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Mar 25 2020
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Mar 25 2020
3:43 AM
I was going through the Clients link on the MR AP page. It wouldn't let me block them completely though, it said they were blocked, but they were still using bandwidth. I was able to reduce their bandwidth as much as possible (down to 20kbps), which I think annoyed them enough to stop doing it, but they were not blocked. They have left the campground, so the issue is gone now, but I want to be able to have the option to do it in the future. We do have an MX and three MR. I was going through the MR page though, didn't even think to go through the MX page, but I'll try that next time we have an issue.
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Mar 13 2020
8:54 AM
Well, it says blocked on the client page, and yet they are still connecting to and using bandwidth. I know they should be able to connect to the SSID, but they shouldn't be able to connect to the outside internet. I also tried setting up a group policy of banned uers and just blocking all traffic, and they were still getting through somehow. I'll have to give support a call and see what I'm doing wrong.
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Mar 13 2020
7:52 AM
I've got a user who is clearly torrenting and I want to block them. I changed their device policy from Normal to Blocked, but did not add a message, and it seemed they were blocked. But I check again today and they have managed to use a lot of data in only a couple hours by connecting to nearly a hundred IP addresses. This time I blocked them again and sent them a message, but I can't tell if it worked or not. It said they were blocked before, but still managing to get through somehow. Is there something I missed or some other way to do this?
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May 17 2019
1:58 PM
The MR74 has four antenna ports though, I think the MR62 only has two. Right now, the 62 has two directional antenna on it, so would I be able to take out the 62 and plug in the 74 in place and only have the directional antennas plugged into two of the four ports, or would I need to get new directional antenna that each have two cables to plug into all the ports? And then I have the 62 without any antenna. The ones I was looking at for the 74 have dual cables for each antenna, so I think I would either need only one of those that can do both bands, or else need a wide field to cast out the SSID in that area. It is going to be located on the edge of the campground and pointed towards the center, so an omni would waste half the signal, but a directional would be too narrow. Is it possible to use antenna that have like a 90 degree field of coverage?
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May 17 2019
3:47 AM
I've been looking and pricing things out, and I think for now the best option would be to place a MR74 where the previous one working TP-Link was. That's about $590 + I can get a 3-year license for $200 with an electronic download. But it doesn't come with antennas, so I'd need to add that as well. I was thinking about getting the MA-ANT-25 ($160/each) for the unit, but I think I need two and I assume they each plug into antenna ports on the top or bottom (as in, not one cable to top, one cable to bottom, but both to the same side from one antenna). I think that would work to cover a lot of the campground, and if it is not, I can add another device later. I was reading the licensing setup for Meraki, and I think if I read it right, if we do add a three year license, it will combine them all so they end on the same day. So getting it all from amazon, I'd be looking at $1110 for everything for one unit with 3-years. Its a little more than I was hoping to spend, but having everything easily work together would be so much easier than trying to patch it all.
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May 17 2019
2:48 AM
Oh and for the antennas, I looked for a model number a few days ago and couldn't find anything printed on it at all. The are just the regular directional antennas and may be generic, just the almost triangular, white antennas. They didn't appear to be Cisco/Meraki antenna or anything special.
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May 17 2019
2:43 AM
They were all powered with an AC outlet and have power located where the new ones will be. Two of the three can be placed inside a building and the antennas placed on the roof, so they do not need to be outdoor antennas. The third one, which was missing for long before I got here, may require more work and be an outdoor protected unit since it is just inside a screened in building. All three have access to power though, so I do not need to use PoE or anything. But then even if I did use PoE, I'd need to have a power source somewhere since I'm not going to run 400 yards of ethernet wire. I did some more checking, and I think I can go with something with Wifi-N if it'll save money. I'm not sure what the licensing is on used equipment or if its a pain in the butt to get something transferred, but saving money would be helpful. The reason I say N is okay is because I plugged into the DSL modem directly with ethernet and ran speedtest. I got about 28Mbps ul and around 6 Mbps dl. And somehow that is supposed to be okay for 160+ sites. We have been locking down streaming, but right now it is the slow season so it hasn't been a huge issue. When this place fills up in the winter though, having all those people on at once, even if they can't stream, is going to bog it down completely. We are also pretty remote and AT&T DSL is the only service we can get here. The owner wants to have wifi available, but he also wants this place to remain rustic and not high end by any means. There are other, much more expensive places around here for that.
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May 16 2019
11:06 AM
I have inherited admin duties of a smaller campground for RVs. It was setup sometime around six years ago using a Meraki MX60 for firewall and security, and an MR62 sending out an SSID. They had a company set up the whole network, but as I'm digging into things, I'm finding that it was cobbled together and the owner was charged a lot more than he probably should have been. I've access to the Meraki cloud services so I can admin it now. I've been looking around at things, but not changing anything, just making my way through to try and understand how it is all set up. Out in the campground, we used to have three access points. Two of them disappeared. Not from the network, but were apparently just stolen by guests. I was able to find the third one, which had been working up until about three months ago when it somehow lost power and was corrupted. The access point though is a TP-Link AP. Not sure what went wrong with it, but I was unable to access its admin page and do anything with it and finally did a hard reset and still can't get it work. I'm not sure what went wrong with it, but it appears beyond fixing. It was also a wifi N, so upgrading to AC would be nice anyway. I have permission to spend the money to upgrade and repair the network using all Meraki APs. The main AP is still working fine and the licensing is good for another three years so we may as well stick with what is working there. Anyone have any insight on what would be the best way to make a mesh AP over the whole campground and which APs would be the best to get? The closest satellite AP would be around 800 feet from the main AP, but that one also has directional antennas pointing to where the old APs were. I figure I can just use the same location for the old ones (except making sure the two missing places now have physical security). That way they are still right in line with the directional antennas and should be okay. I also need something that has external antenna ports and which kind of antenna to get. The campground is about 20 acres with less than a third of that currently covered with the main AP. The way it is laid out, I should be able to put directionals at both ends of the void area now and then a omni antenna in the center to cover it all. I'm just not sure which APs to get to fill in the mesh and cover the whole space.
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