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This is a quickie article: Please note: UPDATE AT BOTTOM the issue has been resolved at this time. The article will remain as such for documentation purposes. Cisco Meraki has been scaling back the throughput speed for various hardware firewall products including the Z1, MX60/w,MX64/w, MX80. A user on Reddit has reported the drama in the following thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/meraki/comments/41laj8/did_the_z1s_just_get_a_bandwidth_lock_pushed_down/ Sure enough I've done a speed test just now and here's the result: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5010989908   Here's a result prior to this: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4596230047 An employee on Spiceworks forums has said this: However this statement does not seem to be true on my connection. Earlier when I first bought mine I got an upgrade that brought mine UP from 50Mbps to 80Mbps stateful firewall throughput. Why they would retract this and bring it down is beyond me. It's not like i...

Review note update: Please see this: http://remixedcat.tumblr.com/post/109896334147/issues-that-amped-wireless-needs-to-address

1) Intro 2) Features 3)Key Feature Tour 4) Setup 5) Wireless configuration 6) Throughput tests (Wireless/Wired) 7) Mixed connections stress test 8) Closing Notes Intro: The Meraki MX60W is a enterprise level office security appliance that is a robust full featured enterprise router/firewall that is affordable for small to medium businesses, has lots of features, is cloud managed so it can be controlled and administrated from any computer with an internet connection, and can tolerate a lot of heavy usage that enterprises require.  Features: The MX60W features the following: 1) Stateful firewall supporting 20 concurrent users @ 100Mbps 2) Layer 7 firewall controls with tons of site blocking presets to help block against P2P, sports, social media, video streaming sites and more as well as custom hostnames and expressions. 3) 4 wired Gigabit LAN ports 4) 3 x 3.5dBi  dual band external SMA antennas with 30dBm (1W!) ...