I'll keep you all updated, but it is a low priority now, and I'm supporting low-tech people remotely, so I may not get to the bottom of this anytime soon.  Thanks for the replies! ... View more

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It wasn't clicking for me what the Local page was.  I rarely get to touch see or touch the hardware.  So I'll need to remote into a laptop into the site to reach the Local page.  Thanks.  ... View more

You're putting a NAT routing device behind another NAT routing device. Are you doing that because you need more LAN ports? Clients behind the Z3 are natting when they exit the WAN port.   You should simply put the VLANs on one device. If you need more LAN port you should invest in a switch. ... View more

Great idea, and thank you! I will definitely do this in other scenarios.  In this case, the z3 is in an orange state, and it won't allow a pcap.    https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Alerts_and_Notifications/Common_Dashboard_Alerts_for_Device_Connectivity#Poor_connectivity_to_the_Meraki_cloud   I learned through photos the wrong modem is hooked up! I've basically figured out my problem, but perhaps if I didn't have access to photos, is there another way besides a pcap to figure out the mac?  I'm guessing not. ... View more

The general idea for IOT is to give it just enough access for what it needs to do. For me, that's access only to the internet and to my homeassistant instance. For some I'd prefer even no internet access but these days it's difficult for any off the shelf iot device to work without it.   There's different ways to actually implement it. Eg. You could spin up a separate SSID with a different vlan and firewall rules. Or you could connect them to the same SSID you're using now, but apply group policy to those specific clients with the applicable firewall rules. This is what I do as it's easier for me to manage . In regard of number of SSID's, no more than 3 is best practice as you will begin encountering more airtime contention but realistically for a home environment you probably won't see a difference.   You can definitely control which AP's and which SSID's broadcast 2.4 and 5ghz by editing the radio profile. However I don't think this is possible for a z1 or z3.   Edit: Looks like you can disable 2.4 or 5ghz on Z3 devices but it requires a support case. https://community.meraki.com/t5/Security-SD-WAN/Z3-WiFi-Configuration/m-p/51919 ... View more

As ping drops towards 8.8.8.8 can be anywhere on the internet, or even rate limiting of Google's server itself, I find it's more useful to have the ISP's next hop as an IP address to monitor. You'll get more value out of the loss and latency graphs and it becomes clearer when your ISP is encountering an issue ... View more