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Resolved! AP's showing as Wi-Fi 5 and not Wi-Fi 6
I did a survey using Ekahau for an area serviced by 9130 AP's on a 9800-40 WLC. For some reason the AP's are showing up as Wi-Fi 5 and not Wi-Fi 6 when looking at the 5GHz band. The 6GHz radios are disabled currently. Any ideas as to why this is ha...
Resolved! WLC 5508 migration
Hi, I have a site that will be migrating from a WLC 5508 to C9800-L, and my question is if the configuration on the 5508 can be migrated to the C9800. Thanks
access point model air-1562e has four antenna ports 1, 2, 3, 4antenna model air-ant2588p3m has three connections B, C, Awhere do the three antenna connection go to the four access point connection?
Hello all,We've been using a 9800L controller for a couple of years now and we have several WIFI networks working well off of it. For an internal network where we use a combination of MAC filtering for device auth, and 802.1x user auth. We also h...
I have a cisco 2500 wireless lan controller software version 8.0.152.0 with 60 access points that are model AIR-LAP1142. I know these products aren't supported but I do believe there is a simple fix for my problem. Out of the 60 access points 5 aren'...
We're trying to get some Nintendo switches on our Meraki wireless network to support Teen programs my organization is running, only problem is that none of us can get any of the devices to connect to any of our SSIDs. It appears to take the PSK and i...
We have two SSO pairs of 9800-80 WLCs running 17.9.4. This semester is the first time we've used them in production (we are a university). For now, we only have 1,400 APs on each. I decided to check the WNCD processes and found that wncmgrd is using ...
Hello Professionals,I have two wireless controllers and I'm about to replace one to another.WLC-A: Cisco WLC 2504 (8.3.x) - IP: 10.10.10.49WLC-B: Cisco WLC9800 (17.9.4a) IP: 10.10.10.50Two WLCs are not HA. It works independently.These two WLCs has sa...
We have many sites, all with the same SSID.When Apple macOS laptops join this one problematic site, it's failing to obtain an IP unless rebooted. Looking at a packet capture taken from a laptop, it sends an 'DHCP Request' to renew its invalid/previou...
Hi Gents, When configuring a 802.1x SSID on a C9800 in 17.9.3 you can select the Security -> Layer 2 - Layer 2 security mode. You can choose from : WPA + WPA2 - and only check the WPA2 policy checkbox. WPA2 + WPA3 - and only check the WPA2 policy ch...
Hello,I have two MR28 and 2 SSIDs. One PSK-WPA2 and another one open through splash page.In Location Analytics for the SSID open I can see the number of passersby, but all others are zero. No info in engagement and loyalty.Is any config missing to ge...
This may be a beginner question but I would like to understand the reason as to why it doesn't work. We have a bridge with two MR70's and on the remote side we have a MS125. We wanted to put a MR33 on the remote side for wireless. Why is a layer 3 sw...
Hi Can you possible assist I have a strange issue where as we have 2 builds of laptops onsiteWe have recently refreshed our old access points from Meraki MR 53 to Meraki MR 57 everything was working fine with MR 53But we are now encountering an iss...
I see there are license selling online in US. Can I buy that so I can use it in Asia countries? Thanks.Joe
Hello Everyone,I have a challenge related to the WLC 5500 and associated APs (1600, 2600, and 2800). I need to change the WLAN subnet from 172.22.0.0/16 to 10.6.15.0/24. The old WLC management IP is 172.22.243.223, and the new one will be 10.6.15.10....
