Update at last! Sadly not yet for the Aerohive.
This time it's for the Meru system. So far it's been a nightmare. The setup took a few days because the original engineer basically ballsed up the setup. After another engineer came in and fixed his issues, they still hadn't managed to get a few of the IPs correct, which we ended up fixing for them. After all that mess, which has been ongoing since last week on Thursday (it is now Thursday today), the guest wireless access still does not work properly, something which so far, only Aruba and Meraki seem to have gotten right.
The setup for Meru puts me off, but if an engineer can come in and fix the problem in one fell swoop, that's fine by me, so far though, I'm not happy.
But I'll drop the performance numbers, as they speak for themselves:
3GB single file
Meru AP 832e (.11AC / .11N)
Peak: IT Office
Link speed - 866Mbps / 216Mbps
Peak transfer - 40.4MBps / 9.0MBps
Utilization - 44% / 55%
Worst: Quad / Entrance
Link speed - 13Mbps / 10Mbps
Peak transfer - 460KBps / 730KBps
Utilization - 18% / 40%
Max Distance - 52ft / 104ft
Interestingly enough, the AC has no N failover. Once the AC device lost connection to the AC signal, it just cut out entirely instead of connecting to the N signal it can see (we know it can see it as far as 104ft), which showcased an interesting bug with the Intel 7260 Dual band AC adapter and Lenovo's E540 mouse trackpad. For some reason when it loses signal, the trackpad holds left click on whatever you last clicked on, rending the trackpad useless until you restart it.
Aerohive data incoming soon if I can get time. The Aerohive AP does not work with guest wireless either, and their support just didn't help us at all. However, the Aerohive AP has become the perfect bandaid for our network of dumb standalone AP's. Wherever we put it in place of one of our broken, it's a total champ, broadcasts to any device within a nice range, and just does its job for plain old wireless. Needless to say, even though we're not buying any Aerohive kit because of its inherent problems with VLANing, it's actually a good old blunt instrument to get a job done.