Philippe, Thank you for the information, it is going to make my research a lot easier. As well to all who has given me some great insight on some of the challenges. We will eventually get wireless in all the dorms. We actually are going to do 2 large dorms this summer with Aruba AP 65's (around 100 more AP's). I would like for us to just bite the bullet and if the pro's out weigh the con's hopefully management will agree with me. Thanks again Brian
Brian J David Network Systems Engineer Boston College -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open source code for AP's Brian, This is something we wanted to do as well in our dorms last summer, but we then balanced convenience versus price and decided to spend some money on a CBA architecture, to sleep better at night. I still believe that the system would have been great. Ethan Sommer at gac.edu did a presentation at Educause about their deployment of Linksys APs. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/UsingConsumerLinuxBasedAc/42004 Here is how we wanted to do it at Univ of TN: -Open-Wrt on Linksys APs -use PoE http://www.webpowerswitch.com -Take the existing cat5 circuit in the student room and let the student use ports on the linksys to replace the lost port (no wiring cost) For management, with the money that you save, hire a full time coder(proficient in SNMP)/WLAN engineer ;-) Philippe ---------------------------------- Philippe Hanset University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Information Technology Network Services 108 James D Hoskins Library 1400 Cumberland Ave Knoxville, TN 37996 Tel: 1-865-9746555 ---------------------------------- On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Brian J David wrote: > I was wondering if there are other schools who have deployed or where > thinking of deploying open source code flashed access points. > The students want wireless in the dorms as you all know but because of > budget and time we are looking into some alternative temporary solutions, > like dd-wrt flashed linksys access points. We where thinking of deploying a > pre-configured AP with the antenna power setting set to it's lowest power > level and a few other minor configuration. I know this could be a challenge > in managing these devices (although they have appliances/software out there > that can manage them). If we could give the students an alternative to > bringing into their dorm a rogue AP until we can get a permanent wireless > infrastructure the benefits "could" out weight the headaches. > Comments? > > Brian J David > Network Systems Engineer > Boston College > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
