We are looking at how we install wireless in our Residence Halls for
coverage. Currently we only place access points in the hallways, but
are looking at moving them into the rooms for better coverage. We were
wondering if anyone else has put the access points in the rooms and if
they have
On 12/19/2012 8:36 AM, David Robertson wrote:
We are looking at how we install wireless in our Residence Halls for
coverage. Currently we only place access points in the hallways, but
are looking at moving them into the rooms for better coverage. We were
wondering if anyone else has put the
David,
Two summers ago we installed about 500 Access Points in our Residence
Halls. About 90% of them were installed directly in student rooms. The
remaining 10% went above ceiling tiles in the hallway. We did this
primarily b/c our Res Life staff was concerned about damage to the APs
and
We did this summer. We contracted out to a company to improve the wireless in
our Res Halls, and the solution they came up with was to install them in the
rooms. We have about 2000 students living on campus and 800 access points,
mostly in bedrooms, for those 2000 students.
Of those, we have
Dear David
We installed Aps in the corridor of the residence halls, and they can cover the
rooms on both sides. Two years ago, we found that some Aps were disconnected
every 2 or 3 days without any reason. Then we discovered that some students
unplugged the cables and they wanted to reboot the
Sent from Lotus TravelerDan Brisson --- Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls --- From:Dan Brisson dbris...@uvm.eduToWIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUDate:Wed, 2012-12-19 6:58 AMSubjectRe: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence HallsDavid,
Two summers ago we installed about 500 Access
Indeed, 7.4 was just released, but it requires NCS/PI 1.3, which is not
yet available:
WLC Version 7.4.100.0 will need Prime Infrastructure Version 1.3 to be
managed, Version 1.3 is not yet available to download at this point of time
So we wait...
On 12/18/2012 1:04 PM, Andy Page wrote:
In
We installed our APs in the hallways, and found that the APs were seeing such a
strong signal from each other that the Cisco controller would power down the
signal strength for the APs. This was causing a impact on coverage in the
rooms along the hallway.
Bruce Entwistle
Network Manager
On 12/19/2012 9:19 AM, Entwistle, Bruce wrote:
We installed our APs in the hallways, and found that the APs were seeing such a
strong signal from each other that the Cisco controller would power down the
signal strength for the APs. This was causing a impact on coverage in the
rooms along
We had the APs for our highrise dorms located in the hallways which was
convenient for installation and maintenance, but it made for a poor RF
design. Lots of co-channel interference and dynamic power management
problems. Moving them into student rooms solved this, although
coordinating the
…and we also wait for Prime Infrastructure 1.2.1.
So please dear Santa……;)
Cheers
Anders Nilsson
University of Umeå Sweden
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Skickat: den 19 december 2012 15:19
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Our experience matches that of a lot of other schools. Initially, for budget
reasons, a few buildings got APs in the hallways, but that's a suboptimal RF
design and will not work properly, and we quickly moved away from that and
instead tackled the hassles of trying to get APs into rooms and
From what I understand, it will work with 1.2, you just won't be able to use
the new features from 7.4.
--
Andy Page
Network Design Professional
University of Notre Dame
574.631.6592
Go Irish!
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From: Rick Coloccia coloc...@geneseo.edu
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Would you really try something unsupported by Cisco in a production
environment? ;)
Cheers
Anders
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Skickat: den 19 december 2012 15:51
Till:
Aaah, just the mDNS I need to appease my Apple user-base...
It's OK, upgrading 5508s is one of the lesser painful things I do.
Upgrading Prime shouldn't be too bad, either. Patching is a walk in the
park. Maybe 1.2 - 1.3 will come that way...
On 12/19/2012 9:51 AM, Andy Page wrote:
From
Also interesting- Cisco catches up with others doing Deep Packet Inspection in
Controllers:
Support for Application Visibility and Control (AVC) is introduced. AVC
classifies applications
using Cisco's Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) techniques with Network-Based
Application
Recognition (NBAR)
David,
During the spring and summer of 2012, the University of Tennessee Knoxville
campus upgraded wireless in the dorms. We had b/g AP's in the dorm hallways
and the wireless complaints were a constant reminder that we had to do
something. We removed the AP's from the hallways and placed
FWIW, we have a couple thousand APs in dorms, and thankfully they just don't
break. At most we see a small handful in a calendar year that require a visit
(Cisco APs in this case). Where they are in student rooms, they are left alone
99.95% or better. The students seem to realize the value of
We've had them in the rooms, constant battle with the xbox syndrome,
blinking lights, falling off the wall, etc... and since we had them in one
in four rooms, coverage not so good to the others. We are now installing
down the halls, about every 4 doors apart, or appr 60 feet. In the 2 halls
I
David,
Let me add that we cover between 5 to 6 students per AP (we stagger APs between
floors), and when an AP goes down,
we rarely receive a complaint since there is enough overlap between APs. So we
can take some time to fix the problem (referring to the room access issue).
As Larry
To that point- I have had to hit manual override on the fabled RRM algorithm in
spots where the APs influence each other to the detriment of the clients.
Typically amounts to setting a new min power level that the APs are not allowed
to go below, and occasionally going old-school setting fixed
We're looking into a wall-box form factor for our access points. Something
along the lines of one of these:
http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/zoneflex-indoor/7025
http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/altitude-4511.aspx
http://www.panoptictechnology.com/smart-room-network-jacks/
They're
Aruba does have a solution like this in the AP-93H. We have had success with
these in our residence halls.
http://www.arubanetworks.com/products/access-points/ap-93h/
Kade P. Cole - kc...@siue.edu - (618) 650-3377
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - ITS
Network and Infrastructure -
Joel,
Heads up. Many vendors provide box mounted APs with only one radio at 2.4 GHz
(e.g. your Ruckus reference) or selectable spectrum (the extreme network
reference or even the Aruba AP 93H).
Providing only 2.4 GHz is a solution that might not last for long and only
providing 5 GHz could
I'm working on a fairly new Cisco wireless install and we just discovered
that (any) two wireless clients cannot find/ping/connect to each other when
they are both on wireless.
I'm working on a TAC case for this now, but I wanted to see if anyone has
run into this.
Here are some details of our
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