Also, the fact that there isn't backwards compatibility is what means that you'll actually be able to use 802.11ax features in 6 GHz. It's a good thing. Not a bad thing.
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I tested this again and OWE is now working for me on android (pixel 6a) and iOS (iPhone 15 pro). It also works on my M2 MBP running sonoma.
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Meraki can be quite aggressive with 802.11v - have you done any over the air packet captures to see if it’s 802.11v kicking off the clients? With an Apple + Meraki network a good design is paramount. the only time I’ve seen this happen even with a good design is when a client was using zscaler and it was an issue between zscaler and macOS that was causing issues. If they removed zscaler the issue went away. In the end they replaced zscaler with Palo Prisma access. No more issues.
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I’ve found the WPA3 Enterprise works fine. (It’s basically the same thing) I’ve found WPA3 Personal works fine if you have lots of new clients or Apple (where the OS is up to date) OWE is hit or miss… OWE doesn’t seem to work in 6 GHz on Meraki…
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Unless you’re running 160 MHz wide channels on 6 GHz and 80 MHz on 5 GHz and both channels are utilised at the same time by clients directly below the AP you’ll never use more than 1 Gbps anyway. so a normal office running 20 MHz on 5 GHz and 80 on 6 GHz won’t get anywhere close to 1 Gbps.
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I don't think there is any push from meraki to use the IoT sensors in the 9166 as they already have their own IoT sensors available. You will never need more than 1 Gbps over the Ethernet connection unless you're planning on running 160/320 MHz wide channels (which you never will in an enterprise environment).
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Hey @PhilipDAth I'd personally go for the CW9164 - you can't use the IoT sensors in the 9166 and I don't value having an SDR in the 9166 either as I'd just use it in 6 GHz mode anyway. The only time the 9166 is worth it is if you're doing Cisco Blue and have Spaces to take advantage of the IoT sensors. the MR57 is too much AP for no usable reason. Dual 5 Gbps ports... not worth it. You won't get anywhere near 1 Gbps anyway!
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I'd be careful changing things like this... honestly, the best option is just to disable 2.4 GHz band. If you NEED 2.4 GHz just create a separate 2.4 GHz SSID only. This is the only way to guarantee that 5 GHz capable devices use 5 GHz.
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There are a bunch of use cases for the USB port. It depends what you want to do. The best thing is that it is a source of power. This enables mesh technologies like Thread, matter, ZigBee, Z-wave, EnOcean etc.
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Apple has very defined roaming triggers - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203068 If you're seeing clients roaming before they've got that trigger threshold then it's almost certainly 802.11v that is the culprit. the only way to fix is to survey and redesign the WLAN properly so that this doesn't happen.
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Knowing how the clients are disconnecting would be super helpful (no IP, no association, auth timeout) etc. a packet capture would be even better 😉 tou might be able to try downloading metageeks new channelizer 6 and running that to see what it picks up.
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This is a difficult question to answer… what clients (every client has different capabilities) what applications are they using? how many SSIDs do you have? what density? how many APs do you have (and therefore what channel widths are you using)? what neighbouring networks are there (and therefore what interference)? in short… there isn’t a set number of clients per AP model… there may be a maximum number of associations per AP model but that won’t give you usable Wi-Fi depending on your network requirements. start with requirements first and then design your WLAN to meet those requirements.
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