As people start to close out the year and finish up their last bit of maintenances ( Me 🙂 ). I wanted to take the time to reflect on a question that I was asked a few times from @AmyReyes or her group. "How is the forums?" or "Does the forums help you in any way?" so I want to share some thoughts as I it a point this to jump in with two feet to be able to give a real honest answer on this two questions.   Message Boards: As a whole the boards themselves are very responsive overall easy to navigate and is stable. I like that Cisco/Meraki continues to tweak and push the functions of the boards forward and not just sit on some version that was released X amount of years ago so that is always a good thing in my eyes. The one con I have to hit the boars with is the lack of a "Dark mode". Most of my UIs are set to some version of dark mode due to the time I spend in front of the screen today and the Meraki forums are the only UI I have that is locked to "Light mode".    Support: The support here has been amazing from so many different avenues, users helping users, Meraki employees help users, Users helping Meraki, and even user notifications on platform outages. I've seen it all here and it honestly is amazing to see. What makes support here different than other boards, at least for me is one quality of the help from when a question is asked. In other boards I've seen questions asked and the following posts be some snarky remark or some answer that just wasn't helpful. Two, just the amount of chatter that takes place on the boards. I have seen some boards feel like a ghost town with posts coming every few days and responses coming days to weeks later. In those cases the boards have no value and should be looked at by that company.   People: THIS is the secret sauce to the Meraki forums. When I was first interviewed or sent a poll I hadn't taken the time to really jump into any of the posts or conversations, but now that I have I have to say I love it. I've gotten to know that some guys need to be on pay role for Cisco as much help as they give here, the mods are really active and do a great job with keeping the forums going in the right direction, and everyone here is very respectful, and all of this is free. This being said I really have to send kudos out to some of the community superstars that I've seen. @PhilipDAth  @RaphaelL  @cmr  @KarstenI  @AmyReyes  @CarolineS    I really want to thank you for making this year a great Meraki year for me and you have added value to my perception of the Meraki product.    To new and returning forum members this tool is only as good as you make it and the more you use it the better it can be. Side note I really need to get my personal forum account and business account merged in some way :D.   Happy Holidays everyone!!! ... View more

Important note Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2 MRs support - This version and subsequent MR 31.x.x are only supported on 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) and newer MR models. 802.11ac Wave 2 and older products will not upgrade if they are in networks configured for MR 31.x.x versions, and thus, the new features will not be available. The bug fixes listed below will also not apply to Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2 and older MRs. (https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Other_Topics/Cisco_Meraki_MR_Firmware_Restrictions_Overview_and_FAQ) Includes support for Wi-Fi7 APs (https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/MR_Overview_and_Specifications/CW9176I_%2F%2F_CW9176D1_Datasheet, https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/MR_Overview_and_Specifications/CW9178_Datasheet) Bug fixes General stability and performance improvements Potential crash loops for 6GHz in non-US regulatory domains (Wi-Fi 6E APs) CW916X APs are requesting 40W PoE power when USB is disabled Known issues Sporadic packet loss & instability on Layer 3 roaming & Teleworker VPN SSID's (Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E APs) ... View more

Just an open topic to owners of the MX75 router. I noticed that my MX75 would randomly stop passing traffic and at times would randomly reboot on its own. There is no real constant with this issue as its happened over multiple firmware releases, cable replacements, and UPSs updates. I was on the phone with support today about this issue and he stated there have been reports of MS75 owners having random issues the unit have two or three causes they are looking into. I'm ok with this (to a point), but I hadn't seen any buzz on the forums about this so I am just opening this topic to see if anyone else is having this issue as well, and if it was fixed what fixed it for you? ... View more

With the release of the new Wifi7 APs how many of us are looking to test them out, and if so what feature are you looking forward to, and lastly what unit are you coming from? ... View more