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Last Thursday, Ben Chambers and Jessica showed up on my doorstep from Meraki Networks with APs in hand. I was psyched! We were about to hook up an outdoor node to the Meraki San Francisco trial.
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They brought over a Meraki outdoor AP, a toolbox and a lot of cable and got right to work. We went up on the roof to check it out and find a spot to put it. Then we went indoors and talked about how/where to bring the cable in. The unit is powered by a proprietary POE (Power over Ethernet) injector which I plugged and hooked up to my switch.
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Ben went back up onto the roof and connect the AP to a plumbing vent pipe. It came with what appears to be a 12dbi antenna (I will check and get back with the details).
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It got link and pulled a DHCP address from my home router and started broadcasting the SSID FreeTheNet and we were done.
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We chatted awhile and then they left. The were super nice and obviously loved their jobs. Later the unit started upgrading itself and is now running a newer OS than what it originally had. I checked that evening and found I was up on the website at http://sf.meraki.net/ but unfortunately none of my neighbors had a Meraki node close enough to attach to mine. I am going to drop in on Ritual Coffee later this week and get them to join the network as well as some of my neighbors.
Hi, my name is Carlos. I got outdoor mini too...just thought I would drop in a line.
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Maybe we can have coffee too. And yes Ben and Jessica were soo nice. Funny thing I ran into Jessica today, and she gave me a hug and all. Well talk to you soon.
Bruce, I have been noticing the Meraki posters around the Mission District lately and thought the project would make an interesting post on sf.metblogs.com, where I am one of the regular bloggers. In addition to the inteview with them I am trying to get, I would be interested in talking to you about your experience with them.
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