Hi everyone. We are a small school district that has a fairly small/simple Meraki network spanning 5 school buildings. We're having trouble with wireless performance in a couple of buildings, one of which is our main Elementary school. Two classrooms right next to each other on the second floor get bad performance, the teachers' laptop won't receive district emails until she brings it home after school, she has trouble connecting to her chromecast, and kids sometimes lose connection as well. We have the possibility of adding another couple of MRs, but my question is, will we need to run an ethernet connection through the drop ceiling to the nearest switch? The model is MR52. Thanks. ... View more

Hi everyone. In a few weeks I am going to be implementing some changes on our small school system's Meraki network. We have 5 school facilities networked together with Meraki switches and an MX at both our High School and Middle school. For starters, I am going to get Middle School vlan traffic off vlan 1 and make it a separate vlan, and then change the native vlan on all the switches at that school to match. Is it best practice to change management vlan to something besides 1 as well? If so, do I then need to go elsewhere in the Meraki dash and change other things? Lastly, do I need to create a separate "Management" vlan to tag on switches and access points? Thank you. ... View more

We use a couple of Meraki MX250 switches at the small school district I work in. Recently our ISP bumped us from 1Gbps to 10Gbps, and I was wondering if we can use our MX250s to aggregate Fiber connections between our schools to 20gbps. Does the MX250 support that, or can I just do 10Gbps? Thanks. ... View more

Hi! I work at a small school system in the IT department and since it's summer, we're trying to re-tool some processes that there have been issues with. We use a Meraki network that connects all of our school locations, and among others, we have a student wi-fi and a teacher wi-fi connection. The teachers have been prone to writing their wi-fi connection password down on whiteboards and leaving it where students are getting access to it. Some admins are asking us to find a way to integrate the password/credentials right into the SSID. I was thinking of a rough idea where we could set the teacher SSID up with a splash page requiring a one-time login with their credentials, but I think I would need to know ALL their credentials in advance, which might be tricky. Can anyone recommend an alternate method that would work with a (hopeful) minimum of fuss? Thanks in advance. ... View more

Hi everybody. I recently started working at a small local school system in the IT department. My background is in hardware and software deployment and troubleshooting, but I'm really looking to expand into Networking in a big way. Our system is comprised of 5 school campuses in a small area, with one being the furthest away in a nearby rural township. I've been poring over the Meraki dashboard for the last few days and watching some overview/deep dive videos on Meraki. I am gaining some knowledge through that, but I'd really like to ask some specific questions to get guidance on.   Here are some observations so far, and I'd love to hear people's thoughts on these.   1) It looks like our Middle School facility is on VLAN 1. I have been doing some research where people are saying not to use VLAN 1. Another management VLAN can be designated, but I didn't know if it was as simple as that with no 'side effects'.   2) Should all Wi-Fi devices be on their own VLAN for optimizing traffic? It was a suggestion I read elsewhere, I just want to sound it out and reason on it.   3) Would tagging or subnets be useful for a small school system? I am seeing that not much is tagged, and I think there are very few subnets here as well. Is a subnet indicated by an IP address ending with a /28 or a similar value?   Thank you very much for your guidance and help. ... View more