RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] [External] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone else seeing any issues in the fall with large classrooms and delayed connection times (Aruba 8.5.0.13)

2021-09-02 Thread Rob Harris
s > (Aruba 8.5.0.13) > > Speaking from experience, I would be very concerned. We had no issues until > students returned and we went downhill from there. > > > On 9/2/21, 8:50 AM, "The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv > on behalf of Rob Harris"

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] [External] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone else seeing any issues in the fall with large classrooms and delayed connection times (Aruba 8.5.0.13)

2021-09-02 Thread Rob Harris
Has anyone seen any details regarding what they consider "Large" environments? We upgraded during the break, but both before and after versions are affected. We didn't notice this happening before, should we be concerned now? The "dropped" is 0 and the stm cpu usage is in single digits, but

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba 8.7 issues

2021-05-20 Thread Rob Harris
The "conservative" branch is considered stable for everyone. We don't go beyond conservative in production unless there's a really compelling reason to. -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv On Behalf Of Tim Tyler Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021

RE: Aruba User Experience Insight (UXI)

2021-04-23 Thread Rob Harris
We have remote sites that don't have full, dedicated IT staff, so these are very useful for basic "it's up and running" and "these sites / services are reachable" verification. The tests are flexible and the support team is very responsive. [The Culinary Institute of America] Robert Harris

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] protecting AP's in a gym?

2021-01-28 Thread Rob Harris
There’s a company called oberon https://oberoninc.com/ that makes a variety of enclosure styles, very high quality and reasonably priced. They work with the vendors so the hardware doesn’t interfere (or does as little as possible).. We use them and are very happy with them.. [The Culinary

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Segmentation and NAC

2021-01-22 Thread Rob Harris
..@middlebury.edu<mailto:wsn...@middlebury.edu> 802.443.5769 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> on behalf of Rob Harris mailto:robert.har...@culinary.edu>> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Segmentation and NAC

2021-01-22 Thread Rob Harris
This isn't a very deep answer, but aruba with clearpass should do everything you're asking about. Robert Harris Manager – Telecom, Networks, & AV Services Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive Hyde Park, NY 845-451-1681 www.ciachef.edu Food is Life Create and Savor Yours.™   Please

RE: ArubaOS 8.5.0.11 or 8.6.0.6 Experiences?

2021-01-13 Thread Rob Harris
We went from 8.5.0.9 to .11 over the holiday, no issues so far. [The Culinary Institute of America] Robert Harris Manager - Telecom, Networks, & AV Services Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive Hyde Park, NY 845-451-1681 www.ciachef.edu Food is Life Create and

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Device visibility in Aruba AirGroup + ClearPass

2020-03-04 Thread Rob Harris
This is the way you want to do it, each user can only see things registered to them. You’ll need clearpass guest for this. Once it’s up and running, people love it, and it’s easy to manage. We’ve even set up a highly restricted account for student helpdesk to be able to update device

RE: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-03-04 Thread Rob Harris
This was a very active thread that really got a lot of attention. To the OP and main contributors, how is everything now? Anyone willing to drop an update? (We're still happy with our 315s, we're running 8.5.0.5 and it's basically stable. Any issues we encountered they were very quick to help

RE: Implementing registration based Guest Wi-Fi

2020-02-24 Thread Rob Harris
May I ask what your goals are in this change? (to echo the other responses, Aruba Clearpass is a great choice for this, we use it and it does everything we need it to). [The Culinary Institute of America] Robert Harris Manager - Telecom, Networks, & AV Services Culinary Institute of America

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-10 Thread Rob Harris
What flavor of AP are you running? What are you doing for POE? -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv On Behalf Of Jason Healy Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 2:24 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who has

RE: Who has transitioned away from Aruba, and why?

2020-01-10 Thread Rob Harris
I've been an Aruba customer for a long time now and while I'm still happy, I see what you're saying. In my opinion, a lot of issues started here; https://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/Wireless-Access/Updates-to-Aruba-Release-Naming-Replacing-ED-and-GA/td-p/279651 When they changed how the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba version 8 (Mobility Master) and AP-115 access points

2018-06-29 Thread Rob Harris
We’re not on 8.x yet, but we’ve ton a lot of research. Here’s what I understand (correct me if I’m wrong); You can only use airmatch when there is a MM present Arm and airmatch are not an either/or choice, arm will still do the job it normally does in real time, while airmatch will pool that

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba version 8 (Mobility Master) and AP-115 access points

2018-06-28 Thread Rob Harris
We're moving to 8.x this summer as well, we have a lot of 105s so I hope there isn't an issue. Keep us up to date, thanks! please excuse typos and brevity, sent from a mobile device, thank you! From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv on

RE: Recommendations for wireless site surveyor in Australia

2018-06-04 Thread Rob Harris
If you're on twitter, take a look at @ANZWiFi , that's a good spot to start. There are many fantastic engineers on social media who travel the world doing exactly these types of jobs. Good luck! [The Culinary Institute of America] Robert Harris Manager - Telecom, Networks, & AV Services

RE: ClearPass - not so clear anymore

2018-04-02 Thread Rob Harris
Did you talk to your reps (direct, not partner) prior to the upgrade? They’ve always helped us when things like that happened and made sure we had what we needed. [The Culinary Institute of America] Robert Harris Manager – Telecom, Networks, & AV Services Culinary Institute of America 1946

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] devices not connecting to open network

2018-01-16 Thread Rob Harris
Yes, these types of devices tend to be more sensitive to any networks that aren't your standard out of the box, home router config. -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman

RE: devices not connecting to open network

2018-01-10 Thread Rob Harris
Have you modified the rf at all on those SSIDs? Are you advertising and supporting the standard rates? I've heard that if you limit the lower rates or don't advertise them, some of those devices may have issues. Good luck! [The Culinary Institute of America] Robert Harris Manager - Telecom,

RE: upgrade from 802.11n to 802.11ac

2017-12-06 Thread Rob Harris
Robert. We are going to do a proper site survey and RF design for sure. Right now just looking for an approximate number for budgeting purpose. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Rob Harris Sent: Wednesday, December 06,

RE: upgrade from 802.11n to 802.11ac

2017-12-06 Thread Rob Harris
You're really going to want to have a survey done and a proper design built. I recommend Aruba networks, their products have worked very well for us and their support is top shelf. [The Culinary Institute of America] Robert Harris Manager - Telecom, Networks, & AV Services Culinary Institute of

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Two RF Questions

2017-09-26 Thread Rob Harris
While there are performance gains to be sure (by going to 40, or 80), there are other concerns as well. We use 20 in our dorms because of the density of APs and users, we need those additional channels (even with dfs in use). We use 40 in our public spaces when there’s adequate capacity for it,