update was shipping buggy drivers for a very, very long time.
The fact that the client getting an IP address depended on the data rates of
other clients on the same AP made troubleshooting nearly impossible, until we
got lucky and Trapeze identified it as a known bug.
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
We killed off all 11b data rates about two years ago. We've had no
complaints, but also don't have any wireless network set up to handle non-1x
devices, like game consoles.
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complaints about unreliable wireless, no good way to track down the
source(s) of the problems, and an administration resistant to implementing any
substantial changes.
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up painting it with something that damages the
plastic shell, or causes RF interference, like metallic paint.
A much, much better solution would be to get paintable snap-on covers, like
AP-225-CVR-20, AP-325-CVR-20, or AP-335-CVR-20, depending on your AP model.
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
Check out the enclosures and antennas at ventev.com. They have a few options
which might make it easier to stick an unobtrusive antenna somewhere, and hide
the AP in a nearby box out of sight.
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that would be involved in
troubleshooting that kind of heterogeneous, uncoordinated RF soup.
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after a quick set
of routine questions. Overall the process was quick and painless.
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On 03/07
for non university issued devices. That way when it
gets hacked, starts spamming, or gets hit with DMCA, we know whose door to
knock on. We've toyed with the idea of letting go of MAC registration for
EAP-TLS authenticated devices, but that wouldn't be an option with PSK.
Frank Sweetser fs
We've always killed these kinds of requests by pointing out that we can't do
anything at all about anything with a 4g data plan.
On February 8, 2016 2:27:55 PM EST, "Case, Brandon J" wrote:
>Is anyone exploring or able to suggest good options for rate limiting
>or preventing
I sent out a data sheet for the ethernet traveler cable that we used here
earlier in the thread. Feel free to ping me directly if it didn't come
through for you.
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on their supported
list. Anything else is best effort, meaning we'll spit you out a certificate,
and maybe give you some directions if we have them, but you're on your own to
actually set it up.
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Well that's... interesting.
Anyone heard any rumors about what their roadmap might be? These acquisitions
of an independent service by a larger portfolio company rarely seem to well
for customers of the independent service if you're not also a customer of the
large one.
Frank Sweetser fs
ich can go a
long way in figuring out whether wireless complaints are really about
wireless, or something else in the chain.
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the advantage
of allowing you to work with multiple carriers. We've been having good
results with Seamless Cellular, though I'm sure there are plenty of other
vendors out there:
http://www.seamlesscellular.com/
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Failure to work on an SSID they can (barely!) see is often what brings them to
my door in the first place =)
Running cable and addition additional APs is outside of our budgetary scope on
the greek houses, so unfortunately that kind of fine tuning is rarely an
option anyway.
Frank Sweetser
share out their wireless credentials, they're at least not
sharing their password to email, LMS, and everything else along with it.
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This sounds almost exactly like what we're planning on doing in a major
wireless auth overhaul this upcoming year! Anything you have on how your
system works that you could share would be greatly appreciated.
thanks!
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ork College is to transform lives through
>Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to
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>On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Frank Sweetser <f...@wpi.edu> wrote:
>
>> A few people have mentioned dropping user categories int
A few people have mentioned dropping user categories into different VLANs,
which is certainly one viable option. However, this may cause problems for the
multi user machines, as having the machine flip VLANs on login can be
disruptive.
As an alternative, you may be able to use the wireless
Does anyone have a list or reference of what hardware supports this feature?
A quick survey of some of our known Windows 10 users has shown no sign of it.
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On August 28, 2015 5:55:33 PM EDT, Jake Snyder jsnyde...@gmail.com
metrics (able to connect, at least XX throughput, no
more than YY jitter) you're good, regardless of individual component level status.
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Students should be a relatively easy case. At least here, we make them sign
an AUP, which references explicit provisions about not running unauthorized APs.
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on our own community
members, as opposed to random visitors) does give us critical leverage to make
this all work.
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are a different story...
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On 08/20/2015 12:08 PM, Lee H Badman wrote:
You're real close to our
And they say sales is hard...
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On July 28, 2015 8:10:12 AM EDT, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote:
Well then… I’ll get right on that.
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We may eventually move towards only setting up eduroam for personal devices,
but we plan on keeping our branded SSID around for domain machines. We need it
to handle machine authentication, rather than having it only work on our local
eduroam SSID and throwing off noise anywhere else.
of
supporting dot1x on client wired interfaces.
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On 06/25/2015 02:23 PM, Danny Eaton wrote
phone.
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On 06/24/2015 10:44 AM, Williams, Matthew wrote:
We’re looking into a few RADIUS solutions
Huh. So much for the deep Aruba/Juniper integration that was threatened.
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On June 23, 2015 8:53:32 AM EDT, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote:
http://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510546-en.pdf?
possible they've addressed the stability issues since we
last looked.
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On 6/18/2015 1:38 PM, Mike
One more point to consider when evaluating current bandwidth usage is where
your metering is performed. For most traditional WiFi installs you're only
going to be billed for internet traffic, or possibly for out of building
depending on what kind of outsourcing you do.
For an LTE system, I'd
students, and can be engaged to elicit much
clearer requirements, such as I need to support 40 students running apps X,
Y, and Z in classroom XXX.
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, it's that unlike a wired connection,
wireless is an intermittent, temperamental, complicated mess that you really
do have to attack with a holistic measure-plan-improve cycle.
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endpoint IP
addresses, for example), but this it's still an imperfect solution where 1 + 1
!= 2.
So my guess is that we have a few years before it's a major concern, and I'm
waiting on a decent answer for 2.5Gb switching before I do any real investment
in a solution.
Frank Sweetser fs
Perhaps best of both worlds? I believe there are some forums in which you can
participate equally through both mailing lists and web forums.
On March 18, 2015 2:59:56 PM EDT, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote:
I hear you and get it, Ian- thanks.
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues
of devices with good
solid support for them has worked out very well for us.
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On 3/11/2015 7
CAs,
currently scheduled at the end of this year.
Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions.
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Lee’s not going to be on HP’s Christmas card list… :)
No, but I think he might be on mine now =)
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, while putting all of the rest of the goodies that let us to
selecting them (Clearpass, Airwave's cross vendor capabilities, their
switches) in jeopardy of either being tossed outright or left hanging around
atrophying.
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looking for, rather than trying to make compromises to satisfy all of their
markets at once.
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Rasperry pi + wifi with USB to printer?
Odds are kludging it all together would go far faster than waiting for such a
unicorn model printer to appear...
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If we were to impose that on student residents, why couldn't Marriott do the
same to hotel and conference guests?
On January 28, 2015 11:05:53 AM EST, Hunter Fuller hf0...@uah.edu wrote:
You can't deauth the users, but you can make one of the requirements
for living in the dorms don't put up a
the
equivalent of an apple mobileconfig containing a full set of wireless settings
and credentials (like a per-user certificate) that can be read by any client
device, and *just work*.
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requires a certain level of work independent of the size of that
class.
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Jeff
On Friday, January
meeting, they were still in the working on the
paperwork phase of getting us evaluation gear of any kind. I realize it was
just one experience, but it just did not give me a warm fuzzy feeling about
how well the company was operating.
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem
Possibly. While I wouldn't say we have any higher quality data than you do, our
wireless complaint form has produced several reports of apple device slowness.
In particular, we've had a bunch complaining about iOS devices installing apps
being ridiculously slow.
On January 16, 2015 12:56:47 PM
We already have an unencrypted ssid for students to get to our onboarding
system (Cloudpath). Our plan for this summer is to poke enough firewall holes
for students to also run through the device activation process. If we were to
try to impose any kind of device security policies, we would do
news for the 11ac minded
concerned with cabling
On 07/11/14 02:00, Frank Sweetser wrote:
I would strongly encourage everyone to bug all of their vendors about
where
this is on their roadmap. I've been asking ours, and they haven't
made any
commitments yet but they're all well aware of it.
Our
, filtering, etc issues,
letting us just be a dumb pipe. If anyone has anything they can share about
this option, whether it's research, experiences (good or bad), specific vendor
recommendations, or just general suggestion, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks all!
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not much you can do for that except
free cables and a constant, consistent education campaign.
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One thing that helps is the fact that 11ac is not defined in the 2.4 band.
Instead of trying to teach them about dual band devices, you can just tell them
to look for the ac logo on the box, and they're guaranteed to get a dual band
device.
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But damnitall, at least it would be doing *something* to push back on these
crappy default configurations.
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the mess
that requires engineering resources be dumped into features like Aruba
Clientmatch to paper over.
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are also in the process of rolling out eduroam campus wide.
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On 09/09/2014 11:40 AM, Mark Reboli wrote
require that they actually
start taking orders. I haven't really found much else without getting into
lab bench gear, so I'm hoping someone out there has a good secret tool they
can recommend simple enough to give to a workstudy.
Thanks all!
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with the rest of the Juniper wireless
portfolio, and needed something that was either part of the replacement
system, or a 3rd party one that integrated well.
If you're interested, I'd be happy to talk directly over email or phone about
our evaluation process and findings in more detail.
Frank Sweetser
of difference vs trying to read
the tea leaves through ticket metrics.
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On 7/10/2014 1:55 PM, Norman
: -To:
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
From: Frank Sweetser
Sent by: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
Date: 06/10/2014 07:18PM
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS8 and randomized mac addresses
Did you see the non-random MAC address in broadcast SSID probe requests, or
only
to roll out basically the same scenario, and we're still
running off of the old ES 2 server pending a new release of ES 3 that's
alleged to address some HA replication bugs.
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for WPA2-Personal yet totally hosed for WPA2-Enterprise.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard a complaint that boiled down to But
it works in my basement at home! I'd probably have enough to buy them all
enterprise class devices instead...
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If I ever invent an IT drinking game, it's going to include at least one shot
for every time a wifi vulnerability fails to mention if it applies to PSK, 1x,
or both.
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Well damn. I had been hoping that clients would have gotten at least a little
smarter in their roaming decisions, but clearly that was just wishful thinking.
Thanks all for the confirmation...
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than incrementally, to fix the complaints.
My question is, has anyone seen similar issues in buildings with a mix of 11ac
and 11n APs?
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,
while any external eduroam guests get dropped onto our guest VLAN.
Simple, clean, and completely transparent to our users.
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.
As for users, we have about 6000 students. And for guest users - well, if
we had a good way to count them then they'd be staff and wouldn't count as
guests anymore ;-)
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it, or go off
list if anyone wants to get into the messy details.
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On 01/29/2014 01:24 PM, Jimmy
You certainly have my attention! We're struggling with some of our high
density areas (popular study rooms, lecture halls mostly), and I'd love to
hear any suggestions you have.
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Personally I think an opportunity was missed to drop support for overlapping
channels in 11ac, at least on the AP side. It would be a nice motivator to
deny them the biggest wifi certification sticker yet if they keep doing
braindead things like default to channel 2.
Frank Sweetser fs
for itself in
terms of man hours saved.
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On 12/12/2013 10:01 AM, Marcelo Lew wrote:
Agree with Lee
In certain areas, sure. One more thing we're going to have to divine from our
tea leaves is which areas only need coverage, and which need the extra money
sunk in for high capacity. Unfortunately, all it takes is a professor who wants
in class laptop survey software getting scheduled in the
data in
it. The tell-tale was that any machines upgraded to 8.1 would only
successfully connect if server validation was disabled in the wireless
profile. Moving to a properly set up CA (CloudPath PKI in our case) solved
that particular batch of problems.
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
-in
replacement for those pesky USB cables that are never quite long enough. I
strongly suspect that until someone makes the rounds with a large bat with
ENTERPRISE WIFI spelled out in nails on one end, the situation isn't likely
to change.
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The last time I found that situation, it turned out that the game device itself
was defective, just not in a way that affected gameplay. None of the other
units in the building were nearly as loud.
The building in this case was a Greek house, so I simply informed them of the
cause of their
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Frank Sweetser f...@wpi.edu wrote:
The last time I found that situation, it turned out that the game
device
itself was defective, just not in a way that affected gameplay. None
of the
other units in the building were
I've found that now that students live and die by wireless, self preservation
keeps them from touching the access points. We've had them in our dorms for
close to 10 years, and haven't had any vandalized yet.
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Kitri
You can't do a direct apples to oranges comparison between wired and wireless
bandwidth. Remember, that wired connection is one gig in each direction for an
aggregate of two gig of bandwidth, compared with the total half duplex 1.3 (in
ideal conditions) on wave 1.
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in the
private network to allow OCSP to work for whatever CA you're using.
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On 7/30/2013 4:33 PM
SSL certificates, something which could have taken a
lot longer to track down otherwise.
Oh, and we're Juniper, latest 7.7 code, nearly all 532 APs, in case anyone's
interested.
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clients even
noticing that you did anything.
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On 3/11/2013 3:55 PM, Daniel Westacott wrote:
Hi
I highly doubt PSK will die off until everyone's SOHO class gear supports some
form of 1x.
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-master arr2036$ sudo ifconfig en0 ether
11:22:33:44:55:66
en0: flags=8863UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
options=2bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4
ether 11:22:33:44:55:66
media: autoselect (none)
status: inactive
-Arran
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.
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On 11/5/2012 8:46 PM, Hanset, Philippe C wrote:
Colleen,
- What are others doing to support
was due to dead
gateway detection on the Macs. Filtering our all IPv6 packets prevented the
clients from getting the bogus IPv6 connectivity, and cleared up the symptoms.
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