RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Barber, Matt
: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:51 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you run into ? Thanks. Randy Ethridge Network Engineer V

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread James F Eyrich
We run a Meru system of over 3150 APs As far as how we like it: We decided to renew the purchase agreement for an additional 5 years that last time it expired. I am happy to discuss further offline if you like. You are close enough drive up sometime if you want to get the nickle tour of the g

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel Eklund
Randy, We have about 1100 AP320s right now and are installing a few hundred more over the next month or two. We have been very happy with this system. There have been no major issues and everything has worked as advertised. There have been minor issues, as there are with every product, but the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Johnson, Neil M
We have ~2300 APs on campus and are satisfied with the system. There's some functionality (VLAN pooling, Native IPv6 support) that we would like to see in the product. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer Information Technology Services The University of Iowa Work: 319 384-0938 Mobile: 3

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Hammond, James T.S.
@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Randy Ethridge Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:51 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running MERU and if so how do you like it and what problems have you

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Greg Schuman
Randy, Franklin and Marshall College uses the Meru system. We have over 500 APs in production. We are very happy with the system. Feel free to contact me directly if you would like more information. Greg On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Randy Ethridge wrote: I just heard a pitch for MERU a

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Simpson
A couple years ago we tested Meru, Aruba and Cisco wireless out in one of our buildings to see which system would best fit our environment. During the Meru test we had a serious failure caused by a bug in the code. Later I found out there was a work around, but as a result of that I had the pl

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Frank Bulk
esday, April 13, 2011 10:07 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless We have ~2300 APs on campus and are satisfied with the system. There's some functionality (VLAN pooling, Native IPv6 support) that we would like to see in the product. -Neil

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread Johnson, Neil M
DUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:08 AM > To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless > > I was told by our local college

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-13 Thread James F Eyrich
We plan on rolling out IPv6 on our secured SSID by at least World IPv6 day and have been running on a test SSID for several weeks now. Using RA to assign the addresses. No issues so far. We have only tested it on 4.0 MR2. -jim On 4/13/2011 11:49 AM, Johnson, Neil M wrote: Meru currently suppor

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-14 Thread Joe Lim
p Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Randy Ethridge Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:51 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless I just heard a pitch for MERU and it almost sounds to good. Is anyone running MERU and if so how do you l

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-15 Thread John Center
Hi Randy, We're long time customers of Meru, & have been please with the product & support. We have a mix of AP208s (a/g) & AP320 (a/g/n), over 1100 altogether. We also use their EzRF product for managing the controllers. We like the single channel architecture, which works well for us. I

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-18 Thread Randy Ethridge
Thanks for all the great feedback, it is appreciated. I have another question regarding coexisting. Did anyone have Meru and Cisco running at the same time and what issues did you see. Obviously with our current state of funding we can't fork-lift replace our entire Cisco wireless system so they

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-18 Thread Jason Hall
I have Meru running along side Cisco and 5G access points without any issues. As I introduce Meru APs, I perform a site survey and try and use a channel not being used by the Cisco APs. I still use the Meru single-cell architecture as I complete each building and phase out all the older gear.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-19 Thread Huels, Chris
We have a deployment of over 1500 Meru access point connected to a mixture of 16 3000 and 4100 controllers. Over the years we have had numerous problems. Code upgrades may fix the immediate problem, but then cause a new batch of issues. For example, the last upgrade we went from 4.0-105 to 4.0-

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-19 Thread Greg Schuman
On Apr 19, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Huels, Chris wrote: We have a deployment of over 1500 Meru access point connected to a mixture of 16 3000 and 4100 controllers. Over the years we have had numerous problems. Code upgrades may fix the immediate problem, but then cause a new batch of issues. For

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MERU wireless

2011-04-19 Thread Johnson, Neil M
> Meru: > - What version of code are you running Just upgraded to 4.0-150. So far it seems fine. It resolved the administration interface lock ups we were seeing. > - What style of AP's do you use We have mix of 208's and 311's. > - Do you use different style access points within the same air

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless Network Issue

2005-08-19 Thread Ruiz, Mike
[WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless Network Issue Greeting, I am a Net Admin for Franklin Road Academy in Nashville. Over the summer I completed a wireless upgrade by installing 22 Meru 201 access points and Meru's 1100 series controller in our high school. Our total population of wireless us

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless Network Issue

2005-08-19 Thread Philippe Hanset
A few directions to search for: -try if the latency occurs with a different Wireless device (in your posting, it seems that every device is a Fujitsu) -Isolate as much as you can: test when no one is on the network with a Fujitsu, with another Wireless device -We have seen latency in classroom

[WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless AP's & Intel Wireless Cards

2006-12-11 Thread Emily Harris
I'm late to the discussion, but wanted to throw in my two cents. We recently deployed Meru in one dormitory with version 3.1.4-33. We had multiple complaints of low or spotty connectivity. In most cases, a driver update resolved the issue. In one case, we could not get the Intel card to wor

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless AP's & Intel Wireless Cards

2006-12-05 Thread debbie fligor
On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:18, Jack Vizelter wrote: Recently, our users have been having issues in connecting to our Meru Wireless AP's on campus. These users were using the latest Intel Pro wireless cards on their laptops. The fix that Meru support suggested of disabling the power save mode on the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless AP's & Intel Wireless Cards

2006-12-05 Thread Ruiz, Mike
ebbie fligor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 12/5/2006 1:34 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless AP's & Intel Wireless Cards On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:18, Jack Vizelter wrote: > Recently, our users have been having issues in connectin

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless AP's & Intel Wireless Cards

2006-12-11 Thread Brandon Pinsky
Any updates on this? Thanks, === BJ Pinsky Manager, Network Engineering Project Mgmt. Network Infrastructure, Columbia University IT (CUIT) 212.854.7962 On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:34 PM, debbie fligor wrote: On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:18, Jack Vizelter wrote: Recently, our users have been having

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless AP's & Intel Wireless Cards

2006-12-11 Thread Ruiz, Mike
t: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru Wireless AP's & Intel Wireless Cards Any updates on this? Thanks, === BJ Pinsky Manager, Network Engineering Project Mgmt. Network Infrastructure, Columbia University IT (CUIT) 212.854.7962 On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:34 PM, debbie fligor wrote: > On Dec 5, 200