Hi Tom - Full disclosure up front: we are IT guys and also Cisco Meraki partners (amongst other vendors).
I am curious about your experience with Meraki WiFi. We use & recommend Meraki in coworking spaces with great success and do like the system a lot. That said, I know that despite the nice simple interface, there are still lots of WiFi gotchas, networking best practices and Meraki-specific bits that go into a successful deployment. Once those are taken care of, we think that Meraki APs can be some of the best in the business. If you're having problems and want someone who knows Meraki WiFi well to have a look, I would be happy to help. Although we do this kind of work commercially, I am happy to help take a quick look to see if there are any quick & easy suggestions we can make that might help you. I can also try and help escalate your support requests if you feel that you haven't been getting the support you need. Cheers, Shabad On Friday, 21 October 2016 09:21:21 UTC+1, Tom Lewis wrote: > > Our network is Meraki and we use their security appliance > https://meraki.cisco.com/products/appliances/mx100 which includes a > firewall > > Main positive point is that it's very easy to configure and operate, even > for a non tech like me > > Main negative point is that it's very very expensive (lots of ongoing > subscription fees, otherwise your system gets shut down), and it's a strong > part of an overall weak web access system- the meraki access points are > terrible and their support is awful, in 2 years we've never had any > response back from them that wasn't completely useless. We've had so many > problems with Meraki, but for the purposes of this reply, none of them have > had anything to do with their firewall. > > If I was doing it again, I'd stick with the Meraki firewall and go with > one of the cheaper competitors- Unifi or Ubiquity for access points and > switches > > On Thursday, 20 October 2016 19:36:50 UTC+1, alison...@clickworkspace.org > wrote: >> >> Hoping to get some input on cable Internet setups. Specifically, do you >> use a firewall as part of your system? What was the decision-making >> behind that? We're thinking we might be better off without one, or at least >> to make it an opt-in. >> >> Thanks for sharing, >> Alison Klejna, Click Workspace, Northampton, MA >> >> -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
