Hi Matthew,
We are currently deploying a new Aruba network with ClearPass after evaluating
both them and Extreme pretty heavily. ClearPass was one of the major deciding
factors in us ending up with Aruba. As Frank and Russ mentioned, it is very
full-featured. We are using the RADIUS
Hi Charles,
Yes, we are running a separate SSID for that kind of stuff. We have a web form
where students register MAC addresses. We subscribe to the dorm should be just
like home theory that Lee described. We do our best to support whatever gaming
and entertainment devices that show up.
We
Hi Robert,
We have at least a couple hundred Xbox 360s connecting regularly, but I have
never seen that issue. Does that happen when the network setup is done
manually, as opposed to choosing the network from the list of available
networks?
Matt Barber ‘06
Network and Systems Manager
If you talk to enough people, you can find horror stories for pretty much every
vendor out there. And the true cause of the horror is often debatable, as the
blame is probably equally spread between the vendors themselves and the
resellers/integrators working on some of those projects.
I'd
Hi Jim,
I also get this question/request a couple times a year. I flat-out refuse to do
it. There are so many issues (coverage of other spaces, the students have
cellular connectivity too, managing the changes, etc.) but those play a very
small part in us not doing it.
We simply don't do it
Hi all,
I am currently troubleshooting an issue in one of our residence halls that
appears to be related to some kind of non-802.11 wireless device. Cognio (now
Cisco of course :) ) Spectrum Expert shows an unknown 2.4 GHz device, sometimes
taking up to 90% of the duty cycle on seemingly
Hi Randy,
Morrisville has been a happy Meru customer since 2007. We have over 800 AP320s
blanketing the entire campus. We were their first 11n customer on a new
controller platform, so we had our share of bugs, but Meru helped us through
them years ago.
I’d be happy to answer any specific
. The
wireless one is apparently not used.
They probably should list the wired mac address in both places.
Bruce Osborne
Network Engineer - Wireless NAC
Liberty University
From: Barber, Matt [barbe...@morrisville.edu]
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:13 AM
Subject: Re
As far as I can tell, this is by design and happens with the older Xbox 360 as
well. Students have to register those devices here, so I always have them get
the MAC address from the Dashboard interface, because the one printed on the
wireless adapter is not used.
Matt Barber
Network and
I'll chime in here too, with our approach. The majority of our dorms are
wireless only, so we can't really push people onto the wired network to avoid
things like this. We wouldn't want to do that anyway, however, as the dorms are
home for our students. The great majority of students are coming
Normally, these services do a whole backup, then only the changes afterwards.
So it could just be the initial backup. I did the same thing with Carbonite
recently, and besides taking a while with a relatively slow upload, there were
no issues. My ISP certainly didn't let me know they cared :)
Hi Marcelo,
Your proposed solution is how we handled it. We have a separate SSID using PSK
and MAC filtering. Our web folks made a page to register devices. Students just
enter their username, what type of device it is, and the MAC address. I
manually handle the entry, because students will
Michael Dickson 413.545.9639
Network Analyst Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
On 2/19/2010 2:26 PM, Barber, Matt wrote:
Hi Marcelo,
Your proposed solution is how we handled it. We have
Williams
IT Department
719-255-3597
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University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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Hi Steve,
We do not limit services on our wireless or wired networks. We put in 11n to
hopefully keep ahead of local bottlenecks (for a while at least). To prevent
the Internet connection from getting too congested, we use a NetEqualizer box
to fairly distribute throughput to each user. That
Hi Dennis,
I have seen something sort of similar with some Realtek adapters that are in
some of the ASUS EeePCs. Are you trying to connect to an 11n network?
It turns out that some new Realtek adapters are single-stream 11n. We had been
previously requiring that 11n clients support all of the
Hi Matt,
We phased out two remaining WPA networks in the last couple months. We
had a couple setup initially because we expected lots of clients that
could not support WPA2, either because of hardware or because they were
missing the necessary Windows updates. We did find quite a few people
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Hi Matt,
We phased out two remaining WPA networks
enough to
sort that out on its own?
Cheers
Matt
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Hi James,
We use a single SSID for all normal users, but separate them by VLAN
based on their Active Directory group. Faculty/Staff get put into one,
students into another. That way we can make different firewall or
bandwidth rules based on their subnet.
We use Meru wireless and Windows
frequency . . .
Thanks!
==
Ryan Holland
Network Engineer, Wireless
CIO - Infrastructure
The Ohio State University
614-292-9906 holland@osu.edu
On Jul 29, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Barber, Matt wrote:
Hi John,
I am curious what you mean when you say it's just not how clients
work
It appears to be an OS 3.0 thing. I have the same problem on my 3G. The store
description says they have a 3.0-ready version waiting for approval though.
Matt Barber
Network Analyst
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
I considered it for some of my ESSs, but most of my 11b devices are
connecting on a separate ESS that needs the 1 Mb enabled for the Wii and
Nintendo DS. Thanks Nintendo! L
Matt Barber
Network Analyst
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent
I haven't tried a Wii in a while, this makes me think it may be fixed.
How long have you had the 1 and 2 Mb rates disabled?
Matt Barber
Network Analyst
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
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on all controllers I will get layer 3
mobility anyway.
Scott Irey
Network Telecom Systems Engineer
Oakland University
Office: 248.370.2808
Mobile: 248.505.9827
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Yes
Oakland University
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Hi Scott,
I plugged a wired client into our wireless client VLAN and captured
promiscuously. I only see ARP traffic for the router in that subnet and
traffic coming straight to me. I don't see any other broadcasts at all.
I do packet captures fairly often and never see broadcasts that I
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Hi Bruce,
We went with two different Linksys dual-band adapters, one PCMCIA and
one USB. The USB is really
think is, are there frequency roaming issues with
connected devices that connect at 5GHz in one building (i.e. res hall)
to a building that only offers 2.4GHz? Do typical wireless clients/cards
adjust quickly to this or is there a sloppy/slow reconnection process?
Mike
Barber, Matt
of laptop that they get
when using the WPC600n. Our team has not investigated the
issue further yet but I suspect that the bus' speed of PCMCIA is the
issue.
Have you faced this? (express cards or USB2.0 don't have this issue)
Philippe
On Apr 27, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Barber, Matt wrote:
Hi
:27 PM, Barber, Matt wrote:
Hey Mike,
The majority of our dorms have been wireless only since 1999. The
campus decided to put up wireless back then instead of wire a drop
for
each pillow. We have continued with that and now have pervasive 11n
everywhere.
For the gaming consoles, all
One microwave oven in each corner of the room, with the doors broken
off, running 24/7.
More seriously, I think the effort is pretty futile. People could just
use 3G/EDGE or bring in a Palm Pre/Blackberry/whatever instead.
Matt Barber
Network Analyst
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
Hi Shane,
We are not a Cisco shop, but I use an iPhone on our WPA2-Enterprise
network every day without issue, including reconnecting after sleep.
Do you have the ability to get an over the air capture of this behavior?
I am curious what kind of traffic you could see when it is failing
Hey Nathan,
We have a couple extra that we are phasing out, but in our final design,
we will end up with:
-MSCwireless - WPA2 Enterprise for the majority of our clients
-MSCdevices - Special SSID for gaming consoles and other handheld stuff
that does not support WPA2
-MSCguest - Restricted
I have offered a few times on the list before, but I am always willing
to speak about Meru as well. We have 750 APs doing a/b/g/n and have
been very satisfied over the last 18 months we have been running them.
Matt Barber
Network Analyst
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
From:
This is exactly what we see as well Jason. The overwhelming majority of
our traffic would end up in the core either way, so having all the WLAN
switching happen there makes sense. We then don't need to tag all of
the wireless client VLANs out to the edge.
Matt Barber
Network Analyst
I would be curious to know which applications they are having problems
with. We have over 50 Touches and iPhones on campus connecting the
wireless, including 5 or so just in our IT staff. We haven't seen any
issues like that. We have had various issues with the devices
connecting, but all of
networks. The solution for us was to enable
fast SSID changing on the controller (we're a cisco shop). Bug ID
CSCsl70043 might have been related, but I didn't dig much deeper once we
solved the problem.
Dave
Barber, Matt wrote:
I would be curious to know which applications they are having
Hi Bruce,
We didn't have a formal test plan, but have had many experiences I am
more than willing to share.
Surveying was pretty interesting, as we deployed before there were any
11n capable tools available. Back in the summer of 2007, we pretty much
just had to make some assumptions and then
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) from an 1252 AP
before I can't see it. That said, I'm designing based on capacity more
than range. In the case that capacity is not an issue, I'm shooting for
50-70 foot spacing between 1252s to maximize 5GHz coverage.
Jeff
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Anyone running 11n
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We are using the Meru 320s, but we ended up with 750 APs covering about
a million square feet. There were no good ways to do an 11n survey when
we needed to though, so we surveyed
I know I would love to hear about it on list if possible. Besides
hearing from Duke at an Educause event a while back, I haven't heard
much from actual customers.
Thanks in advance,
Matt Barber
Network Analyst / PC Support
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
From: The EDUCAUSE
Anyone running 11n in the 2.4 GHz on the 1252s? 20 or 40MHz?
What kind of range from the APs are you seeing?
Matt Barber
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Morrisville State College
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The actual link is http://www.cloudpath.net/, for anyone else wondering
why their website was only a link to MySpace :)
Matt Barber
Network Analyst / PC Support
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053
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Most of the D-Link things you linked to are just wireless client
devices, which in terms of pulling down lots of media, aren't all that
different from PCs doing Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, Amazon streaming, etc.
As digital distribution increases in popularity, which it absolutely
will, guaranteeing a
Hi William,
Thank you very much for this. The report is very fascinating to look
through.
I would also love to see this kind of information from any other places
that have it. I wish I had the time to do that kind of analysis of our
network.
Thanks,
Matt Barber
Network Analyst / PC
fixes were even included.
Jacob Barros
Network Security Administrator
Grace College and Seminary
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Is anyone else still seeing erratic behavior with any iPhones/iPod
Touches running 2.0? I have had some strange problems with mine and
some others here. When trying to connect to my WPA2 PEAP-MSCHAPv2
network, for a while it wouldn't prompt me to accept our self-signed
cert. After resetting the
Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Syracuse University
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Hi all,
Does anyone else have any experience with any USB 5 GHz (dual-band)
802.11n adapters? I have two here, the Linksys WUSB600N and the Netgear
WNDA3100, and neither are impressing me. They both have almost no
configurable options, in terms of setting the adapter to only use a
particular
Hi Lee,
We have been running with the 1 and 2 Mbps data rates disabled for quite
some time. The Meru stuff lets us do it by ESS, which actually ended up
being very helpful because of one issue I found.
We have a separate SSID for devices (iPods, gaming consoles, etc) that
is using WEP.
. Thanks for answering the question, but
now you have me curious- how do you keep regular users off of the SSID
for games?
-Lee
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Hi Keith,
In my experience, you are correct. Per Draft 2.0 (I believe), 11n
clients must use either clear or WPA2/AES to operate at HT rates. My
11n clients here will connect at WPA, but only at 11a/g rates.
Something to be aware of for sure, especially if you want to support
older devices
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