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The Dirt Cheap Last Mile
Meraki talks big, carries a small box
The Christian Science Monitor is the latest to profile Meraki, a hardware manufacturer who aims to drastically reduce the cost of last mile connectivity. Meraki's mesh networking gear has quickly appealed to everyone from low-income housing to ISPs looking to add Wi-Fi functionality, though the company did run into a PR grinder last October when they left beta and drastically ramped up the cost of hardware. The CSM notes that in its second year, Meraki has yet to advertise their services.
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TheMG
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TheMG

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Upon reflection, I do not wish to post.

JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA

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ha

I wonder what makes them think they can get this to work when many bigger and smaller companies can't. I would say " a waist to investors money". But good luck.

NJxxxJon
2 0 1 7 Mmm Here We go man!
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NJxxxJon

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Heres a tip

Goto your local library or wawa. The WiFi Is F R E E.

Transmaster
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Cheyenne, WY

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And here I thought

this was a requiem for Dirt Cheap Drives

John Galt6
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John Galt6

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Re: And here I thought

said by Transmaster:

this was a requiem for Dirt Cheap Drives
Them were the days...!

: sigh :

(It's a SF Bay Area thing...)


footballdude
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footballdude to Transmaster

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to Transmaster
said by Transmaster:

this was a requiem for Dirt Cheap Drives
Around here we have Dirt Cheap Cigs and Beer. "Because the more she drinks, the better you look."
qworster
join:2001-11-25
Bryn Mawr, PA

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Meraki Rocks!

Meraki rocks...and now DD-WRT is available for their units as well...
theeinstein
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join:2003-07-31
Fernandina Beach, FL

theeinstein

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Meraki

As a user of the Beta and now working into the Public Release. I can say that Meraki's lack of customer support and interaction through the change over along with their unwillingness to listen to the core users (forum) who assisted them in improving the product for months during the beta.

It is very discouraging to say the least!
jlsjrf29
join:2002-05-12
San Jose, CA

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Re: Meraki

said by theeinstein:

As a user of the Beta and now working into the Public Release. I can say that Meraki's lack of customer support and interaction through the change over along with their unwillingness to listen to the core users (forum) who assisted them in improving the product for months during the beta.

It is very discouraging to say the least!
thats a serious problem. I too have meraki and shut the all down except 2....I wont bother investing or posting on there forum since a few seem to post nonsense to score brownie points as a forum helper.......they really messed up when they attempted to push adverstise on my system without my permission since i own the equipment and without user input...I dont think they will be around long with the way they are handling things. ...doing stuff quiet results in disapparence. I give meraki equipment 3 thumbs down and Service 5 thumbs down. MORE POWER is needed not a 60mw radios that dont do the job they are intended for.
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bump

bump sorry

John Galt6
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John Galt6

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Late To The Game...

...for CSM as far as reporting on Meraki.

They are history...toast.

But history repeats itself...so keep a half-open eye.

patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY

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Re: Late To The Game...

Sounds like another FON competitor. All these fools don't get anything requiring "WiFi" has to be fed from somewhere? The only point of this is to support wifi freeloaders. If an area has no Cable/DSL in the first place how the hell do you plan to have wifi? T1s, at $13 per 56K of bandwidth assuming a CHEAP T1 of $350 a month? Dialup is cheaper.

Intranets? Lets set up a wiki for each mesh, that has no connection to outside word. Now we sound like the internet in Burma »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My ··· Wide_Web ?

Either the govt allocates high power 10s/100s of mhz of bandwidth of these internet services or anything wireless is useless. Usually if a area doesn't have broadband, it will have poor Cell coverage since Cell companies will see the same reasons to no deploy as DSL/Cable. Wimax will come LAST to the areas that don't have DSL/Cable. If my friend who has no Cable/DSL, also doesn't have Sprint cell coverage right now, why on earth would he have Sprint Wimax? Verizon and Sprint aren't done overlaying EVDO for christs sake, why does anyone think Wimax will solve anything? Anyone have a solution other than forced by govt/done by govt buildouts?