It's my understanding that Google is somehow involved with this product.
I'm guessing that there is some form of data mining involved with them.
Don't know it, but I'd not be at all surprised. And why else would they
HAVE to phone home in order to work? Something with them is fishy. Nice
units or not, I don't think I'll put them in my network anytime soon.
Might use them for a cheap/easy paid hotspot in some parks or something
though.
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Kerns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA
We have one installed as a free hotspot for now while we test. As a
hotspot it is working great. The issue I have with the units is from what
I see they MUST "call home" to get configuration and will not allow data
or clients to pass until it does. Also I believe they are using some sort
of tunnel, I can tracert from one to a public site, but if I try to ping
one of my AP in my network or SSH into one it fails.
I think these would be great if we could install the control software on
one of our servers, but I don't want any of my clients internet
connections to be controlled by a 3rd party, or not have access because
the Meraki site is either not available or running slow as it seemed to be
last Friday.
Tim Kerns
CV-Access, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Main Street USA
The Meraki nodes are configured through the central web dashboard. All
payments go through Meraki, and they get their cut (I'm not sure what
that
is). The access controls are just lists of MAC addresses to be allowed or
bypass the captive portal. There's no support for RADIUS.
You *could* extend a Mikrotik hotspot with Meraki, though.
On 4/19/07, Smith, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, but can we as wisps use the meraki units on our own ?
i.e. can we use it to extend mikrotik hotspots out through a mesh of
merakii (hah!)
or, do we have to pay Meraki to use their hotspot stuff ?
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Dylan Oliver
Primaverity, LLC
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