FWIW I'm noticing 29.1's proactive steering being more than just at association can cause a lot of client bouncing between APs if the AP steering is incorrect.   I have a space in my home where the AP strongly believes it's appropriate to steer to an upstairs AP, but the client sees that as -87dBm RSSI instead of -60 to the closest AP which happens to be more loaded. That takes throughput down from 400mbps to 90mbps and the client desperately wants to roam back to the primary AP. On 29.1 this is resulting in every 2-3 minutes trying to steer the client back to the other AP and the client being unhappy 30 seconds later and roaming back to the correct AP.   Just like before 29.x, I would highly highly recommend keeping band steering / client balancing OFF unless you notice issues with your clients. Modern Windows/Android/iOS clients are smart and look at the QBSS load element in the beacons to decide which AP is correct. AP-side steering is fraught with peril because how well the AP can hear the client may not correlate with how the client can hear the AP. ... View more

What chipset does the MR57 use?   ... View more

I think you need a little context friend, no idea what are you referring to. ... View more

FWIW as someone who’s done a lot of open source work relating to these chipsets, the MR55’s (Hawkeye v1) SoC, in addition to being Draft wifi 6, also had a number of known chipset bugs resulting in a bunch of wifi 5 class features being turned off too (in particular, most forms of beamforming are disabled, which also means things like MU-MIMO effectively don’t work well or at all).   So unfortunately in my experience, you will see a performance delta, probably on the order of 20% in the real world, between the MR55 and MR56 simply because of Hawkeye V2 SoC in the MR56 being better and not needing these mitigations. ... View more

@PhilipDAth I've noticed the same interop wise. Ironically almost every client that worked with WPA2-WPA3 personal transition mode also just works with WPA3. The handful of WPA2-only clients I had struggled to deal with a transitionary network.   I'm getting pretty tempted to segregate SSIDs to give me a WPA3 dedicated SSID. Even with PSKs, WPA3's fast transitions help a lot with video streaming when jumping between APs. WPA2 + 802.11r was great at that too but now with KRACK I'm still afraid to use that combo with PSK. ... View more

@cookiejc if you look at the release notes you'll see that 15.42 is now a late stage beta, I'm expecting the next 15.x release to be a stable release candidate, and if not then not far off. ... View more

>  if you try to process an RMA, that’s the only address Meraki will be willing to ship to.    It's correct, that the licence and support and tried to the original owner.   I've rarely had Meraki support enforce this.  They normally ask for the shipping address, and just ship replacements.  If you get the odd support person enforcing the letter of the law - close the case and open a new one. ... View more

SonicWall recently announced MultiGig firewalls.  The TZ firewall 470 has 1.5 GBPS Threat protection throughput and Zero Touch deployment through their cloud based single pane of glass interface.  They are still missing the ease of use that Meraki has.   The tea leaves are pointing in different directions due to Covid19, but we will eventually go back to offices and MutiGig is becoming a reality.   -Dave ... View more

@Bruce that's a really useful response, thank you ! ... View more

No I am not also tagging the SSID with 999.  I have 3 other SSIDs that are tagged as VLAN 10, 20, 30.  They all work fine, but the Tesla will not connect to them.  I created A new SSID and I choose to not VLAN tag it.  Now the Tesla connects.  But by not tagging it, it traverses the native VLAN.   ... View more

MX 14.42     ... View more

27.4 is now a stable release candidate! Well deserved IMO, the 27.3 and 27.4 releases have both been rock solid. Really a no brainer for WiFi 6 APs but even on my MR53 the performance has been more consistent.  ... View more

The max transmit power does not really matter that much.  You shouldn't go over 14 dBm anyway. The antennas used are the same. The receive sensitivities do seem a little different where the MR84 seems to have better sensitivities at the lower MCS's but a little worse at the high MCS's (depends on the radio, it seems to differ quite a bit).   However being able to do explicit beamforming with 4 radio's instead of 2 will improve range for multi radio clients. ... View more

I’ve seen this discussed on Reddit as well, the theory being they are faulty. It seems like tapping/pushing/prying on the mount can make the whine appear or go away, and when it whines it’s in repeater mode. ... View more

Looks like this has been fixed by 27.4. No updates on the iPad or Meraki dashboard except upgrading the firmware and the message/warning has been removed.  ... View more

Thanks @davidvan for the explanation, that makes sense 😎 ... View more

Thanks for that @NolanHerring — I appreciate the info. I just need to accept that Meraki is not a consumer or even SMB product and move on 😉   ... View more