You might also want to try restricting the channel that people use. Give them one channel to operate on and a power requirement. This way your production network will have more room to breathe.
Justin
Michael Dickson wrote:
The Cisco 1230G AP's supports tweaking the OFDM Transmitter Power from 1mW to 100mW. Perhaps other AP's support power tuning as well. Selecting a channel that is not actually in that classroom and turning down the AP power might enable instructional (developmental) b/g channels to be used in a localized fashion. Suppressing SSID and creating profiles on the clients machines might also help in ensuring the rights clients are finding the right AP, and folks outside the classrooms will see only the production AP's.
Mike
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Paul Grieggs wrote:
Our campus wireless policy reserves the 2.4GHz bands for our production wireless network. In situations where our professors want to teach about wireless networks, we have been using 802.11a equipment to isolate the wireless teaching labs. With the dual-band chip sets, it is getting hard to find 802.11a only equipment. Most new equipment that supports 802.11a can also do 802.11g. Currently, we cannot find 802.11a only PCI cards. We expect we will not be able to find 802.11a only Access Points and PC Cards in the near future.
Short of building RF shielded labs, how are others supporting instruction about wireless networks without damaging production wireless networks?
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