Thanks to all who responded.food for thought.
One area that I was looking for a comment on (and no one did which is an
answer in it's self). I was wondering if anyone segregates users types in
the RF. egkeep students in the 2.4 and admin in 5.0 or with channel
overlays (with virtual
The closest we get to segmenting via RF is that we use 11B/G for general
coverage(websurfing, email, etc). We use 11A in the classrooms. At
first 11A could only be found in the classrooms. Now we activate 11a
everywhere we have an AP. However we disable the radio or use
terminators for
-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Jamie Savage
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:37 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] separating 'types' of users
Thanks to all who responded.food for thought.
One area that I was looking for a comment on (and no one did which
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[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Jamie Savage
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 2:33 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] separating 'types' of users
Hi,
We're entertaining
@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] separating 'types' of users
Hi,
We're entertaining the idea of providing separate wireless services
to our academic and admin communities. Currently, we have a single SSID
that we broadcast campus-wide that everyone uses. We could simply
provide
You could set it up so each user is dropped into a different vlan based
on authentication, though from what I've seen that can be a bit
involved. I've never really looked into it too much because we just do
separate SSIDs/subnets to control what services are available to what
network (via
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] separating 'types' of users
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
