New 802.11ac book from Matthew Gast

2013-09-03 Thread Charles Spurgeon
FYI. Matthew Gast has just published a 152 page book on 802.11ac, called 802.11ac: A Survival Guide. Published by O'Reilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027768.do I purchased the ebook version (DRM free!) and found it to be quite informative. Recommended. -Charles Charles E. Spurgeon

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Signal variability after upgrade to 7.0.116

2011-09-09 Thread Charles Spurgeon
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:53:18PM +, Lay, Daniel wrote: We have experienced a similar issue. I had 1131's in several buildings and coverage was decent. At the time that was acceptable because wireless was treated as an convenience. Now perceptions have changed to wireless is

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Wireless Controller Software Advisory

2010-08-03 Thread Charles Spurgeon
Our test of 6.0.199.0 on a single WiSM WLC with 15 production APs resulted in about 150-175K OSAPI-4-MUTEX_LOCK_FAILED error messages logged every 24 hours. The WLC otherwise was operating normally and there did not appear to be any client impact, but there are only a couple of dozen clients on

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Client DHCP issues after WLC upgrade

2010-03-19 Thread Charles Spurgeon
Although the AssureWave doc lists the CSCtd84852 bugID as a caveat in 6.0.196.0 code, that bugID it is superseded by CSCte08161. The new bugID says the issue is fixed in AP code 12.4(21a)JHA. We just upgraded our system to 6.0.196.0 and the APs are now running 12.4(21a)JHA code. The latest v6.0

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiSM 5.2.193

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Spurgeon
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:13:29AM -0500, Hector J Rios wrote: Has anybody upgraded to 5.2.193? Can you provide any feedback? We have upgraded 31 WLCs from 4.2.130.0 to 5.2.193.0, with no operational issues seen and no problems reported for clients so far. We have approx 3,500 APs, and the

FYI: Wireless performance report from England finds 802.11 protocol overhead and other issues

2009-05-20 Thread Charles Spurgeon
FYI - A recent Slashdot posting mentioned an analysis of WiFi performance in England that was commissioned by Ofcom (communications regulatory office in England). A Register article on the Ofcom report notes that baby monitors and other devices were causing signal degradation issues and that

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiSM Code- Revisited

2009-01-21 Thread Charles Spurgeon
We're not using 4.2.176, but we've had 30 WLCs on 4.2.130 code since July 08 with a current load of 3,000 APs and a client peak load of over 9,000 concurrent users. WLC operations have been stable, but we don't run any Web services on the WLCs and our WLC configs are non-standard WRT RF Groups

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FYI: Cisco controllers may put radios on UNII-2e channels

2008-09-11 Thread Charles Spurgeon
tested this with. Maybe others have some as well to add to a list of either working or not. Thanks, -- Don Wright Brown University CIS - NTG On 9/10/08 10:41 AM, Charles Spurgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI. This documents something that we have stumbled over with UNII-2e

WiFi Client Interface 5 GHz Channel Test Spreadsheet

2008-09-11 Thread Charles Spurgeon
If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pvI5m65uYyGaZlGrZV7fxFA WiFi Client Interface 5 GHz Channel Test Spreadsheet This form is provided to help automate the process of collecting test information on

FYI: Cisco controllers may put radios on UNII-2e channels

2008-09-10 Thread Charles Spurgeon
FYI. This documents something that we have stumbled over with UNII-2e channels and is a heads up for anyone running Cisco LWAPP gear and using the auto channel selection component of RRM (Dynamic Channel Assignment (DCA) in Cisco-speak). The Cisco WLC release notes for v4.1.185.0 have an

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 1, 2 Mbps- revisit

2008-05-29 Thread Charles Spurgeon
We tried this out on a couple of LWAPP controllers with several busy buildings in April and it appeared to significantly improve the channel performance. Our rough measurements of AP co-channel interference showed a reduction in CCI (less channel time being occupied by beacons), and iperf

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Latest Stable WiSM Code?

2008-05-01 Thread Charles Spurgeon
The 4.2.112.0 version may well fix the bug that you are working with TAC, but be advised that 4.2.112.0 is crashing for us every few days on a production controller. It has never crashed in the lab, but started crashing once it had been installed in our first real world test of it. This WiSM

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open Wireless in Higher Ed

2008-04-05 Thread Charles Spurgeon
Peter, I very much appreciated your contribution, and found the paper to be a useful overview of the territory. While your affiliation with Aruba was clear, I thought you did a good job of describing the basics of the architectures without leaving an impression of excessive bias. Obviously

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba's SCA vs. MCA whitepaper [was: Open Wireless in Higher Ed]

2008-04-01 Thread Charles Spurgeon
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:25:06AM -0400, Dave Molta wrote: I agree with Chuck about the need for better information about WLAN scalability. It's an issue I've struggled with for many years but I'm not optimistic about a resolution. I've discussed this issue extensively with Phil Belanger, the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba's SCA vs. MCA whitepaper [was: Open Wireless in Higher Ed]

2008-03-31 Thread Charles Spurgeon
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:31:50PM -0500, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: I wish it was easier to evaluate the performance (not only aggregrate throughput, but also QoS) of the MCA and SCA products in various scenarios and density and usage, but unfortunately examining the impact of co-channel

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Leopard/802.1x question

2007-11-02 Thread Charles Spurgeon
Sounds familiar. Here's the help doc we've created at UT Austin for Leopard dot1x config: http://www.utexas.edu/its/support/topics/leopard/restricted.php -Charles Charles E. Spurgeon / UTnet UT Austin ITS / Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 512.475.9265 On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:53:45AM -0400,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WCS 4.2

2007-11-02 Thread Charles Spurgeon
Doug, Thanks for the posting. I thought that each WLC on a WiSM can download 10 APs at a time. In 4.1.185.0 code we typically see 9 APs being download at a time when doing a bulk AP upgrade to LWAPP. On our 1230 APs the download seems to take approx 1.5 to 2 minutes. It sounds like you are

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiSM/6500 and LWAPP

2007-10-01 Thread Charles Spurgeon
I agree, the WiSM/WLC docs are unimpressive. This FAQ has some useful bit and pieces: http://cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/ps6366/products_qanda_item09186a008064a991.shtml Note that Cisco has recently re-engineered the radio resource management (RRM) system to make it more stable. You need

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco LWAPP

2006-09-21 Thread Charles Spurgeon
Todd, Many thanks for your replies to the issue list from Lee Badman. I wanted to ask for more info on your response to point 10, in which you said that you had to disable cdp in order to get lwapp radios to come up. Am I reading that correctly? We're working on a WiSM deployment beginning