We use essentially the eduroam services guidelines
(https://www.eduroam.us/node/69) but we have bandwidth restrictions on
guest WiFi that are not applied to actual eduroam traffic.
Jeff
On 5/20/2014 1:31 PM, Heath Barnhart wrote:
I'm using a simple ACL to restrict traffic. For VPN access we are
On 3/17/2014 5:12 PM, Kitri Waterman wrote:
Thomas,
We're looking at the same antenna for an auditorium space as well, so
glad to hear it's worked out for you.
Considering this universal mount or similar:
http://www.terra-wave.com/shop/universal-articulating-mount-p-672.html
Does this work
...
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On 3/16/2014 1:04 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:
Have seen similar results with Dell laptop locking
I sort of missed my conclusion... so my apologies, let me add that part...
On 3/17/2014 11:04 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:
Well, some client drivers will let you tweak the advanced settings.
I know I can prefer 5Ghz and I can prefer N on my aging laptop
(yeah, it was my Dell below, trying to track
Have seen similar results with Dell laptop locking onto 802.11n at a
distance and ignoring same room a/b/g. We are trying to avoid mixed
deployments, and sounds like the same concerns extend to 11ac as well.
Jeff
On 3/15/2014 11:12 PM, Alok Vimawala wrote:
Hi Frank,
We just had an
On 2/7/2014 7:11 PM, Green, William C wrote:
We pull one 6a also. That makes enough of us to drink together comfortably
at the next Educause party.
Most of our APs are one 5e. As well discussed, I also expect GE to be
sufficient for a number of years, but I never bet against more
On 1/16/2014 4:55 PM, Alexander, David wrote:
1) Do you allow guests on your wireless network?
Yes.
a. If you allow guests, what steps do they need to take to gain
access to the network (eg. sponsorship, MAC registration, open network)?
We provide 'eduroam' for participating
On 12/23/2013 4:43 PM, Danny Eaton wrote:
There seems to be a growing demand, and with the holiday season upon
us, I'm expecting more than a few requests when we all come back. Is
anyone allowing residential students to register game consoles on a
wireless SSID? If so, how? WPA2-PSK? MAC
That was a standard across the AMP jacks... you could get one Cat5
100Mbps, or two 10Mb split cable jacks. It was a matter of which
insert you plugged into the socket.
It wasn't my decision, and I cringe everytime I see one, but they're
still around in our older campus buildings.
Jeff
On
On 12/12/2013 5:11 PM, Ian McDonald wrote:
It seems to me to be completely impractical from a planning and
budgetary perspective to be increasing the density of AP's on an
annual basis due to poor client design, whether low transmit power,
antenna deficiency, or insufficiently well designed
On 12/3/2013 9:34 PM, Wright, Don wrote:
Just curious, have any Aruba shops tried enabling EAPOL rate
optimization to try helping with the Apple roaming/dropping issue?
It's a new setting in 6.1 and while it didn't help in my testing,
I've heard others have had success with it. Would
On 11/19/2013 4:05 PM, Peter P Morrissey wrote:
Can anyone name an application that does not have strong encryption?
I'm not arguing against 802.1x, because it works very well for us as users
don't have to authenticate constantly on a portal, and we seem to do a very
good job getting them
On 10/31/2013 6:53 PM, Andy Page wrote:
We are able to put APs in rooms if we wanted, but opted to put them in
hallways to limit the amount we would need to deploy, as well as
making replacements easier. We will occasionally put an access point
in a room if we have to, but it not typically
If you bridge wireless to wired, we have issues as most of our
buildings are routed (distributed model) and it breaks down the
mobility/roaming flexibility we get by backhauling our APs to central
controllers and using common network infrastructure across campus.
There are pros and cons to each,
This is our first real production year on having wireless coverage in
our residence halls. We had VERY limited availability before, typically
some commons areas, but we finally obtained funding to go all-out.
There have been some early complaints of weak spots or coverage holes.
In
On 8/1/2013 9:16 PM, Jason Cook wrote:
We haven't had any reports of it showing up as malware.
While by default most OS's these days work very well, we still find
inconsistencies within each OS and there's always a percentage of Windows/Mac
OS machines particularly that don't just work with
On 7/25/2013 5:42 PM, Sharon Luciw wrote:
:-)
Ah those were the days with Apple talk cabling hanging from the
celling all around us. And right along side Thick Ethernet cabling!
Ahh, Appletalk over PhoneNET, StarNET, Farralon, and Gator boxes...
gee thanks, that should disturb my sleep for
UTC has an opening for a wireless administrator (any experience above
and beyond certainly welcome, we're a small shop and we all wear several
hats :) ).
See https://ut.taleo.net/careersection/ut_chattanooga/joblist.ftl and
search down for
Wireless Network Administrator, Network Services.
HR
On 7/5/2013 2:12 PM, Brian Helman wrote:
There are two distinct items here. I disagree that there is no
difference between wired and wireless. A user with a strong
connection hitting Netflix could easily kill users with marginal
connection-speeds. In that case, whose experience are you
Our NAT is performed by our firewalls (Cisco ASAs) at the last hop
before the border router. Everything inside (packet shaping, IPS/IDS,
etc) is dealing with the internal addresses, the only use of the
external IPs is when we receive external reports.
We have adequate NAT pools to do 1-to-1
On 6/4/2013 8:20 PM, Tim Cappalli wrote:
We restrict some services on open. Also, as part of the registration
process, their device will be configured for eduroam and the open
SSID will be removed from their network list. They could hop back on
if they want. It's their choice.
If you have an
I guess the $64K question is... Is this more viable than Bonjour/AppleTV ?
We're desperately seeking an alternative to the growing tide that wants
just that...
Jeff
On 5/24/2013 10:18 PM, Walter Reynolds wrote:
We talked to a re-seller today and were underwhelmed by this. There
is no
On 5/24/2013 10:45 PM, Barron Hulver wrote:
Will products using Miracast take hold and be an alternative?
http://www.wi-fi.org/wi-fi-certified-miracast%E2%84%A2
In their FAQ...
7. How is Miracast related to Wi-Fi Direct?
Wi-Fi Direct allows devices to connect directly to each other,
On 2/24/2013 7:45 PM, Bob Williamson wrote:
What is considered to be too many clients per AP?
We have 30 APs and 450 K-12 students (100 of which are dorm students). We
also have a number of carts containing 15+ laptops the move around the
school, carts with 15+ Ipads moving around the
Hey Julian,
We recently went through this after cranking up eduroam officially this
past fall. We have similar points of confusion, plus a bonus.
Our email addresses are first-l...@utc.edu unless there are conflicts,
in which case we use a middle initial or a suffix.
Our official UTCid is a
On 11/12/2012 6:39 PM, Lee H Badman wrote:
Does anyone keep stats on how much your Eduroam efforts get used? Like, other
than just being in the club, is it really providing benefits that an
easy-to-use guest network wouldn't? Not being snarky, but genuinely wondering.
Well, again, I have a
On 11/12/2012 9:41 PM, Lee H Badman wrote:
Also... Does anyone get a bit turned off about having yet another SSID in the
air, or debranding your own in favor of pushing Eduroam as your SSID? Again,
just wondering. Let's task Phillipe with figuring out a way to make the
Eduroam underpinnings
I was wondering what other folks are doing for client location in cases where
you have
a problem with a client, random interference, trying to locate a stolen device,
etc.
We are an Aruba shop and have Airwave, which will get you in the general
vicinity; but
in crowded or multi-floor buildings
On 9/21/2012 2:37 PM, Cappalli, Tim G @ LSC-OIT wrote:
I've used the AirWave Management Client on a laptop before which can help you
hunt
down a device. You can download it from inside the AirWave GUI under
Documentation.
But as far as I can tell, it only locates APs, not clients.
On 9/3/2012 1:04 PM, Legge, Jeffry wrote:
Now that I have Cisco CleanAir I am seeing a lot of Xbox interferers
in dormitories. What if anything do you do about Xbox wireless?
XBoxes, wireless printers, wireless BluRays, the interference just keeps
on rolling in :(
Jeff
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On 7/5/2012 11:11 AM, Peter P Morrissey wrote:
I doubt that Apple has any clue that Educause even exists.
Pete Morrissey
It doesn't show up in Bonjour, and doesn't answer multicast DNS requests, so
no, it
can't possibly exist :)
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On 7/4/2012 2:48 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
Ok, I'm confused. If you turn the AP's radios off, how do the wireless
clients participate in Airplay?
Most Apple TVs can do wired ethernet, which is a good thing.
Many MacOS/iOS devices they want to use to project to them can not do
wired ethernet.
On 2/22/2012 10:07 AM, Fred Mowchan wrote:
Loved the comment on ATK, IPX, Neteui. Like Yogi Berra said this is
like deja vu all over again!
Yes, routing breaks traditional AT, IPX, NetBEUI, etc.
So what clown woke up and said Hey! Let's just multicast it, that's
routable...
Jeff
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On 2/22/2012 3:38 PM, Julian Y Koh wrote:
On Wed Feb 22 2012 09:24:46 Central Time, Jeff Kell wrote:
Yes, routing breaks traditional AT, IPX, NetBEUI, etc.
AppleTalk and IPX at least are totally routable protocols. :)
Well, you and I know
On 2/22/2012 9:21 PM, Joel Coehoorn wrote:
I just heard an interesting solution for this. Since AppleTV is
already consumer tech and does not need Internet (their classroom use is
pretty much just AirPlay), the person went out and bought a cheap $30
wireless router off the shelf at Walmart for
How large are your wireless subnets? Are you doing any broadcast/multicast
limiting?
You might also check for laptop loops -- anything with wired and wireless
interfaces
with both of them connected at the same time. Just takes one kid with ICS or
Bridging
turned on...
Jeff
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On 2/1/2012 1:11 PM, Peter P Morrissey wrote:
Sweet! It seems like one challenge would be the devices would constantly be
resetting
every time the bus stops running if you are powered directly off the
alternator? Has
that caused any issues? On top of that it seems like you would be
On 1/18/2012 7:30 PM, Scott Smith wrote:
I've seen many times on this list people discuss the differences
between Cisco, Aruba, and Meru. I know there are pros and cons of
each, but I'm wanting to get feedback from people who have either done
a bake off or at least tested between them, and
We have had similar requests / queries about this in particular, as well as
other
general wireless server roles for devices (e.g., printers, projectors).
We also suppress multicast/broadcast, and are not equipped for wireless
servers.
I shudder to think if Airplay was default open, just how
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On 11/10/2011 8:24 PM, Harry Rauch wrote:
We have in our internet docs for students that rogue wireless devices
that interferes with the dorm's internet usage will be requested to
shutdown or the student will lose internet rights for 30 days.
Students seem to be more than willing to shut off
On 10/28/2011 9:58 AM, Christina Klam wrote:
Funny that you mention the issues with the HTC… I have spent the last two
days trying
to figure out why some Droid phones/tablets can get a DHCP address and others
cannot.
Moreover, if they do get an IP address, some lose their IP address after
On 10/27/2011 9:49 PM, Mike King wrote:
Not exactly too surprising. I've have a few enterprising students
broadcasting some stuff from there dorm rooms via multicast (Wired for
us). I can imagine if it worked, they'd use it.
Yes, then there is that wonderful Dropbox LAN Sync broadcast
We use Alvarado scanners, tied in with 3rd-party ticketing (NeuLion I
think...). They
run on a non-broadcast SSID with mac authentication over our Aruba
infrastructure
(special AP groups carrying the SSID).
Jeff
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On 9/20/2011 11:52 AM, David Gillett wrote:
We'll be replacing our switches over the next 6-18 months, and I'm hoping
the new
ones may include this capability.
Just be a bit cautious... our city buses offer free WiFi on board. We were
deauth-ing
/ dropping users on the buses when they
On 8/22/2011 7:31 PM, Hurt,Trenton William wrote:
We have recently deployed wireless in all are residence halls and are
in the process of completing a ubiquitous wireless deployment across
our entire campus. We currently use public ips for the wireless
address space to serve client devices.
We are in the midst of testing a setup portal for admission to our dot1X
SSID. It is
a typical portal setup, with a captive DNS that points the web browser at the
portal web
page, with explanations of how to connect and items to download (evaluating
XpressConnect now for this).
It works fine
On 7/29/2011 6:34 PM, James J J Hooper wrote:
On 29/07/2011 20:35, Hanset, Philippe C wrote:
Also, if you don't mind the initial investment (will save you money
in the
long run)... get Xpressconnect
... or SU1X (free, but Windows only):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/su1x/
and you can
Quick question...
Can you have a pool of vlans for an Aruba role? or is pooling restricted to
the
default connection vlan list to the VAP?
Jeff
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On 7/25/2011 3:02 PM, Travis Schick wrote:
The problem as I understand it - is that without having a network connection
- you are
unable to verify the server presenting the certificate to you - you need to
trust it
first - and for win7/macosx the default is to prompt the user.
If the
We are finally planning a WPA2 rollout after years of procrastination (or more
truthfully, finally having some time to devote to the task...)
We have Aruba, passing through Bradford, with Radius supplied by Radiator, and
authenticating NTLM to Active Directory (Win2K8).
With just a self-signed
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