I have 5 Meraki MS120-8 switches on my network. They are fed via a 2Gb uplink trunk from a Cisco 3750. The trunk is setup as switchport trunk native vlan 181 (181 is the management VLAN). When I installed the switches I left the management VLAN setting on the switch's config page blank and the switch adopted it as VLAN 1. The addressing on the switch is set to use DHCP and my DHCP server has a reservation to give it the correct address (which it has). Reading the documentation, Meraki switches don't do VTP domains so I should manually give it the correct VLAN number. When I manually assign VLAN 181 as the management VLAN I get this error...     Should the switch's address not be in the same VLAN as the management VLAN? ... View more

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