Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Jethro R Binks
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Kevin Ehlers wrote: We're looking at deploying WPA/WPA2 and we think that something similar to XpressConnect from CloudPath would be very beneficial. However, in searching I have been unable to determine if there are any vendors offering a similar service. Does

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Gogan, James P
Like others, I'll throw in my $.02 here and indicate that not just something similar but, in fact, XpressConnect from CloudPath has INDEED been very beneficial here on our campus. With the diversity of desktop configurations and systems that we have, the seamless configuration of Windows

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Reynolds, Walter
So for those using this how many need to use the TTLS supplicant setup? For those that do how do you handle if a user is using a built in supplicant that has profiles for other locations? -- Walter Reynolds University of Michigan On Apr 22, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Gogan, James P go...@email.unc.edu

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Dickson
We use Cloudpath for our EAP-TTLS 802.1x wireless network. We're very pleased with how smoothly it works with virtually all Win and Mac OS variants. It even works with iPhone/iPad and Ubuntu linux. To handle TTLS in Windows we purchased a licensed copy SecureW2 and pre-configured the parameters

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Philippe Hanset
Mike, Would you use XpressConnect if your campus were EAP-PEAP compliant, or would you publish instructions and skip the cost of XpressConnect? In other words, is it so good and makes the life so easy (help desk calls) that even with a EAP-PEAP system you would spend the money Philippe

Limiting Bandwidth on Autonomous APs

2010-04-22 Thread Urrea, Nick
We are experiencing a problem in our dorm where one wireless user will use all of the Available bandwidth on an 802.11g Autonomous AP's radio. We are currently using a Bluecoat Packeteer packet shaper to shape traffic at the Internet. The problem I have seen is with user on-line backups, either to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Reynolds, Walter
Just want to confirm as last time I checked it did remove some third party wireless managers because they did not play nice. You are saying that they do not have to delete any now, correct? Walt Reynolds University of Michigan (734) 615-9438 On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Michael Dickson

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Dickson
The current Cloudpath build allows us to choose to remove or let be any third party supplicants. Mike Michael Dickson 413.545.9639 Network Analyst Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Craig Pluchinsky
We had the same argument here at our campus. Some people thought that we could just publish the steps to setup the wireless network on out website and save the cost of XpressConnect. We chose to go with XpressConnect and have been very happy with it. It was money well spent. Our help desk

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Methven, Peter J
We are EAP-PEAP compliant, and had gone down the route of documenting setup instructions for as many os' as we could think of; including phones, linux (top 5 distros each month), windows, mac etc. However we found this wasn't sufficient to meet student's expectations for it to just work,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Alternatives to XpressConnect

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Dickson
True enough about the drivers. Cloudpath doesn't check for or update those (it will check for the correct OS rev, e.g. Win SP2+). And we haven't found a happy solution for Lenovo laptops which appear to use a quasi-proprietary version of Windows Wireless Manager. Mike