Ah yes, that's the real difference between Xirrus and Meraki, the Meraki stuff can be configured in the Cloud.  I have a server management application for the Xirrus kit, so it's all controlled on-site.  To be honest, the regularity in which our fibre internet goes down, I'm not fussed that I can't control my kit in the Cloud.

Would either of these offer point to point stuff?  I'm getting ready to start researching stuff to connect 3 buildings with PTP wireless.

I believe both do.  I know for sure that Xirrus market their stuff for that exact purpose as they sell lots in buildings that can't have a lot of cabling in them.  At our place we only use them as access points off of standard cabled infrastructure, but they like to replace switch cabinets with their things if that's what you're after.

Sweet, I should have time to start some checking later today.  I'll give them a look!  Thanks!

One of the (admittedly rather few) advantages of living in Hull is that i don't have to deal with BT. I've only had problems with the KC line at my mum's house a few times, but their tech support is good and the one time we've needed an engineer visit he came promptly and at a convenient time.

They can be cunts in other ways though. Such as they don't let any other ISP's use their network, so if you want internet in Hull you have but one option. Plus the packages they offer are pretty shit.

That's the thing about KC, I'm sure many moons ago they were seen as being brilliant because they weren't BT, but if there's no competition or other options then you're stuck if what they offer is shit.

The prices are a bit rubbish.

In further plusnet and BT are shit news, I called Plusnet to get them to actually put the ADSL order on and called them the next day to make sure they were actually doing it:

"Yes, the order was placed yesterday and the install has been booked for next week."
what.
"The person you spoke to earlier put on another fibre order."

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Now instead of moaning about your shitty connection speed you can moan about shitty servers limiting your download speed. \o/

A newsgroup download is only going at 3MBps what the fuck is this shit :@

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