Comments on: Meraki promises. Meraki delivers.

By: brad

brad — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:52:48 +0000

@dean : There is a google maps mash-up of registered Meraki devices at http://icanhazmeraki.net/
The mash-up relies on Meraki owners to manually register their devices however so there are likely to be many more Meraki devices in Sydney then are shown. Zooming into Sydney shows that there is a Meraki device in Cronulla… and many in the city of Sydney. Happy wireless sharing!

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:43:29 +0000

How vast is this network in Sydney? I am in the southern suburbs….how does one find out how many people would have meraki if any?

By: kevin

kevin — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:24:53 +0000

Does each repeater halve the bandwidth?

Thanks for the write up.

By: brad

brad — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:12:45 +0000

Hi Martin. It would appear that regardless of whether neighbouring meraki networks are of type pro or standard, they will mesh. In the same way that neighbouring networks will mesh: this post talks about it a little: http://forums.meraki.com/viewtopic.php?t=2298. The networks though will remain separately administrable via the dashboard.

BTW I discovered a great facility that enables you to move your gateways and repeaters around in order to achieve the highest quality network connection: Meraki Setup Assistant (you will first need to connect to your meraki network)

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:25:22 +0000

Hey mate,

Well done on the whole ’sharing the web’. Muchos kudos.

I am thinking of setting up something myself (using the pro set up), and have a question about the whole mesh side of things. Just like you, I will be using any cash earned to pay for hardware, but I was wondering what happens when you have a pro network and a non pro network operating side by side? Do they mesh? how does this work?

By: brad

brad — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:16:36 +0000

Thanks for your comment Purana… 25kb/s outbound is quite a low outbound bandwidth (sounds like a very slow dialup connection) - are you working in bits or bytes? I assume the Meraki dashboard is measuring its bandwidth in kilobits per second (kb/s or kbps), not kilobytes per second (kB/s). That being the case, if you are after a setting of 10 kilobytes per second (10 kB/s) that set the Meraki bandwidth controller to 80kb/s. (using 8 bits to a byte)

By: purana

purana — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:41:03 +0000

The only thing that annoyed me was that the outbound bandwidth limit couldn’t be adjusted to anything lower then 20kb/s. Which sucks, cause I only have 25kb/s outbound on my line. I was hoping to set it to about 10kb/s minimum.

Hope they change this soon.

By: brad

brad — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:20:27 +0000

[Rainer said] “What text do you use on your splash page to reassure people accessing your network that you are the real deal and won’t scam their CC details?”

Hi Rainer. Glad to hear from you. Hopefully the Meraki logo(s) on the splash page is enough to instill confidence in your network. I have since moved from a PRO edition network to STANDARD as I felt the network would grow faster using this model. I will obviously be up for a large sum when it comes time to upgrade, if I upgrade. My splash page currently looks like this:

By: Rainer

Rainer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:58:03 +0000

link to my network…
http://public.meraki.com/network/thecp/

By: Rainer

Rainer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:54:07 +0000

Hi Brad - just bought my first meraki (pro) and have been tinkering with how to best set it up. What text do you use on your splash page to reassure people accessing your network that you are the real deal and won’t scam their CC details? Would be very keen to see what you’ve got.

Also - I’ve been trying to post the details of my network to icanhazmeraki.net without success - any tips?