No bug ID, but it’s mentioned in the release notes for 15.2, but oddly, not in
the open caveat section. That suggests it’s something that can’t be fixed.
Jeff
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Hi Jeff,
Sounds like a “talk to the BU via your SE” answer if you really want it fixed…
Chad
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Paul,
Dorm design is an animal of itself and each school has its own set of
challenges based on
locations and policies. As much as I agree that 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz shouldn’t be
on separate SSIDs for main campus,
I have really changed my mind for dormitories. Those buildings are really micro
Does anyone employ band-steering? When we enabled it, we saw a massive
jump of users connecting at 5ghz. Obviously if the client doesn't support
5ghz or it just prefers 2.4 because of various factors it can stay on 2.4.
I have only seen it improve throughput for everyone. Any opinions on this?
We
In some areas of campus I have enabled a sort of band-steering. Our
multi-radio Xirrus units will attempt to load balance across their 8
radios. I am running 2x2GHz radios, 5x5GHz radios, and 1 radio in
monitor mode. When I turn this setting on, the AP will attempt to
steer the client away from
Single SSID – anything else just adds confusion for the end-user. Then again, I
was recently visited a spot where they had a different SSID for every building.
:)
Thinking more about this…
If residence halls (academic buildings too) are well designed around 5 GHz and
use in-room AP placement,
Yes, we use band-steering and I recommend it over the different SSID approach.
If a device chooses the 2.4 GHz SSID on its own, most people won't notice for
quite some time. How often have you found your device on an SSID other than the
one you intended? My Netgear router at home won't let me
Top info Chuck
A few additional things to play with from that list.
Do you have varying power in your set power or is it designed to be all one so
very even spacing between AP’s?
By varying I guess do you set to X, survey then adjust some.
Or rely more on your testing and design to get it right
Paul,
I am not a supporter of this. Mainly because I think Wi-Fi knowledge for
the end-user should be minimised. Users should just see the SSID and
connect; options to choose from should be minimized. The most important
thing users must learn is checking the correctness of the Radius server
to
We were considered a similar approach last year but never completed the plan,
mainly due to other priorities and having already kind of implemented one.
Rather than go a 2.4 and a 5 the plan was to leave our normal network “UofA” as
dual and create new network “UofA Premium” or some ‘join me
Dear Paul,
Our Wi-Fi at AUBG is Trapeze/Juniper. Two years ago we installed WLA322
dual-radio, 802.11n capable, 2x2 MIMO in every dorm room (370 new + approx.
175 existing 2.4 Ghz capable only devices). During fine tuning of the system
with new AP’s we broadcasted separate SSID’s for 2.4 Ghz
I agree with Frans, the users in general don’t have the knowledge to decide.
They will see 5Ghz, google it and see: oh it’s faster. They don’t realize other
factors could make 2.4Ghz the better choice. We have one SSID and let the
devices make the right choice.
Mathieu Sturm
Hoofdmedewerker
Paul,
We're an Aruba shop and, as Bruce of Liberty mentioned, for dense
deployments we turn 2.4 ghz radios off on every other AP (typically edge of
building APs). Our main performance issues were due to interference and
channel utilization on the 2.4 ghz spectrum. We attempted reducing 2.4 ghz
Paul,
Similar to the concept that Jason mentioned earlier, I heard of a wireless
setup at an Educause conference a while back with separate SSIDs for 2.4
and 5. What helped them, unfortunately can't remember who it was, was
adding 'FAST' to the 5Ghz SSID name to help steer users to the 5Ghz band.
Why not just deploy the 2.4 GHz with the same SSID on a few of the APs? With
our Aruba APs, that is the recommended solution in a dense situation.
Bruce Osborne
Wireless Engineer
IT Infrastructure Media Solutions
(434) 592-4229
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
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The challenge for FAST networks is when you don't have 5ghz dense enough to
cover everywhere.
What will happen is users will be walking and run into places where they drop
from 5Ghz. And they will manually connect to the 2.4Ghz SSID.
Without having the ability to tune which network is
At Drew we very recently moved away from multiple SSIDs for this purpose,
but we had 'drew' on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and '5drew' on just the 5GHz
range. I don't remember exactly, but when we initially set it up some
devices would connect in alphabetical order and preferred the 5drew network
for
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