Wondering if anybody is moving forward with residential halls that are
100% wireless only, with no wired connectivity. If so, how is it working
out?
Regards-
Lee Badman
Lee H. Badman
Network Engineer
CWSP, CWNA (CWNP011288)
Computing and Media Services (NSS)
250 Machinery Hall
Syracuse
I would be interested as well. We have the access points and will
probably install them over the winter break.
Michael H. Bean
PC Technician
Information Services
University of Saint Mary
4100 South 4th Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048
682-5151 ext. 6999
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Theresa is absolutely correct. Installing wireless only dorms to
students that expect and are used to broadband wired access is not
trivial and requires careful planning and policy setting. A typical
802.11b AP is analogous to a half duplex 10 Mbps ethernet connection
from yesteryear...
However,
Hi All
I'm using avaya ap-8's which is the same as the proxim4000 unit. A request
came in to have the box act as a NAT box. I had thought this was not
possible, but I see NAT listed as one of the options on a few sites on the
Internet.
Is anyone using these boxes, and if so, do you know if they
Phil Raymond wrote:
The initial design needs to consider coverage AND capacity.
Phil (and others),
Have you got a rule of thumb for the number of students per G access point
in a college dorm?
Larry Press
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If someone forced me to assign a rule of thumb at this high level, I
would assign a conservative data rate of 1 Mbps to each student as a
requirement. For an 802.11g ONLY network running at the highest data
rate (aka strongest signal) using enterprise class AP's (data thruput
does vary between AP
You are correct in your belief that these units are simply bridges.
Proxim does have a new controller, though, that will turn our AP-4000
installations into a switched wireless infrustructure, similar to
Airespace/Aruba/Meru deployments. I have not looked at this, however it
seems possible
The other factor that shouldn't be ignored is the role that clients play in
contributing to co-channel interference issues in dense deployment WLANs.
It's relatively easy (albeit expensive) to design micro-cell AP
configurations that maximize per-user bandwidth by reducing power output on
the AP.
All of the issues listed here are great examples of the complex nature
of designing an 802.11 environment with such stringent requirements.
With only 3 channels, even if you plan very carefully and precisely
control the output power of your APs, you're going to get channel
overlap. This will
I believe that http://www.extricom.com/ does almost the same thing that
Meru does. Has anyone compared/contrasted the two?
Jamie A. Stapleton
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-Original Message-
From: Michael Griego
We have indeed reviewed both products. Currently we are a Meru user
with nearly 150 AP's online. Since then we continue to monitor what
similar technologies are emerging.
In essence they are both similar, however there are key differences.
The key differences are:
The Extricom product
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