Hey all   I have a MX68 in an environment with a bunch of devices - average 130 clients a day. Half of these devices are LAN only ie NAS's, switches, IoT sensors, point to point bridge units. For those who know me, it's a retreat center. Recently, we've had a few larger groups come and the device has seemingly hard crashed. It has happened once every 2-3 weeks and requires a hard reset. Meraki support says the device is spec'd for 50 clients (insane for the money and I dont mind saying it out loud) and that it has been spiking high in utilization/CPU usage, like pegged high. I have nothing fancy going on.. a service VLAN and regular client VLAN, but not passing any data between them. Everybody on my network is texting, YouTubing, browsing the web and using web apps etc. Consumer usage. Ok so it is what it is. Support's suggestion was that if I didn't need one or both of the Advanced Security Package options to disable them, as the deeper packet inspection would raise utilization. We are an Apple/iOS/macOS house almost exclusively and when guests come honestly if they have PCs and don't have their own virus protection that's on them, so I decided to disable AMP. Looking at the event log in Security Center I have no confirmed positives, all clean. Looking at the utilization graph things do seem to have calmed down significantly but I havent yet been able to test it with a high influx of guests. If this continues, this will force me off of Meraki MX solutions and into something like Fortigate or Firewalla.    Any other thoughts or suggestions from this incredible support community welcome.    Here's the graph for the last few days. I turned AMP off on the 2nd of August. This is with standard client load of 130, with half of those being actual devices as I stated above.     ... View more

I am getting new service today at my property. Just installing new fiber next to existing fiber. So I’ll just move the SC connector over. Easy. Thinking in the MX, I can just reprogram the IP info and then apply the settings the moment before I switch the physical connector. So thr settings will be invalid for a moment then valid once I move the LC connector. Any better way or better practice? ... View more

Hello!   I have a MX68 and currently get 250/250 fiber. I can upgrade to 400/400 fiber for $49 more. I know, a no brainer. But I am wondering how big an increase it will be. I use an Advanced Security license for my MX, and according to this doc: https://meraki.cisco.com/product-collateral/mx-sizing-guide/?file The throughput with "all security features enabled" is 300mbit. Fine. But there is one more tier up in security features with SD-Wan Secure Plus. So is that what 300mbit refers to? What would Adv Security be in that case? If a normal enterprise license is 600, does that mean Adv Security might fall in the middle and I might get the 400/400?    thanks in advance team! ... View more

Hi there all   I have a bunch of late model Apple hardware users - iPhone 13 Pros etc and new 2021 MacBook Pros. I have noticed some instability with my Verizon supplied FIOS router that does 802.11ax--Macbooks drop from time to time so I switched it down to 802.11ac and now its solid as a rock. Im considering a new installation and instead of using the tried and true MR52, I am thinking of going for WIFI 6 access points. Anybody have experience with how thats going on late model Apple hardware? Anything to be aware of? It'll be on gigabit fiber out in the middle of nowhere in Hudson, NY on a farm. There are three houses, maybe 100 feet from each other. Thinking 3 per house should do it. Id love to use fat channels and get stupid awesome link speeds but stability is #1. ... View more