For All Those Who Deal With It & Wifi Stuff

For those who haven`t seen the wifi access points from Cisco........

https://meraki.cisco.com/

They`re rather awesome; and wholly set up from the cloud - the units are just plug & play.

IF you have a VAT number, and want to spend an hour on their free webinar about the stuff, they`ll send you a FREE unit.

http://www.uk.insight.com/en-gb/productinfo/wireless-networking/0001696254-00000001?utm_source=Google+Shopping&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Feed&src=000093&&cm_mmc=Google+Shopping-_-Feed-_-Feed-_-Feed&gclid=CMzL2NmBz74CFbShtAodOmoAjg

( with 3 yrs licence included )

Datasheet: https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_datasheet_MR16.pdf

I`ve fitted a few of these now - the coverage, speed and controllability is impressive - as is the way you can set the ssid`s and layer 3 or 7 firewall rules.

If anyone is interested in £ 500 worth of kit for an hour`s time in front of the computer,.........?

Who wants to rent their vat number to me for an hour? :C

I thought you had one... or are you just Ltd. ?

NozSpark said:

I thought you had one... or are you just Ltd. ?

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just ltd, want to try and avoid the hassle of vat if I can,  :|

I am still trying to understand what a £500 wi fi access point, that seems to rely on some paid for "cloud" service to work, is going to do for me, that my free ISP supplied wireless router won't?

Clearly I am not the target market for such things, I just don't "get" it.

steptoe said:

Who wants to rent their vat number to me for an hour? :C

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Sorry, using ours to get a unit!

Also gmail, hotmail yahoo etc email addy's are no use, you need a domain email addy linked to the company it seems

Well I have a domain email, but no VAT number..

I also have very little interest

same here i havent got much interest to be honest i dont seem to get what all this is about

Oh, and you have to watch the thing live it seems, and they are terrible timings!

Interest or not,

I just like free things,    

Right.

I watched it this morning - if you`re into this stuff, it IS informative........

Dave - the stuff isn`t primarily aimed at the domestic market - We`ve fitted two units in a large 17th century pub, and it floods the whole building ( and most of the car park) with signal.

Anyone with a wifi enabled device is logged by the system, as either a first time visitor, or returnee. You can see a google map of the premises, with exactly where everyone is in the building, and what they`re using to access the wifi. You can either charge for access, put up a splash screen, etc,   

PLUS:

You can lock down bandwdth to individual items, or from types of site ( social network, P2P, streaming etc) ; and / or lock out individual devices, either from the whole wifi, or from specified sites ( e.g. don`t want staff going onto faceachebook? easy.)

PLUS

The system can be spread across multiple locations - ALL controlled from one tablet or PC, anywhere in the world. You NEVER have to set foot in the building.

As for the VAT issue - I`m using my client`s VAT number, and its been accepted

n.b It was pointed out that some peeps couldn`t find the link to the free AP............

https://meraki.cisco.com/freeap

KME, so we have registered for the webinar, when are we asked for vat details?

Cheers

might have to take a look at that later

steptoe said:

Who wants to rent their vat number to me for an hour? :C

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you can rent mine. it'll cost you 1x router and a trip up north to install it. on the plus side, you get a free 1 hour seminar out of it, and after that you should know how to set it up for me

steptoe said:

Interest or not,

I just like free things,  

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So you can sell it on ebay?

Andy™ said:

might have to take a look at that later

you can rent mine. it'll cost you 1x router and a trip up north to install it. on the plus side, you get a free 1 hour seminar out of it, and after that you should know how to set it up for me

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ProDave said:

So you can sell it on ebay?

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nope,

i'll chance me luck wi tha geordie lassies, 

For a bonus..............

Their "systems manager"; to control all your wireless devices, is free to use for anyone......

I`m not certain how much use it is to me, but I`m sure it does summat useful