There is a support community at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prey-security it's hard to tell if the
complaints are legitimate reflections on the software, or user error issues.
-Lee Badman
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Adjunct
Strictly out of scientific curiosity, is the reduction in APs while gaining
coverage based on similar power settings in both hardware sets, and how do you
answer the yeah, but what about client capacity concerns in dense areas?
question when the number of APs and uplinks to the network is
We have two previously loved WLSE management appliances about to go to the
scrap pile, but I'd rather see them in use as they are da bomb for managing
fat Cisco WLANs. I'm sure the price would be quite attractive if anyone has the
need.
I'll even do buy one, get one free (as far you know)!
Yes, we ran both systems at max power to allow for greatest range; our
densities in some lecture halls were over 150 active users for one array.
Ruckus provides a link to Tom's Hardware Guide that has done some
extensive testing of several front-line enterprises APs. The results may
surprise
Excellent information, Harry- Thanks. I have a feeling Cisco cringes to read
that 3500 APs were tested with 4402s instead of 5508 controllers.
-Lee Badman
From: Harry Rauch [mailto:rauc...@eckerd.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:22 AM
To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group
We're looking seriously at Ruckus to solve our coverage issues simply due to
the fact of where we had to install our APs in our dorms (in the hallways).
Our initial tests show much improved SNR over most vendors to the edge of our
dorms with their mid-range AP. We had another vendor test
But in a real-world dorm scenario - microwaves, game consoles with
wireless controllers, a wide variety of cell phones using the wireless,
laptops that have Ad-hoc inadvertently turned on, etc. - the Ruckus has
performed exceedingly well. Of course, for us, the cost factor was
significant. We
The funny part about this article, Merikai is consistently horrible.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Mike King m...@mpking.com wrote:
I'm thinking the Unfiltered version is this one?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wi-fi-performance,2985.html
(Which also references this article, (the
Well... I might challenge that to a point. Though I didn't lab test, I did just
put in a 35-AP Meraki environment in Syracuse University's London facility.
Spot checking through the wireless APs I tested (basically FTP of large files
and simple throughput tests) showed what I would expect in
Lee, one thing to be aware of is that these other companies (Ruckus, Xirrus,
etc) use arrays, not access points. So there are multiple radios per unit. On
a per-radio basis, the number of users may be similar to a single access point
(we've found it to be higher by about 20-30%), but
Due to the directional antenna array Ruckus uses they recommend not using
dynamic power management. Those that are using their APs; are you finding this
to be viable in real world deployments?
-Brian #2
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
Agreed- and it is fascinating stuff.
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Helman
[bhel...@salemstate.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:59 AM
To:
Real-world conditions almost always seem to shoot lab conditions in the
foot. I think Tom's has done a follow-up recently that show some of the
strengths and weaknesses of a wide variety of APs.
I think the beam-forming concept used by Ruckus is very interesting as
well as very effective.
I have found that the issue of using full power doesn't seem to affect
the day-to-day use. If I were using a Ruckus in a small office I have
been tempted to reduce power but have found this to be less than useful.
Harry Rauch Sr. Network Analyst Eckerd College 4200 - 54th Ave S St.
The question I have had with Ruckus is how their APs coordinate their
beamforming activities so as to not contend for the same clients. It seems
there would need to be a control plane to avoid AP contention.
How does one survey for these APs? Do you factor in the beamforming (unicast
frames,
That is one of my concerns as well. I've not been able to find a good answer
to it as yet.
Brian
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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T.
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
From what I can tell they use the MAC address as a base identifier; in
a mesh the system identifies the device and somehow decides and which AP
has a better signal/connection. Unmeshed APs simply hold on to the
device until the signal becomes too weak when another AP would be picked
up by the
In a general sense, I would question putting Ruckus and Xirrus in the same
group as arrays. The two are quite different.
From a radio hardware perspective, Ruckus APs are the same as any other access
point, in that they offer combinations of single or dual radio 2.4 and 5 GHz
APs. Their indoor
Thanks,
That makes sense, since the client decides anyway. It seems this may make the
decision less clear to clients without AP coordination, but perhaps not. The AP
co-channel interference reduction offered by Ruckus is certainly appealing,
especially for mesh.
Thanks,
Bruce T. Johnson |
Interesting eval of some older Ruckus gear by Stuart Cheshire:
http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/Ruckus-WiFi-Evaluation.pdf
He's an Apple engineer primarily responsible for Zeroconf, co-author
of several RFCs, and wrote the classic Mac game Bolo!
Go Google that, kids...
--
Dan Young
Looking for thoughts on Aruba for the following:
M3 controller
105 APs
How is their support?
What were the differentiators with Aruba that led to your institution choosing
them over others?
Stability of firmware in APs and controller? If we choose Aruba we most likely
will not be able to
We have only deployed Aruba over the past few months through a campus refresh
project so I will answer with that caveat.
1. We have deployed 2 6000 Chassis with 2 M3 Controllers each. Licensing was a
little confusing at first, and so was the methodologies used in configuring.
Coming from a
Do you modify Mandatory/Supported the data rates on Ruckus APs?
I suspect keeping lower Mandatory rates allows clients to associate at long
range with broadcast frames sent omni-directionally, after which beamforming
kicks in for unidirectional data frames at higher data rates.
Thanks,
Bruce
Hello,
We've had Aruba for several years now and are very happy with them.
We have 5 M3's, 1 Master 4 Locals, ~800 AP's (could do it with 3 M3's, history
there...) the Master acts as a failover for the locals. We don't have
redundancy on the Master at this time. Would like to, but at the
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