Advise them that we'll stick a management station or router or whatever in, add a couple access points, see what we end up with, and if things look good then we proceed to expand out.  Otherwise, I don't see there being any ready-made turnkey solution to this sort of setup.     Understood regarding 2.4Ghz.  I could be wrong but I thought I had seen some sort of blurb somewhere about some WiFi 6 being able to run on 2.4Ghz, as opposed to the typical docs that say you can run concurrently .11n with newer stuff...this thing implied .11ax runs on 2.4Ghz.  I don't know, in any case, with a good connection with a handful of clients dividing .11n amongst each other, that's a form of rate limiting right there.     Good advice all around, thank you.  I suppose if I proceed with this I'll post more questions 🙂 I appreciate it!   ... View more

I 'think' I still see the issues too.  It's hard to tell sometimes.  The types of people I facetime with often have just regular ISP-provided home routers/WiFi, so of course if they're moving around in their homes or offices it's going to be jumpy at times.     I have not tested extensively where if Facetime is acting up one day, we switch to Zoom or something else.     However, I can say one thing:  video streaming through all other services is never an issue - but, those are designed sometimes to buffer a bit of video to account for signal anomolies whereas of course video conferencing does not.  So who knows, but I never have glitches with say, Netflix, no matter where I roam around.     I do think Meraki has a need to dig further on this issue too, but I really think it requires a dedicated engineering effort, not just a bit of curiosity testing in the lab (if that's how it goes, I don't know 🙂 ).   ... View more

hosts file.  That's another one that's been a long time for me lol, but yes that makes sense.  Well I have DHCP reservations already set up on the MX so I'm probably ok to go by IP address I think but if I have need, at least the reminder of the hosts file will apply.  Thanks very much for that too.   ... View more

Looks like I can only mark one post as solution but thank you Nash for the info! ... View more

Sorry I just want to reiterate that the only place that indicates this port is running at 100 Mbps is when I hover the mouse over the green port picture of the actual MX.  Yet if I go perhaps to the MR33 itself, it indicates connected at 1 Gbps.  So it perhaps might just be the dashboard not updating properly too, and fwiw I opened the Meraki dashboard on a computer that's never been there berfore to rule out some glitchy browser cache thing.   ... View more