I've been working on cleaning up some aspect of my network. Currently I have one Meraki network dashboard that runs everything. My company has two sites and I would like to diversify the dashboard to have one network dashboard for each site. If I create a new network for the remote site would I copy the configuration from my current site and just add the correct devices from the main site to the new one? Is this process going to impact my networks that are already in production or does this only affect the dashboard? ... View more

Quick question about throughput on my Meraki wireless.... My network runs all MR52 access points and I've been trying to get some better throughput when I run speed tests. My test MR52 is running a CAT6 cable directly into a switch. We just installed a 1Gb Internet EDIA circuit. If I speed test with a laptop on the wired port, I get a download of around 800Mb down and 780Mb up from Speedtest.net If I speed test with the same laptop on a wireless connection to an MR52 I top out at about 120Mb up and down. The wireless network I'm connecting to is 5Ghz only with nobody else on it. I've whitelisted my laptop and there is no shaping being done. The MR52 is showing a 1Gb connection to the switch. Testing the throughput in the in the Meraki control panel shows me about 75Mb (down?).    I know there should be some loss when running speed tests but the numbers I'm seeing seem kinda extreme. I would expect to see at least 300 to 500 down. I've even tried running tests from Speedtest.net and my provider (thinking the shortest hop would be just off my network) with different devices and I still can't get any speed from it. I ran these tests using a test AP and test wifi network but even in my production environment I'm seeing the same 100 to 120Mb barrier on the speed test and about 300Mb test from the Meraki control panel on MR52 AP's with 2Gb uplinks.      ... View more

Hi all,        I'm getting ready to install my first Meraki switch. This will be a layer 2 access switch only. The rest of my network is Cisco Catalyst. Normally when I setup the Catalyst switches, the switch if given a static address on our switch VLAN that has no Internet access. Needless to say, the Meraki switch will need to access the Internet so I can talk to the Meraki cloud. Would it be best practice to give the switch a static address instead of DHCP? The reason for the static on the Catalyst switch is because I need to access the switch directly through the CLI... not an issue with the Meraki. ... View more

Hi all,       Is there a white paper on all the limitations of Meraki Go compared to Meraki Enterprise? ... View more

Okay folks, here an interesting one.... I have a public wireless network in my Meraki environment that is in NAT mode using Meraki DHCP. I have a few business class multifunction copiers I'd like to use on this network as a printer. I've seen Ethernet to wireless adapters from companies like Netgear and IO but they rely on WPS which isn't supported under Meraki. Has anyone done something like this? I know it's a little unorthodox but this is for use maybe a handful of times a year.  ... View more

Hi all,       Sorry if this is a noob question but did Meraki expand the Go line to include switching and firewalls? I'm seeing vendors offering a GX20 firewall and a whole line of GS110 switches. I didn't see anything on Meraki's site or this community on this.... ... View more

Hi all,      Question about the MS120-8FP. I work at a college and we have a couple of small dorms on campus. We are all Meraki for our wifi but we're currently running Cisco Catalyst switches. Several of the dorms are only using two MR52 APs to cover the area in the building. I need to replace the 24 port Catalyst switch but all I need from the switch is to be able to run the two APs, and maybe one other device like a printer or an IP camera so I need 5 or 6 Ethernet ports. I was thinking about swapping our Catalyst switches for Meraki MS120-8FP switches. The AP's are PoE and we're only running two of them. If I do this will the MS120 be able to support link aggregation? The AP's have two ports on them so they can support up to 2Gb throughput per AP. ... View more

Hi all... At my work we have our corporate wifi network and we have a guest or public use wifi network. We currently use Meraki authentication (local accounts) and change the password monthly, so our accounts are january@domain.com for example. I'd like to change this so there's some tie back to the users and not use generic accounts. Looking at the access control page in my dashboard the only 3rd party option is Google and not everyone uses Google. I like the sponsored authorization but it gets difficult with larger groups.   There's no way to offer multiple styles of authentication is there? So the page would offer Google, LDAP, or sponsored authentication on the same splash page for example. ... View more

I've been getting some complaints from some users about slow network performance on our wireless network. I've run a throughput test and it's great, no problems there. I pinged the clients from the access point and I'm seeing ping times en excess of 200ms. Other clients on the same AP are getting 3ms ping response. The clients that are slow are relatively new equipment (a MS Surface and an iPad Pro). Signal strength is high (52db). The fact that I can ping others on that AP with good results says it's a client issue and not a wireless issue. Is there anything I can do to help them? ... View more