Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Indiana moved from 1500 fat AP's to 3000 controller-based AP's over this past summer. Overall, the conversion went very smoothly for the users, if a bit of a strain on the engineering staff. In the process we added a new SSID with 802.1x and another for guests. We left the legacy VPN-protecte

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Vista and Windows Updates...

2008-11-20 Thread Brian J David
Hector, This sound like the issue we ran into. Check the DNS Client services and make sure they are started. Brian Brian J David Network Systems Engineer Boston College _ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hector J

Vista and Windows Updates...

2008-11-20 Thread Hector J Rios
We've seen issues sporadically with Windows updates on Vista machines. After the updates are applied, user opens browser and the browser does not go anywhere. This happens both on the wireless and wired interface. It doesn't matter whether we use IE or Mozilla or Safari, they all behave similarly.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Justin Dover
We basically have the same setup and couldn't be more happy with the Cisco solution and the LWAPP. It makes wireless easy. With the Cisco AP conv. tool I upgraded all of my APs at one time. Took no time at all. Justin Dover Harpeth Hall School 615-346-0082 The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Consti

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Timothy Payne
We were faced with a combination project at Macalester. We were bringing our new athletic complex online (35 APs) and decided at that time to bring in a centrally managed system and convert the rest of campus at the same time. Our base wireless infrastructure was already Cisco thick APs, and the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Daniel Eklund
We're in the midst of a phased upgrade from Proxim to Meru. We began about a year ago and have deployed 700 Meru AP311s across campus. We expect to install about another 400 or so over the next 6 months to complete the project. The focus of the initial installation was to service classrooms, lib

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Jason Appah
Man I wish I had your budget, were about to pull the trigger on an aruba deploy of 80 radios... On 11/20/08 9:07 AM, "Philippe Hanset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Our latest strategy was phased ovehaul (but it might change!), >> one building at a time with some tricky VLAN trunking when >> bui

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Philippe Hanset
> Our latest strategy was phased ovehaul (but it might change!), > one building at a time with some tricky VLAN trunking when > buidling are close to each other. That was "buildings" To give you a timiline idea: We plan on overhauling the entire main campus (120 buildings, 1500 APs) in less than

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Philippe Hanset
Our latest strategy was phased ovehaul (but it might change!), one building at a time with some tricky VLAN trunking when buidling are close to each other. First phase:just replace existing b/g APs with new n APs using existing Cat5 (upgrade power injectors and

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Toivo Voll
As far as the user experience is concerned, a single overhaul may be better. That way users aren't faced with different SSIDs / logon procedures depending on building / floor / area. Of course, if you use a common captive web portal or such this may not be as big of an issue. However, controller ba

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Jonn Martell
Hi Ryan, When we deployed at the first EDU, we installed two cable drops per location to facilitate an inlay of another technology (at that time b was deployable and we know that a 5GHz was just a matter of time). We also added additional drops to plan for 5GHz (about 40% more which didn't have A

Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Ryan Lininger
Good Day Everyone, I'm currently looking into a wireless infrastructure upgrade and was wondering how others have approached this challenge. I'm interested in the phased vs overhaul debate. We currently have a campus wide mixed vendor 802.11b/g environment and would like to go to a controlle

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless coverage for bus riders

2008-11-20 Thread Todd M. Hall
Some of our busses have wireless devices on them to track location. In testing for this, we outfitted some of the bus routes with Cisco mesh coverage. I never tested it from within a bus, but we traveled in a car with just pings going and we were able to stay connected without any problems (sp

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless coverage for bus riders

2008-11-20 Thread Lee H Badman
Thanks, Matt- I knew I couldn't be alone in my lunacy:) And again, this is more of a conversational exercise in what we can do within our constraints, if the busses were not allowed to be touched. Lee -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mail

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless coverage for bus riders

2008-11-20 Thread Barber, Matt
Hi Lee, We have done very limited testing of this on our campus. A few of the groups we have taken on tours (the same one we gave you actually!) have kept a laptop open and connected during the entire time. We were probably driving at around 15-25 MPH through the campus. They haven't done much

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless coverage for bus riders

2008-11-20 Thread Ringgold, Clint
Lee, I have really only see it actually work "well" with 3g to 802.11 routers. I found a router with a cigarette outlet, QoS, VPN, Firewall and 3G. I think it was from Billion. I guess I could find it if you want to know more about it. I was thinking that something like this could work if t