RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] protecting AP's in a gym?

Our approach was pretty simple – we installed clock protection cages around the APs. They are metal wire and inexpensive. Thanks, Chris Adams University of North Georgia From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv On Behalf Of Tim Tyler Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 11:21

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wall plate APs and shared wall plates?

We’ve done the exact same thing for locations we’ve added hospitality WAPs to that had multiple data ports and coax. Cheap and easy. Thanks, Chris Adams, M.S., CISSP Associate CIO, Network & Telecom Division of Information Technology University of North Georgia From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Iss

RE: Wireless Only in Student Housing?

1. We still offer wired/wireless, although we don’t install 1 port per pillow any more but rather 1 port per room to cut costs. We generally colocate the drops with coax. 2. Fewer ports has translated to lower cost of LV and switches. Hospitality WAPs seem to be a good compromise to keep

RE: Wireless Only in Student Housing?

This raises an interesting point, somewhat tangential to the original conversation. How do you determine & maintain a list of “supported” residential network devices? If someone brings in a later gen PS4 and has connectivity issues, will your staff lay hands on the device to resolve the connect

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Options

We use Aerohive, we are approaching ~1,900 WAPs across 5 campuses. 2) Our experience with the product has overall been good, we’ve seen good hardware options available and have seen continuous improvement in the management system. The newer system fixes many of our issues with the legacy classi

RE: Detection Methodology for Bluetooth Credit Card Skmmers ?

This app comes or similar to mind, I do not have any experience with it though. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=skimmerscammer.skimmerscammer&hl=en Thanks, Chris Adams, CISSP Assistant CIO, Network & Telecom Division of Information Technology University of North Georgia E-Mail: c

RE: Apple Home Pod

We had our first ticket come in today requesting connectivity assistance in a dorm for Home Pod. According to the info provided to me, it sounds like the device doesn't play well if the source device and the pod are not on the same SSID and the home pod doesn't appear to support 802.1x. For exam

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Door Locks?

Chuck, I think one of the biggest considerations for Wi-Fi locks is having a SLA or MOU for how network operations & maintenance would interact with the party responsible for the locks. The main justification for using Wi-Fi locks (that I’ve heard, anyway) is the reduced cost of bringing the do

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Portable Power for Mesh APs

It looks like this is for temporary use, but what kind of runtimes are you getting from this unit with a WAP attached? Thanks, Chris Adams From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of James Helzerman Sent: Saturday, Oct

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] New Crazy Wireless Devices

What challenges have you experienced with the Nintendo Switch? Dot1x support? Thanks, Chris Adams, CISSP Assistant CIO, Network & Telecom Division of Information Technology University of North Georgia E-Mail: chris.ad...@ung.edu | Office: (706) 867-2891 From: The EDU

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Backup power

Sandra, We are also an APC customer, but it looks like our parts differ a bit from others. We use the SMX1500RM2UNC model on our MDF/IDF locations. With the SMX series, X is for extended runtime and allow for additional battery packs to be added for more runtime. This part number also is a c

RE: Dynamic vs Static Channel Plans

Todd, The question of DFS is an interesting one. Per the DFS specification, devices certified to use DFS spectrum must be able to actively detect and avoid the use of DFS frequencies used by radar. With the use of WAPs that are approved by the FCC for use within DFS spectrum, there is an assumptio

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dorm Wireless Authentication

We handle our non-802.1x dorm devices using Aerohive's PPSK implementation. We allow 1 device per key and drop them in a VLAN that is not enforced by our NAC. PPSK are handed our by our ITSD and the keys automatically roll each calendar year. Thanks, Chris Adams, CISSP Director, Network & Tel

RE: Disney's Free Wi-Fi

I am impressed that a networking professional had a vacation long and quiet enough to enjoy an amusement park. Well done, Hector! Thanks, Chris Adams, CISSP Director, Network & Telecom Services Division of Information Technology University of North Georgia E-Mail: chris.ad...@ung.edu

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Design question

I would discourage the use of estimating by square footage alone. For planning preferences, in high density areas (classroom buildings, auditoriums) we usually shoot for 1 AP for every 30 seats capacity according to fire marshal's capacities. This has proven to be exponentially more accurate to

Large Wireless Deployment Addressing

All, I wanted to poll the group and see what strategies you are using at your Universities for client addressing on large wireless networks. We are revisiting how we address and segment our wireless LAN largely due to the need to accommodate large events and sports arenas. We have operated with

RE: Microsoft NPS as RADIUS for 802.1X Wi-Fi?

Edward, Take a look and see if the BlueCoats can receive RADIUS accounting messages. I've been able to perform EAP-PEAP client identification with Fortigate units by forwarding accounting radius messages from NPS to the firewalls. Thanks, Chris Adams, CISSP Director, Network & Te

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Internal bandwidth testing applications

I’ve had great success using a linux host running iperf, and using an appropriate client app. There is jperf which has a graphical interface for windows, as well as clients available for android and apple IOS. I prefer using jperf internally as it helps to separate a WAP or RF issue from intern

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco ISE

To offer a different perspective, we are an Aerohive wireless shop. For our dorm wireless, we offer two SSIDs – one that is 802.1x for general consumption, and a second for media devices. On the media device SSID, we have employed an Aerohive proprietary system called PPSK – private pre-share

RE: point to point wireless bridge

Bruce, We have a remote proctor site adjacent to one of our campuses that has been online for 7 months using a pair of Ubiquiti Airfiber 5. The testing site is CCTV intensive and we see ~300Mbps across this link very reliability pretty much all day long. We also push standard network and VoIP

RE: Top P2P apps as classified by shapers?

Lee, We use Fortinet Fortigate appliances extensively with great success at handling P2P traffic. As a whole, we generally block the entire FortiGuard P2P category (among others), and then whitelist legitimate applications higher in the policy set. Skype, Steam, and Battle.net are a few exa

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

tp://twitter.com/larrydougher> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/larrydougher> | 802.674.8336 On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Chris Adams (IT) mailto:chris.ad...@ung.edu> > wrote: Larry, We have deployed 802.11ac WAPs in many locations, but only have 80mhz channels en

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fiber experince

I got a sales pitch from this group today also. One line of interest, in this white paper from their website: http://wi-fiber.us/casestudies/Georgetown%20Prep%20Wireless%20Giga%20Campus.pdf “Donation: wi-fiber will donate all wireless devices and the associated network management equipmen

RE: Access Point Failure Rate

Jason, School: University of North Georgia Brand: Aerohive Access Point Count: 1200 RMA Replacements in the last year: 5 (Calendar year 2015) Failure rate: 0.4% We have had 1 unit fail this year due to a busted water heater soaking it in a residence hall. I believe all of the failu

RE: Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

I think this raises an interesting challenge that I've faced too: should we enact a minimum specification requirement (ex. no 802.11a/b) for wireless network access? For student PCs that our service desk supports, we have minimum requirements, IE Windows versions, AV vendors, etc. Outside of th

RE: Pros/Cons of implementing Optimized Roaming on Cisco Controller

Will, What lower data rates do you have enabled on your 2.4ghz and 5ghz radios? Most of our sticky client issues were fixed by disabling the lower data rates available. Thanks, Chris Adams, CISSP Director, Network & Telecom Services Division of Information Technology Universit

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

Phillipe, I would suggest that it’s not always an issue of the client not supporting 5ghz, but rather that some deployments are not conducive to good 5ghz propagation – we’ve all seen WAPs in hallways between classrooms before. In my experience, clients that associate to 2.4ghz are doing so

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

gt; | 802.674.8336 On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Chris Adams (IT) mailto:chris.ad...@ung.edu> > wrote: Larry, We have deployed 802.11ac WAPs in many locations, but only have 80mhz channels enabled sparingly around campus. My hope is that by having the SDR option, we could

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

.8336 On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Chris Adams (IT) mailto:chris.ad...@ung.edu> > wrote: I echo Jeremy’s sentiment – our experience with band-steering has been overwhelmingly positive. We are also not (currently) using DFS channels – but may be revisiting this soon. I’d estimate almost 2/

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

I echo Jeremy’s sentiment – our experience with band-steering has been overwhelmingly positive. We are also not (currently) using DFS channels – but may be revisiting this soon. I’d estimate almost 2/3 of our 2.4ghz radios are disabled. I am very happy to see the new Aerohive AP250 has a SDR

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who WiFi vendors does everyone use? REVISITED

School name University of North Georgia Total number of clients served (faculty + staff + students + guess at guests) during a typical school day Around 26,000 unique clients, depending upon the day Brand(s) of APs in use and approximate number of APs for each brand Aerohive - Around 120

RE: Self-registered MAC device bypass- worth the headaches?

We are using Aerohive PPSK for media devices on our residential network as well. We have a RESNet-Media SSID for gaming consoles, smart-TVs, streaming media devices, and other non-802.1x compliant devices to connect to. We strictly enforce 1 key per device connection limits to avoid abuse.

RE: Current state of DAS in Higher Ed?

I think this is very likely the case. In the end, it’s a pretty sweet deal for the carriers – reducing the amount of infrastructure they are responsible for in the future, and incidentally transferring some of the responsibility for quality of the call/SMS/MMS experience onto those who provide w

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Sticky Clients and Probe Suppression

We have typically achieved this by disabling lower data rates available per SSID. Thanks, Chris Adams Director, Network & Telecom Services Division of Information Technology University of North Georgia E-Mail: chris.ad...@ung.edu | Office: (706) 867-289

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Purpose-Built Wireless Coverage in Stairwells and Elevators

I have seen POE IP Cameras in (newer) elevators – I’m sure additional ethernet drops could be included at the time of installation. Retrofitting into existing elevators may be a more difficult task. Thanks, Chris Adams Director, Network & Telecom Services Division of Information Technology Uni

RE: Minimum Standards

We are having a similar conversation on our campuses. As technology / wireless folks, we want to provide as much access as we reasonably can. But with 802.11b and/or low data rates, there is a risk/reward that has to be observed. Risk: If 802.11b / low data rates are enabled, and you have clients