RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] In room WIFI - second example

A better way to ask the question (perhaps?): Your budget was cut in half but your requirements of installing/having AC Wireless was not changed? Simple answer is something has to give. I understand your pain. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wifi blocking paint?

Wire mesh also forms a nice barrier. My school had high end glass doors with wire woven through it. Guess what happened when you shut the doors? Very functional Faraday Cage. I have also seen thin Guage wire used to reinforce horsehair plaster walls block wifi signal. Ian Get Outlook for

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4GHz - educating end users about interference

I too would like to use it. Ian Lyons Network Engineer Rollins College 407.628.6396 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Skalski Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:29 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Clients unable to obtain an IP address via DHCP

It has bitten us in the butt big time. I have been promised by cisco that the next code version MR5 (.141 is MR4) has the intel issue resolved. We too, even with the latest 19.2 Intel drivers, had issues with devices connecting. For what that is worth. -Original Message- From:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco AP 'flash' bug

Yes, we own that bug too. Pretty much we have every bug ..and have been patching like madmen since July. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Garret Peirce Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:27 AM To:

RE: Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings

They are designed to cover the room itself. Rollins has found that it does do that, even with the furniture covering it. It actually helps limit the signal propagation (2.4). Ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On

RE: Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings

8.2.120.11 is the minimum version I would recommend. 1810 (in my opinion) came out of the factory not completely baked. We bought the first batch of 1810's off the assembly line and they did not have a means to talk to the controller (DNS would not work nor DNS options). We had to manually

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLC Association Failures with reason code 105 and 107

If you have *any* 2802 or 1810 devices, I *strongly* urge you to upgrade. That code fork did not work well with the new gear or in my experience redundant (Active/hot standby) controller designs. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings

off of the wall, but we have been pleasantly surprised thus far as to how few are being damaged. Josh Senn Network Engineer Miami University IT Services 513-529-9676 On Oct 27, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Ian Lyons <ily...@rollins.edu<mailto:ily...@rollins.edu>> wrote: The AP’s are pretty sturd

RE: Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings

opefully the DNS discovery issues have been resolved as we have another 180 or so going in this winter into a new 700 bed building. -dan Dan Brisson Network Engineer University of Vermont From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Beh

RE: Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings

ess Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian Lyons Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 7:52 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w AP

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings

ffective. Again, thank you for the useful information. Best, -- Devyn Moore Network Enterprise Systems Team Leader Campus Wireless Network Engineer Information Technology Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/devyn From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@L

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential buildings

Resources and Technology Bradley University 309-677-2808 sa...@bradley.edu<mailto:sa...@bradley.edu> [Image removed by sender.] On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Ian Lyons <ily...@rollins.edu<mailto:ily...@rollins.edu>> wrote: I agree with that. Shaping, in my experience, is be

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Prime Infrastructure Validated Alternatives

Using it yes. Happily, no. Much better than it was (I am told), but leaves a lot to be desired. “A work in Progress” would be my summation. Ian Lyons Network Engineer Rollins College From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling / Enabling LEDs on APs (special post)

We find that the students put tape (or bandaids-ick) over the lights (if it bothers them). But we cannot get students to call when wifi is down…. But they do like to Yak. So they are not going to call about lights. ;) Merry Christmas From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WLC code recommendations

Yes it is, with a few extras, that will be part of MR6. It's good. Our engineering version is solid. MR6 should be even better. Ian Lyons Rollins College Get Outlook for Android From: Entwistle, Bruce Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 13:51 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WLC code recommendations

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WLC code recommendations

actively being fixed-to be fair. We are running on engineering code and HUGE improvements have been made. Soon, I think/hope, it will be rock solid. Ian Lyons Network Engineer Rollins College From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.E

RE: Cisco WLC code recommendations

Oh my. Run, run far far away. :) 1810's are the buggiest. And require MR5 (Which is not out officially yet) But some bugs that hit the 2802's hard are resolved in MR5. (users not connecting on Intel Chipsets) are resolved in MR5. 8.2.141 is the minimum I would suggest. But MR5 will be out

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4 vs 5

. Okay, maybe not the last part. Ian Lyons Network Engineer Rollins College Get Outlook for Android From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Jake Snyder <jsnyde...@gmail.com>

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4 vs 5

one might hope. Will let everyone know if that changes. On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 21:10 Ian Lyons <ily...@rollins.edu<mailto:ily...@rollins.edu>> wrote: My $.02 You need both bands. Build out your network for 5.0 ghz range circles around an AP (with some over lap) using a progra

RE: Basic design question

As Bruce mentioned, use the freebie app from Airwave and it works well. Plug in the floor plan that the architect gave you and it should be pretty dang close. Ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Osborne,

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] EAP-TLS

What is the process if X user (EduRoam) has a lot of malware and is sharing it on your network. But home institution is 2000 miles away… Black list MAC and call it a day? Notify eduroam? Home institution? Geiger-Counter person and tell them? My guest account requires active phone number

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Consumer devices - SSID or AP blocking/excluding

I would wipe and reset the NIC on the Mac. It does sound out of the norm… but weird things like this usually mean it is time to wipe the nic and reset it. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Lauing Sent:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] New buildings on campus

For ~100$ you can purchase autocad readers. There are some freebies online that will do it too They open the .dwg etc files and allow you to print out and view some even will let you resave it to pdf -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Use of Airtame on school environment

I rolled this out at my old school. Over 150. It worked well. The advancements that Apple made have made a difference. Aruba/Clearpass etc, MDNS -rock solid. The only caveat is that, like most Apple Products, are intended for consumers. There isnt a great product (I know one exists) that

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba OS 6.5.X

Rollins College has 6.5.4.0 (for 303h) and no issues. Some AMON weirdness going to Airwave and the master controller, but nothing critical -looking at data on the controllers with AP's gives us the data we need. A known bug. Ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems?

core from 1 gb to pure 10gb and changed our Firewall to the Cisco FTD platform. So we truly have no benchmarking from last year but a lot of expectations! LOL So far, the students are connecting quickly, successfully and getting to their movies online. Which I call success! Ian Lyons Rollins

RE: Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems?

Rollins is also seeing about 20% less connected users than this time last year. Same enrollment etc Waiting for that shoe to drop From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Sweetser, Frank E Sent: Friday,

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] upgrade from 802.11n to 802.11ac

Quick thoughts Rip and replace will get you partially there (N to AC). However, if you never planned for 5.0ghz “circles” for your AP’s (signal) a rip and replace will leave holes. I suggest *not* using a physical survey..atleast in the traditional sense. (Donning my Nomex Flight suit for the

RE: DHCP Lease Times

If you have Airwave one of the may "dials" is how long is your average connection. Mine is 28 minutes. I set my lease time for WiFi for 1 hour. I have a /19, which might be overkill, but with AD based DNS, I have poor insight into the things that go bump in the night (for DNS) If Cisco, I

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Options

Aruba as well. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv On Behalf Of Norton, Thomas (Network Operations) Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 2:14 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Options I highly

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Particulars about Aruba bracket JY705A AP-200-MNT-W3

Thank you for that. The W3, is a *godsend*. Highly recommend it and very shallow..unlike the normal x mount which sticks way out. Ian Lyons Rollins College From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Amel Caldwell

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

Or a dark alley….-my preference. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11:35 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] devices not

RE: Cisco AP2800 failure rate

What code are you running? There have been numerous reports (on this listserv) about 2800's and code glitches. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv On Behalf Of Sam Ziadeh Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 9:30 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco - Field Notice - 70253 - Wireless Client Fails to Associate: AID Error

ist. -Lee -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv On Behalf Of Ian Lyons Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 8:25 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco - Field Notice - 70253 - Wireless Client Fails to Associate:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco - Field Notice - 70253 - Wireless Client Fails to Associate: AID Error

As a result of the lack of QA, we removed all 1000 of our Cisco AP's and moved to Aruba. Since then, we have had zero problems. Cisco really needs to get their stuff together, their Wireless has not been an Enterprise level product, in my opinion. Ian -Original Message- From: The

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wall plate AP and Coax line sharing box

All our network jacks in rooms are “wall warts” That is they are not in the wall. So like Ken, we just drilled a hole in the box and added a coax connector. Only about 20% of our students use it, we also found out. Ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: gaming on wireless

Which wireless vendor are you? We had a lot of timeouts, lags and disconnects on Cisco gear (1810s)... -firmware was determined to be the cause and patches are ongoing (it has been covered in length in posts) Having said that, without a packetshaper like device/rate limiting (we use

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Offline/Spare Gear Inventory Size

Fascinating. While we are (we are engineers after all) beating the horse senseless, this is interesting to see how others arrive at their decisions. I have always worked for schools where the budget is X. Spend it on spares or get gear out the students, it is on us to make that decision. I

Re: [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality Access Points

Combining the last 2 emails: We use 303 and had used 205's in our dorms. I find them incredibly helpful. With the pass through port (if you have 2 wires in the room, you can keep one "as is" and pass it through) and then have WiFi and wired ports in the student vlan. They are small and fit

Request

Karen who manages the the Group Leaders has asked that we distribute this. We’re running another EDUCAUSE QuickPoll today, this one on focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on the technology workforce. It takes 5 minutes or less to complete. The poll will be open through this evening

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.7

Onno- sorry new phone and auto correct- my sincere apologies Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G, an AT 5G smartphone From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv on behalf of Ian Lyons Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:13:27 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ArubaOS 8.5.0.7

Onto Any word on when the 303H equivalent will ship? Ian Lyons Network Manager Rollins College Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G, an AT 5G smartphone From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv on behalf of Harms, Onno (Aruba WLAN) Sent

Re: Virtual Session Reminder - Network Monitoring Tools -Change of Date

Good Day All Due to Juneteenth, tomorrow, NETMAN & Wireless-LAN are going to officially honor tomorrow as a holiday and other schools have said they will too, therefore we’re going to postpone our meeting for tomorrow to next week (June 26th) in observance of Juneteenth. Sorry for the late

[WIRELESS-LAN] Job Posting @ Rollins College

Message was discarded by filter '\Newsletters\as17_NEWSLETTERS\updates\Normal' on line 78 Envelope (RCP file content): Message-ID: b0114394...@smtp.cranbrook.edu Return-path: owner-wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu Received-From-MTA: listserver.educause.edu (unverified [40.122.144.30])

Re: wifi 7 and beyond intel preso

Is it me, or does it seem like the frequency of new versions is happening at a faster pace. hell at this rate me might actually have AX running before Ver 8 Cheers Ian J Lyons Senior Network Engineer - Rollins College 401.413.1661 Cell 407.628.6396 Desk October is National Cyber Security

Job Posting @ Rollins College

Good Day All We are hiring! https://jobs.educause.edu/jobs/14047629 Network Administrator Cheers Ian J Lyons Senior Network Engineer - Rollins College 401.413.1661 Cell 407.628.6396 Desk October is National Cyber Security Awareness month. Read more about it

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Project

I will provide a disclaimer that "things cloud" are not my favorite-in the regards that you have to prove that your network is not the problem before vendors truly commit in a down/crisis issue. But the new world order is here. Having said that, have people who have gone to the cloud have

Happy 2021! A call for virtual sessions

Good Day Everyone Jeff and Ryan (NETMAN) have proposed on their feed a (TBD) rolling virtual meeting. We have had great luck with the 2 teams working together. In that spirit, please reply to this email or NETMAN with possible topics on what you would like to talk about... Happy 2021

role-based access control (RBAC) Wed 5/26 from 11am-12:30pm EST

Please join us for a joint session between the Commtech, Netman and Wireless CGs as we explore modern network architectures that leverage role-based access control (RBAC) on the road to a zero-trust architecture. We have a series of brief presentations followed by Q and active discussion. Our

Second Call for Virtual sessions..

Subject: Second call for virtual sessions Just a reminder we are looking for feedback and suggestions - so if you have an idea for a topic or you find these interesting, please let us know. Happy 2021 NETMAN (and WIRELESS-LAN). To help get the year off to a good start, we have been

Re: Wi-Fi and Covid

But the question becomes do we tag our students? That is the sticky question. Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G, an AT 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv on behalf of

Meeting today (Mar12) at 2p EST

Topic: NetMan/Wireless LAN Discussion Time: Mar 12, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://unc.zoom.us/j/98246011232 Meeting ID: 982 4601 1232 One tap mobile +13126266799,,98246011232# US (Chicago) +19294362866,,98246011232# US (New York) Dial by your location

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbook zoom wireless dropout issues

47189%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000=iij%2FfpPDj%2FrOxd3jD704DN5AG%2FfY1Pdo2XKa7CLJeW4%3D=0> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv On Behalf Of Ian Lyons Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 9:54 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbook zoom wireless dropout issues

We had a huge upswell of Mac users not being able to connect and the newest OS was at fault. Older macs further away...no issues. Mac's with new OS right under an AP... couldnt connect reliably, huge CPU spikes and or crappy wifi. Ahh, I love Apple. But yeah, in this instance, dont discount

Virtual Session Date Selection Poll

Good Day everyone! Please take a moment to fill out the Doodle Poll to select the date for our next virtual meetup... https://doodle.com/poll/xvhpz73rrm8mx3c3?utm_source=poll_medium=link Cheers Ian J Lyons Network Architect - Rollins College 401.413.1661 Cell 407.628.6396 Desk **

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

receiving some tickets for 14.7 and it seems like the bad behavior is back. Our solution to restore connectivity is to have them turn off the private MAC address setting for our SSID(s). Thanks, Brad From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv On Behalf Of Ian Lyons Sent:

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

Same environment (6.x to 8.x) but no, radius is fine for us. We are on 535's with older 325/303's. (we are AOS 8.6.0.10 which seems -knock on wood -very stable) Our issue is with IOS 14.7 and Crestron Airmedia2's -I suspect the privacy settings are causing us issues. Same Apple hardware ~

Re: Ekahau Licensing Chat

Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv on behalf of Ian Lyons Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 17:10 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ekahau Licensing Chat * External Email * https://rollins.webex.com/meet/ilyons<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?

Ekahau Update

Good Day Everyone! Eric and I were happy to host a meeting with many of you about Ekahau last Friday. We had a peak of 28 folks and an average of 18! Thank you for coming! The meeting started with introductions and that lasted about the first 20 min or so. Steve (VP Global Sales) and Stewart

Re: Ekahau Licensing Chat

Listserv On Behalf Of Ian Lyons Sent: July 27, 2021 3:11 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ekahau Licensing Chat Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know

Meeting is now _Ekahau

https://rollins.webex.com/join/ilyons [https://rollins.webex.com/mw3300/mywebex/html/img/webexball_opengraph_new.png] Meet virtually with Cisco Webex. Anytime, anywhere, on any device. Simple, modern video meetings for

Meeting Ended -Ekahau

The meeting ended and I will over the weekend type up notes and send them to the group. I recorded the meeting but must figure out how that works to send it to a group. It was a fruitful meeting with a lot of view points shared. Ian and Eric Cheers Ian J Lyons Network Architect - Rollins

Ekahau Update

I have touched base with Steve and the rest of the group. Steve has an proposal in front of corporate and will reach back to us first week of October. Standby. Ian Cheers Ian J Lyons Network Architect - Rollins College 401.413.1661 Cell 407.628.6396 Desk ** Replies to EDUCAUSE

Ekahau Licensing Chat

https://rollins.webex.com/meet/ilyons Good Day Everyone! A few weeks ago, there was an exchange of information regarding the new licensing at Ekahau. The sentiment was not missed by a neutral third party who knows someone at Ekahau. This person reached out to Eric and me, inquiring about