RE: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-25 Thread Lay, Daniel
to:j...@scrippscollege.edu] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Interference in dorms. I would have agreed with Neil if this conversation was happening several years ago. Today however, is 2.4Ghz anything other than for low-performance low-bandwidth and/or legacy devices? That is, at least o

Re: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-23 Thread Eric W. LaCroix
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RE: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-23 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
frey Sessler [mailto:j...@scrippscollege.edu] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Interference in dorms. I would have agreed with Neil if this conversation was happening several years ago. Today however, is 2.4Ghz anything other than for low-performance low-bandwidth and/or legacy dev

Re: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-21 Thread Johnson, Neil M
...@uiowa.edu>> Subject: Re: Interference in dorms. Be careful disabling 2 mbps. We were told at the Cisco conference in a wireless class just last week that the Wiis require 2mbps to successfully find and join the wireless network. I have not personally verified this, but the source is re

RE: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-21 Thread Peter P Morrissey
Our view is that in order to provide a consistent, high quality, wireless experience that students pay for and depend upon, we have to limit interference. We prohibit interfering devices and enforce. We do make a concerted effort to get the word out to students on this even before they even arr

RE: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-21 Thread Marcelo Lew
Have any of you added a section to orientation that discusses the problem of interference and did it have good results. YES, mixed results. Did any of you do a poster campaign with good results or did you issue a Faraday cage to each student to store their stuff in (yes that was a joke) YES on t

Re: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-21 Thread Rick Coloccia
Be careful disabling 2 mbps. We were told at the Cisco conference in a wireless class just last week that the Wiis require 2mbps to successfully find and join the wireless network. I have not personally verified this, but the source is reliable... -Rick On 7/21/2011 12:58 PM, Johnson, Neil M

RE: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-21 Thread Robertson, Joshua A.
Currently we're addressing this issue by installing the 3500 series Cisco Clean Air Access Points in all of our dorms and increasing the number of APs in the dorms while we do it. These access points do interference detection and will map it in Cisco WCS. I have a feeling it's probably going t