Thanks for all the feedback.
Our proposed plan would be to leave our campus wide SSID enabled on both
bands with band steering enabled, then just enable a 5GHz only SSID in the
dorms.
We figured we would call the SSID UI-Wireless-5GHz rather than Fast or
High Speed because that might set
We use a separate ssid for 5Ghz on our Ruckus devices. We mainly do it
to provide N series devices a clear channel. By default, if they can't
see the new ssid than they are using old stuff and we urge students to
upgrade.
Harry Rauch Sr. Network Analyst Eckerd College 4200 - 54th Ave S St.
We considered a 5Ghz SSID too but declined for the same reasons that
Karl noted. Our vendor suggested band steering. We have only done
minimal testing with band steering but it seems promising. I had 30
clients connected to a single AP in our testing with only 2.4 enabled.
When I turned
Band steering is favorable when you have similar coverage areas on both 2.4 and
5 ghz. That should be a given nowadays, however, with the adoption of 11n. I
recommend folks evaluate their RF designs first prior to tinkering with these
types of feature sets. Tune down your 2.4 so it's similar to
