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Chrome to Phone an Excellent Android feature.

August 6, 2010

I recently updated my HTC Desire phone to the new Android version 2.2, also known as Froyo, short for Frozen Yoghurt. All the Android releases are currently named after confectionery, Doughnut, Eclair, Cupcake – in case you were wondering! One of the really useful new features of Android 2.2 which I have found is the ‘Chrome to Phone‘ [...]

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The Meraki Outdoor Unit.

July 14, 2010

Excellent news, this morning the Meraki Outdoor Unit we ordered for testing and demonstrations yesterday has arrived. It comes packaged in a nice Meraki box with some cute little birds on the front, signifying that it is for outdoor use I guess. On the back is a picture of a city skyline with little green dots showing [...]

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Meraki Outdoor Unit on it’s way!

July 12, 2010

Today we ordered one of the Meraki Outdoor Units. This will be for general testing and demonstration purposes. All being well it should be here in time for my site visit/demo tomorrow morning. Watch this space!

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Advantages of the Meraki Cloud Controller.

July 7, 2010

The Meraki wireless mesh equipment is controlled by a ‘cloud’ controller. Unlike other more traditional wireless vendors such as Cisco and Aruba, their is no expensive controller hardware to install and maintain on your site.  This means updates to your wireless network can be pushed out without your intervention should you wish. Meraki can provide [...]

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Meraki Mesh on the Field.

July 3, 2010

Today I thought it would be fun to have a walk to the field near our house and see if we could pick up the wireless network from the antenna you see above. It’s a flat panel type aerial with about 16dbi of gain. Feeding this via a length of Andrews LDF-450 coaxial cable is [...]

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Meraki on the windowsill.

June 26, 2010

Here you can see a Meraki indoor unit tucked away in the corner of an upstairs windowsill, hiding inconspicuously behind the curtains! All it needs is a power connection and to be able to pick up a wireless signal from another nearby Meraki unit. This particular unit is one of the older indoor units, the [...]

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New Server too!

June 25, 2010

Following on from our post yesterday regarding the switch to our new website design, I omitted to say that we have also taken the opportunity to move the site to a new host. We were originally using a shared hosting package from a large company. We have now switched to a VPS, virtual private server, slightly more [...]

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New Ubertechs Website.

June 23, 2010

Today we went live with our new Ubertechs Ltd website design! Pictured here you can see the old design which served us well for the past 5 years or more. We wanted to achieve a design that was pleasing on the eye, had a clean look and was easy for us to keep up to [...]

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Our Meraki MR11 is installed.

June 20, 2010

We managed to get a few jobs done at the new Ubertechs workshop over the past few days, one of which was the installation of our new Meraki MR11 Enterprise wireless access point. The MR11, like it’s dual radio cousin, the MR14, takes its power over the ethernet connection, meaning you need an injector at [...]

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Meraki Wireless Access Point Arrived.

June 17, 2010

Today we took delivery of a Meraki MR11 access point. This is a sophisticated 802.11n meshing wireless access-point. We will be using this at our new workshop and for field testing and surveys. Some of the specs of the unit are: 802.11n MIMO provides up to six times a/b/g speeds with wider, more reliable coverage [...]

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