RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Band Steering?

2010-08-16 Thread Lee H Badman
In some buildings- particularly precast concrete apartments- on our campus, the loss on 5 GHz signal can be pronounced versus 2.4. Like to the point where 5 is non-existent and 2.4 will support almost full data rate. But this effect varies wildly across our other building types. Here is one of

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] share 802.1x experience? (Eduroam Question)

2010-08-19 Thread Lee H Badman
Phillipe- Good summary. On the topic of Eduroam- any sense of real demand and usage for the service? Thanks- Lee From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset Sent:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 3500 APs and Atheros AR5007 chips

2010-08-22 Thread Lee H Badman
Another question- are you using DHCP proxy in the controllers? -Lee Badman From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Sessler [j...@scrippscollege.edu] Sent: Sunday, August 22,

Student Wireless Printers in Dorms

2010-08-26 Thread Lee H Badman
Is not the first time this topic has been put out there, but the semester opening once again pushes it out front and center. Has anyone found a supportable, comfortable way to squeeze hundreds of $40 wireless printers into your carefully designed and tuned 802.1x-auth/secure residential WLANs?

RRM on Cisco 7.0.98.0

2010-08-26 Thread Lee H Badman
Wondering if anyone else is seeing or thinking that the RRM in 7.0.98.0 might be too aggressively turning power down? I have no hard proof, but a growing body of anecdotal evidence. Thanks- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor

RE: Student Wireless Printers in Dorms

2010-08-26 Thread Lee H Badman
...@gmail.commailto:wlans...@gmail.com From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:08 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student Wireless Printers in Dorms

RE: RRM on Cisco 7.0.98.0

2010-08-27 Thread Lee H Badman
Thanks, Paul- how dense is your deployment, and did you hit on this by trial and error or Cisco recommendation? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From

LG070 (MyLGNet) phones on campus wireless network?

2010-09-02 Thread Lee H Badman
, and learned anything about them that can be shared? Thanks- Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group

RE: LG070 (MyLGNet) phones on campus wireless network?

2010-09-03 Thread Lee H Badman
unreachable. We're checking our edge configs to see if we block the non-80/443 protocols. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:47 AM

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] LG070 (MyLGNet) phones on campus wireless network?

2010-09-13 Thread Lee H Badman
Services Asst Director of Networking (308)865-8176 From:Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu To:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Date:09/13/2010 08:20 AM Subject:Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] LG070 (MyLGNet) phones on campus wireless network? Sent by:The EDUCAUSE Wireless

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless and Apple Clients

2010-09-16 Thread Lee H Badman
that their stuff is actually used away from AirPort bases stations- evidently that's our problem to deal with. -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From

RE: Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-20 Thread Lee H Badman
We have one case seen earlier this year. I do like the idea of simply blocking it as Macintoshes can be annoying enough to support without this sort of foolishness at work. -Lee Badman -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-25 Thread Lee H Badman
Wow- that's one to get a picture of! -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Cortes, Diana Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 5:18 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re:

Android 2.2 disappointing on the secure WLAN- is it just us?

2010-09-29 Thread Lee H Badman
We have three cases of Droid smartphones that worked wonderfully on our 802.1x/WPA2 WLAN on Android 2.1 operating system. Since going to 2.2 with the devices, getting them to connect to the secure wireless network is almost impossible. Open networks are OK. Anyone else seeing this? -Lee

RE: Android 2.2 disappointing on the secure WLAN- is it just us?

2010-09-29 Thread Lee H Badman
So far, is just the Motorola Droid ( not the Incredible, Stupendous, or Totally Rad). From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:55 PM

RE: Wireless Bakeoff

2010-10-04 Thread Lee H Badman
on your current traffic with a/g to try to guess what 11n might do to the same controllers... -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco and DAS

2010-10-04 Thread Lee H Badman
I'll stick my neck out a bit on this. We do not use DAS, but I do understand the intrigue. If I simply had to provide best-effort signal in a given area and didn't really care about data rate, DAS would interest me. But I'd need a lot of convincing to accept that it can reliably support the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] LG070 (MyLGNet) phones on campus wireless network?

2010-10-06 Thread Lee H Badman
Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Norman

AppleTV/ Campus WLAN

2010-10-07 Thread Lee H Badman
Apple has dropped prices on their AppleTV, and we're wondering if it will end meaning anything in the grand scheme from the WLAN support perspective. The unit itself can get network connectivity via Ethernet or wireless (probably not Enterprise security, but I don't know that), and users can

Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... just LDAP with 802.1x.

2010-10-12 Thread Lee H Badman
Here's the backdrop for my questions: For 802.1x authentication on the WLAN, we use PEAP w/ MS-CHAPv2, against our AD environment. This works wonderfully and always has. The rub- we have a set of users not in AD- they are in our ED (LDAP). I'll thank you not to ask why. These LDAP credential

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... just LDAP with 802.1x.

2010-10-12 Thread Lee H Badman
Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 2:09 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... just LDAP with 802.1x. Here's the backdrop for my questions: For 802.1x

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... justLDAP with 802.1x.

2010-10-12 Thread Lee H Badman
University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709 From: Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu Sender: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:08:51 -0400 To: WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... just LDAP with 802.1x.

2010-10-12 Thread Lee H Badman
Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:09 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory and LDAP at the same time

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... just LDAP with 802.1x.

2010-10-13 Thread Lee H Badman
Thanks, Jeroen. I'll start looking into whether Cisco ACS can do multiple EAP types on single network, and if they even support TTLS/PAP. I've not put a lot of time into this, but the feedback on the list has been very helpful (as always). Regards- Lee Badman -Original Message-

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... just LDAP with 802.1x.

2010-10-13 Thread Lee H Badman
It's a good point that we haven't had to deal with yet. When we first got into 802.1x, the mandate on this end was either pretty clear or foolishly incomplete: AD would be the end-all for us. PEAP and MS-CHAPv2 have been a great fit for native supplicants on Windows and Mac, and we like the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] BlackBerry trouble?

2010-10-20 Thread Lee H Badman
Makes you glad it's all standards-based, eh? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Issues

2010-10-28 Thread Lee H Badman
Some things that may help: - disable IPv6 settings on clients - make sure Apple users are on latest code version - make sure massive windows/java updates are not going on at time of trouble. These can hide but make performance crawl. Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network

Exalt Bridges

2010-11-03 Thread Lee H Badman
Can anyone comment on using Exalt bridges, and especially the r5005 for point-to-point links? Cisco is now selling this model and with promised throughputs of 160 Mbps at a price that's not that far from the 1400 series, it does have me interested. Thanks- Lee Badman ** Participation

Erroneous Context Aware Notifications/ (WCS/MSE)

2010-11-04 Thread Lee H Badman
are on the wireless network at the time of the alert. TAC says they've not seen this, so I'm wondering if anyone else has? Thanks- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Observed Signal Strength On Encrypted Wireless

2010-11-06 Thread Lee H Badman
Remember too that bars can be misleading. Multiple SSIDs from the same AP at the same strength often show different bars- this alone can generate help desk calls. Refresh the view a view times, and the bars may change. Different clients calculate and show RSSI (which contributes to the bars

Wi-Fi Direct

2010-11-16 Thread Lee H Badman
Please reference: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20020539-94.html Anyone contemplating useful ways of employing this, policy re-writes to ban it (perhaps in admin areas), or anything in between? -Lee Badman ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Coachcomm system...

2010-11-17 Thread Lee H Badman
Back to fundamentals... I can't find much of technical specifics on the Coachcomm Tempest NG beyond that they use frequency hopping in 2.4 GHz and are not impacted by other nearby wireless devices, by their claims. That is not to say they are claiming to not interfere WITH other things (that I

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] DAS; are your happy with the DAS installation?

2010-11-18 Thread Lee H Badman
Julian- What generation of Wi-Fi do you use with your DAS (11a/g/n)? Do you find that perceived and or actual measured network performance changes with the DAS versus stock antennas? -Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi blockers in classrooms

2010-11-18 Thread Lee H Badman
You may have a hard time locating a solution that sits well with the FCC and other regulatory agencies, even if you can find something that promises to meet the goal. -Lee From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi blockers in classrooms

2010-11-18 Thread Lee H Badman
I didn't say this... use a dummy AP at higher power with same SSID in the room. I don't know who said that. - The Lone Stranger From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Luis Fernando

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi blockers in classrooms

2010-11-19 Thread Lee H Badman
You make an excellent point. I also teach part time, but would be my own worst student. Unless the material is absolutely riveting and the instructor totally engaging, I easily get bored to the point of daydreaming. Connectivity helps me either productively screw off or to get closer to the

Anyone Using Mobile Iron To Manage Smartphones on Campus?

2010-12-03 Thread Lee H Badman
Hello- Wondering if anyone is using MobileIron to manage and secure mobile devices on campus? Regards- Lee Badman ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Mount hidden or in plain view in dorms?

2010-12-06 Thread Lee H Badman
We've opted to use Cisco's latest Blue Laser of Punishment technology to vaporize those who would tamper with our APs. It's a bit controversial, but we figure after the first person is zapped, everyone else will get the point. Blue lasers can be seen at around 1:35 into this high-quality

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Parking Decks

2010-12-08 Thread Lee H Badman
We did have a request from tailgaters to provide signal in a couple of lots for pre-game festivities- they like to watch ESPN3, etc. As an experiment, we were able to leverage the back of bleachers for mounting and had a very conveniently located press box to feed access points with high-gain

Cisco ACS 5.1/CAPWAP Wireless and 802.1x question

2010-12-17 Thread Lee H Badman
We've recently moved from our venerable Cisco ACS 3.3.3 to ACS 5.1. Since the move, on our 802.1x WPA2 network, we get occasional and not easily replicated user issues on either authentication or fast reauthentication (PEAP w/ MSCHAPv2) where ACS shows: client sent result TLV indicating

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Printing in Dorm Rooms

2011-01-03 Thread Lee H Badman
Would be nice to somehow get all of us in higher ed facing the wireless printing dorm challenge to petition the likes of HP to have them work with us for a solution that works for both users and admins... -Lee From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues

RE: Cisco ACS 5.1/CAPWAP Wireless and 802.1x question

2011-01-18 Thread Lee H Badman
] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 3:42 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco ACS 5.1/CAPWAP Wireless and 802.1x question We've recently moved from our venerable Cisco ACS 3.3.3 to ACS 5.1. Since the move, on our 802.1x WPA2 network, we get

Wireless Printers/Wi-Fi Direct, couple of other devices

2011-02-15 Thread Lee H Badman
Wondering if anyone is kicking tires yet on Wi-Fi direct products? There aren't many of them out yet as of last time I checked, but I'm pondering if this might provide any help in any way for dorm environments and personal printers. And- for what it's worth... We have found that the Nook Color

RE: Android and WPA2?

2011-02-16 Thread Lee H Badman
Running Android 2.2? Known issue on the OS itself. Lots of chatter online. Like the following: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=7f71ff06702e39e1 -Lee From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

Wifi and spectrometers?

2011-02-22 Thread Lee H Badman
We're about to take the campus wireless into some new areas and getting some concern voiced about possible negative impact on both noble gas and IR spectrometers. Before I start researching a defense, has anyone else already been down this road? Lee Badman ** Participation and

RE: Wireless Planning

2011-03-07 Thread Lee H Badman
If your libraries are anything like ours, I wouldn't get overly hung up on bookshelves as permanent objects- we se frequent rearranging. A bit denser deployment is worth it to not have to redesign everytime shelves move. Regards- Lee Badman From: The

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPad spontaneous reboots?

2011-03-10 Thread Lee H Badman
One add- these are 3G/Wi-Fi models, actually with both radios on- in the NYC area, if that makes any difference. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Reynolds, Walter Sent:

RE: Non-Java network speed test server?

2011-03-14 Thread Lee H Badman
I do agree- this one is quite nice. But to clarify, I'm looking for a non-Java tool that can be run inside our network, that doesn't require going off to the Internet as speedtest.net does. -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor

Non-Java network speed test server?

2011-03-14 Thread Lee H Badman
a non-Java speedtest utility locally (not on the Internet) that they can recommend? I am aware of the Visualware app that works on iDevices- not a good fit for a couple of reasons. Ideally would be a simple URL-based utility for handhelds.' Thanks- Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Site Survey cost

2011-03-14 Thread Lee H Badman
I'll do it for $1500 a floor! -Lee From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike King [m...@mpking.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:03 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPad spontaneous reboots?

2011-03-15 Thread Lee H Badman
There are lots of discussions like this online: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2599544 where it happens with enterprise and home networks alike. in our case Apple didn't hesitate to tell us to go to 4.3. I was in the same location witha pre-4.3 iPad for almost 24 hours and

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure

2011-03-17 Thread Lee H Badman
We have a couple of spots where ductwork-laden soffits and similar made being in the hallway a bad choice, and so we moved into student rooms where necessary. But as a rule, we stay in common spaces. Bear in mind- for highly accurate location services, the down the middle design approach is

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi on campus buses

2011-03-18 Thread Lee H Badman
When we looked into it, the bus company wasn't interested as they can't do every bus and rotate the busses that get used on campus. Also, our commutes are pretty short in general. And... The growing number of smartphones does make it less interesting of an idea. -Lee Badman

IPv6, Wireless Clients in Cisco Environment

2011-03-22 Thread Lee H Badman
, but it very well could be something with the LLTD (Microsoft's Link Layer stuff) for all I know. Has anyone else experienced this somewhat random condition, and bothered to try to nail down what is happening when it occurs? Thanks very much- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer

using Twitter in your support processes?

2011-03-22 Thread Lee H Badman
Apologies to the double posting for those of you on both lists. My blog here says it all: http://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless/learning-to-be-a-twit.php I'm seeing clients want to use Twitter to gripe or cry for help in ways that traditionally should/would result in trouble tickets. We

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WLC code

2011-03-22 Thread Lee H Badman
I have never, ever liked the Cisco guest portal. We had specific guest requirements, and engaged Bluesocket. They worked with us to give us exactly what we wanted in function, and it is quite elegant for a university setting. Contact me if you'd like more information. -Lee Badman

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WISM and Dorm wireless

2011-03-29 Thread Lee H Badman
, it is worth remembering that 300 Mbps data rate is moot to a certain point. I'm just sayin... Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: Wireless to the Rescue...

2011-04-01 Thread Lee H Badman
the military? (I was Air Force- 10 + years for me- this would have made perfect sense to me in that environment). Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues

Apple Support

2011-04-12 Thread Lee H Badman
support. Love your show, Bewildered in Upstate Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can

RE: Strange Cisco AP problem

2011-04-17 Thread Lee H Badman
This condition got to be so bad for us on 6.0.199.4 code in certain buildings that I had scheduled AP reboots nightly. Got better after going to 7 code, but was maddening and Cisco was of little help. You are certainly not unique in this condition. Lee Badman

RE: Unknown Interfering Device

2011-04-19 Thread Lee H Badman
Have you figured out how large of an area is being affected? From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barber, Matt [barbe...@morrisville.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:34 PM

Anyone been to Haiti since the earthquake?

2011-04-20 Thread Lee H Badman
. Thanks- Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone been to Haiti since the earthquake?

2011-04-20 Thread Lee H Badman
Thanks, Tim- I have been following the Inveneo initiatives, and they are certainly interesting. -Lee From: Tim Pozar [mailto:po...@lns.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 6:39 PM To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv Cc: Lee H Badman Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone

RE: N analysis tool

2011-04-28 Thread Lee H Badman
more. At the same time, you don't have to go broke buying a decent support platform either. Cheers- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group

Overseas Branch Campus/Meraki

2011-05-19 Thread Lee H Badman
, in the form of satisfaction or disappointment. Thanks- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion

RE: Experiences with Cypress Envirosystems wireless product?

2011-05-24 Thread Lee H Badman
It would also be interesting to know what a channel amounts to for this system. A lot of utility stuff is 1 MHz wide channel. -Lee Badman -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Danner,

Cisco outdoor mesh in use?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee H Badman
I've played with the outdoor mesh part of Cisco controller based wireless, but not in prod- tapping streetlight power, figuring out how to mount on poles that don't necessarily want thinks mounted on them, etc. For those who gone the real mesh route in outdoor areas on campus- especially with

RE: Dual radio APs, .11n on 2.4ghz radios or not?

2011-05-31 Thread Lee H Badman
One of my long running beefs with controller based systems is that data rates settings are per controller. Would be nice to be able to set the two APs I might need for scanners to 11b rates, while letting the other 498 do no less than 5.5. Perhaps I want too much... Sigh. This technology

RE: Dual radio APs, .11n on 2.4ghz radios or not?

2011-06-01 Thread Lee H Badman
Hi Bruce- Your confusion is justified. Though I was at the Aruba conference, I am a Cisco customer. I should have put a finer point on my lament- I wish ALL controller-based wireless systems allowed for per AP settings like data rate variances. :) Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dual radio APs, .11n on 2.4ghz radios or not?

2011-06-01 Thread Lee H Badman
having all rates enabled would have an impact on your system. That is, very small chance of distant clients, and enough AP's to ensure that the 1/10 of 1% B clients have little to no impact. Jeff Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu 5/31/2011 4:20 PM One of my long running beefs with controller

RE: Wireless design

2011-06-10 Thread Lee H Badman
Just to chime in the topic of restricting traffic- bear in mind that applications like Facetime and synching things like Documents to Go between iPads and PCs do get impacted by what my seem like otherwise good segregation methodology. This can be the source of much consternation. From: The

Apple Lion AirDrop- anyone sized it up yet?

2011-06-20 Thread Lee H Badman
Reference http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/10/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_airdrop_local_file_sharing.html or other similar articles on this file sharing feature. I'm assuming it does dynamic ad hoc networking between Lion clients under the covers, but not sure quite what it means to

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS devices on wireless

2011-06-24 Thread Lee H Badman
Would be nice if Apple updated Bonjour or ditched it and got with the fact that enterprise networks are not built on Airports and single subnets... From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] ATT WiFi

2011-07-21 Thread Lee H Badman
Ryan- Do you feel there has been any real value to OSU, or any downside? Thanks- Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] ATT WiFi

2011-07-21 Thread Lee H Badman
you have anyway, you can off load some of their data to their pipe. -d On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edumailto:lhbad...@syr.edu wrote: Ryan- Do you feel there has been any real value to OSU, or any downside? Thanks- Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] ATT WiFi

2011-07-21 Thread Lee H Badman
, Wireless Office of the Chief Information Officer The Ohio State University 614-292-9906tel:614-292-9906 holland@osu.edumailto:holland@osu.edu Submit a Kudos to an OCIO employee!http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/514095/giveociokudos On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Lee H Badman wrote

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Interference in dorms.

2011-07-21 Thread Lee H Badman
times the range! Tastes great! Less filling!) which is fine, if you are willing to live with it. Wireless is a technology where it’s hard to have it all at the exact same instant in time, and it’s even harder to explain why this is the case to people. One man’s opinion on a hot day. -Lee Lee H

ATT Wireless On Campus

2011-08-10 Thread Lee H Badman
Does anyone who has gone down the ATT We'll be your WiFi service in your stadium! road feel like entertaining questions off list? Thanks- Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003

Prey Project- Open Source Device Tracking

2011-08-16 Thread Lee H Badman
This was brought to my attention this morning: http://preyproject.com Has anyone used it? Feedback? -Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Prey Project- Open Source Device Tracking

2011-08-17 Thread Lee H Badman
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 Instructor

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus

2011-08-17 Thread Lee H Badman
the power, but it comes with trade-offs. I guess I'm wondering how much of the Ruckus advantages are philosophical (simply use less APs at higher power to cover same space) and how much is technical wizardry. Thanks- Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology

Any Cisco Fat AP Shops in Need Of...

2011-08-17 Thread Lee H Badman
)! -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus

2011-08-17 Thread Lee H Badman
Listserv Cc: Lee H Badman Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus 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

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus

2011-08-17 Thread Lee H Badman
impressive and three weeks in, we're quite happy so far. Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus

2011-08-17 Thread Lee H Badman
@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:27 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus Excellent information, Harry- Thanks. I have a feeling Cisco cringes to read that 3500 APs were tested with 4402s instead of 5508 controllers

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MacOS Lion Wireless Password Resets

2011-09-01 Thread Lee H Badman
Known apple bug. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ryan Holland [holland@osu.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 2:35 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MacOS Lion Wireless Password Resets

2011-09-01 Thread Lee H Badman
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MacOS Lion Wireless Password Resets Is that posted somewhere? How is it known that it is known? === Ryan Holland (sent while mobile) On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote: Known apple bug

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] MacOS Lion Wireless Password Resets

2011-09-02 Thread Lee H Badman
Lee, I was the one that submitted that bug id. I know their database knows about it, but I'm less confident that Apple engineers know about it. I guess we will see with the next 10.7 update that comes out. . . === Ryan Holland (sent while mobile) On Sep 1, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Lee H Badman

Cisco mesh combinations?

2011-09-15 Thread Lee H Badman
Don't think me too daffy for asking... does anyone know if Cisco's big honkin' 1500 access points can mesh with/to/from the likes of 1130s? Thanks- Lee Badman ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in dorms

2011-09-19 Thread Lee H Badman
At the risk of being seen as shameless in self-promotion, I just wrote a brief piece about Extreme Networks Snap On WiFi (built on Motorola under the hood) Altitude 4511. If you buy into the philosophy, and under the right conditions I would, no additional wiring needed beyond the Cat 5 already

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in dorms

2011-09-20 Thread Lee H Badman
that both the wireless client experience and system admin halves of the equation were a good fit with the rest of my IT environment (auth, NAC, quarantine, etc) and that scaling to my ultimate largest would be OK before signing. Lee H. Badman (In this case, Network Computing Magazine blogger

Ticket Master Wireless Scanners- Campus sporting Venues, Campus Wireless

2011-09-22 Thread Lee H Badman
Does anyone else have Ticket Master scanners in use, wirelessly checking tickets for validity at your sporting venues that also have your campus wireless in the facility? Are you running with Ticket master's own WLAN as a competing wireless island alongside yours, or were you able to adapt

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ticket Master Wireless Scanners- Campus sporting Venues, Campus Wireless

2011-09-22 Thread Lee H Badman
Thanks everyone. Marcelo and Caroline- have you found that giving up a channel is problematic to your own system? I'm guessing you don't have real dense deployments in the facilities? Again- thanks for the dialogue. -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ticket Master Wireless Scanners- Campus sporting Venues, Campus Wireless

2011-09-22 Thread Lee H Badman
Still supporting 1 Mbps for this, by chance? -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Kell Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:29 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Prey Project- Open Source Device Tracking

2011-09-27 Thread Lee H Badman
Administrator The Masters School Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 From: Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edumailto:lhbad...@syr.edu Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:51:25 -0400 To: WIRELESS

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off TKIP to enable N

2011-09-28 Thread Lee H Badman
also happily do WPA2/AES (enterprise). Of course, that doesn’t help with all of the toys that show up only able to do WPA-pre-share... sigh. Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003

RE: Betr.: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disappointing numbers of 5ghz clients

2011-09-29 Thread Lee H Badman
hundreds of clients individually to see what they are at. Has anyone found any sort of data rate trending/reporting mechanism to use as you turn off legacy rates? Regards- Lee Badman Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool

RE: Betr.: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disappointing numbers of 5ghz clients

2011-09-29 Thread Lee H Badman
the information that you are looking for. Karl From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] on behalf of Lee H Badman [lhbad...@syr.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:25 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN

RE: Visitor access

2011-10-14 Thread Lee H Badman
for our needs that our big honkin' WLAN architecture couldn't come close to solving. -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

Supporting Your Italian Campuses?

2011-10-22 Thread Lee H Badman
Using the power of the Interweb, I see that a number of schools have Italian campuses. Do any of you provide support for your Italian centers, have you done (or coordinated) any installation work of wired or wireless networks at them, and would you be willing to field questions off list on the

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