RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ekahau Licensing & Alternatives

2021-07-18 Thread Jason Cook
This frustrated us a bit too. Their licensing seems to be aimed primarily at Wifi professionals who use this all the time/profit from it as part of their business. Doesn’t really fit our environments at all. Over the course of a year lets say at best we’d use this at .5 of an FTE (I’m probably

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ekahau Licensing & Alternatives

2021-07-18 Thread Dan Lauing
I don't blame them for not wanting multiple users on a single license. However, I do blame them for not warning us that we were apparently breaking the ToS and decided to kill our license without notice. This left me, on a weekend and in a pinch, unable to even open my surveys. How were we

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ekahau Licensing & Alternatives

2021-07-18 Thread Rick Brown
We’re surveying and designing for the Aruba VHD parameters in all of our campus buildings with academic ones taking precedence. We have 4 engineers with each a license and Sidekick. This is obviously a multi year project. We have been asking for a read only version so that our NOC can view

RE: Ekahau Licensing & Alternatives

2021-07-18 Thread Phill Solomon
Hi TJ, I am glad this not just us - we don't use the software / sidekick often and usually outsource new surveys. We are being asked to purchase / renew with Connect - I can see why we would need it if we only do rare survey. I would however like the ability to read the survey files that we