Hey Community! I'm excited to share something we've been working on that I think will really resonate with many of you managing wireless networks today. We just released the Cisco State of Wireless Report 2026, based on insights from over 6,000 wirel...
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Hi folks. I recently started working at a small local school system as a technician on their IT team. We have a Meraki setup here that spans 5 school buildings here in town. Our Meraki Network is pretty basic, as far as I can gather and see from the ...
Resolved! WLC 9800 series design - FlexConnect
Hello,In the Cat.9800 series datasheet - controllers support maximum 100 FlexConnect APs per site.Can someone explain me this limit more pragmatically ?Is it only a best practice or is it a configuration blockage? Somethings like flexconnect profile ...
We have 6 pairs of 9800-80 on HA, and we noticed that on all pairs there is a process (SAMsgThread) that runs every 15 minutes that affects the 9800 controller CPU. That process SAMsgThread is the responsible for Smart Licensing operations. Depending...
Resolved! Cisco WLC 9800-40
Dear All, I need to know if the following AP model are supported by WLC 9800-40: AIR-LAP1142N-E-K9AIR-LAP1262N-E-K9 Looking the compatibility matrix I see that should be support starting from the IOS XE 3.2.0SE to the last release? Is it right?https:...
Resolved! WLC or Switch DHCP
I have 5508 WLCs which have the DHCP servers configured under the SSID interface. Local switching is in operation. Under the SSID config, neither DHCP Server Override or DHCP Addr. Assignment are selected Under the L3 Vlan on the switch, we have IP h...
I was looking into wireless connection problems with a client and saw high utilization on the 2.4Ghz band. I thought it had to do with channel interference so I moved the channels around the APs seemed to improve slightly for a day but its back up to...
Hello,I was wondering best practices when it came to this feature for Mesh on the 9800's. Do I enable this or disable this? What would be use cases for enabling/disabling it? I have a simple P2P bridge where I have one AP set as a RAP and the othe...
Dear Cisco Community, I am trying to undesrtand the best practices and the best policies to deal with Rogue APs, and many doubts emerged. Let me just clarify that I am just a beginer. Under Rogue Policies on the Wireless Controller, the AP Authenti...
HiI got a classroom with pitched roof. I wonder if mounting the AP like in the attached picture would negativly affect the signal (I mean mounting the AP not 90° degrees)What options do I have to be able to mount the AP 90°?
Resolved! WLC
HiIs it possible to copy a config from one WLC and paste to another WLC same model and version.? any caveats with this method anything to be aware of.?? Thanks
Hi, we just migrated our 2702 and 2802 models to the 9124s. We have our controller in prime, and can see the new APs, but they come up as "not registered". I have been looking for some SNMP configs in the controller configuration settings for the ac...
Has anyone had any luck with adding a background image on a custom Meraki hosted splash page, or do I have to host it externally to facilitate that function? I'm hoping I'm just using the wrong syntax, but I can't seem to get it to apply one.We'd lik...
Hi Guys, We have a branch office, there are several APs which are working in Flexconnect mode. Corporate SSID is bridged locally, others are tunneled to the WLC. APs reach WLC through a S2S VPN tunnel created between central and branch firewalls. The...
Resolved! 1850E AP unable to join C9115 EWC
Hi All, Existing using 1852E as Mobility Express, with version 8.10.185Purchase C9115 EWC as the new Controller, with version 9.16.4. Based on the Compatibility Matrix, 9.16.4 is able to support 8.10.185 https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless...
Can someone from Meraki share the formula used to translate lat,lon in meters on the geo-referenced floorplan?We need to place APs on the floorplan. From the API we can get the vertex position of the floorplan and the scale but cannot find a way to c...
