Hi everyone!   I have a child who wakes up early to sneak computer time - playing Minecraft and YouTubing. He's getting way too much screen time and grouchy all day long because of an early thing.    I would like to prohibit his devices (windows laptop and school-issued ipad) from network until say 9am in the morning.   The devices are already in Group Policy managed by my MX68 with the schedule of when certain content is filtered during school hours. I can't, however, figure out how to add to it the restriction of say no internet past 10pm until 9am. The schedule slider allows just one selector.   Is what I am trying to do possible by MX68? Or do I need some sort of client endpoint management software?   Thank you Daniel ... View more

Hi everyone,   I am on CenturyLink gigabit fiber with Zyxel C3000Z providing connectivity. I have it connected to Internet Port 1 on my MX68. Typically it negotiates 1Gbps but sometimes - I still don't know why - something burps and the uplink negotiates to 100Mbps speed. Pulling the network cable, waiting for a bit and reconnecting fixes this, and so does the more heavy power-cycling.   Is there a way to configure some alert to tell me when this port is negotiated to 100Mbps?   Thank you, Daniel ... View more

Hi there,   I need some help understanding Meraki offerings that would help me get better WiFi performance and overall network security in my house.   Situation is as follows - 2 story standard West USA construction (wood frame, drywall), medium size home with brick pipe in the middle for fireplaces - Gigabit fiber connection in - Cat5E gigabit wired networking throughout the house with 2 outlets each in 3 locations on the bottom floor and 5 locations on the top floor. Currently 1 outlet is for phone and 1 outlet is for network - Office downstairs full of equipment like computers, printers (regular and 3D), NAS, and so on - Entertainment room downstairs full of networked things like disk player, TV, receiver - Children upstairs with their own rooms, ebook readers, computers and school issued Ipads, and probably soon phones (NOOOOO!!!) - wired networking is courtesy of a couple of managed 8 port Netgear switches - 2 wireless APs - one downstairs (ZyXEL C3000Z) right next to fiber entering the house, and one upstairs (Netgear WNDR37200 v2) in physical center of the house - Fiber modem (ZyHEX C3000Z) is acting as my network's router   The kids are complaining that wireless is unreliable. I don't use it myself with my wired connection via docking, but it appears a persistent issue. I messed around with channels and whatnot but I am not an expert in this stuff.  There are a handful neighbor networks but not too much, I only have 2 houses next to me and the    At the same time, I am concerned about content: - I'd like to lock down the school ipads and prevent them from accessing things like youtube and junk. I'd - also like some better advertisement filtering like pi-hole style, if possible - Inappropriate content filtering would be another bonus   I work for Cisco and get a huge discount on Meraki gear via employee purchase plan.   Questions: - All signs point at getting a security appliance from MX series to address content filtering. Which one? - With security filtering, am I going to have to live with halving my gigabit to 450mbit? - Routing to the internet - can the MX appliance act as my DHCP? Or am I keeping the the original router? - Should I put a MR30H into each of children's rooms, or even each room that I have, covering the wireless needs and maybe offering wired access to more future devices? - Or a single MR33 per floor? - What is the purpose of the antennas - how do those work?     Thank you, Daniel       ... View more