Same here at Univ of TN, a lot of idle ports and Wired mostly for
gamers!
I'm starting to think that we should turn most swichtes off in dorms
(Climate Changes!),
provide wireless for free, and enable wired (a la carte). Having one
48 ports switch in each IDF
should be enough to feed wireless and "a la carte" requests. What a
saving in energy, support,
and heat issues!
Next step: put all gamers in one dorm ;-)
Philippe
On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Lee H Badman wrote:
Mike-
We are 100% covered with capacity-driven wireless in our residence
halls. But, we still have at least a wired port per pillow. That
being said, we now see our once-busy wired res nets running between
75-90% idle. A lot of ports just sitting there...
Lee
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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless-only in residence halls
Wondering if anyone has successfully implemented a wireless-only
network
in their residence halls. If so, how is it working out?
Was this a planned migration away from an "aging" wired jack
infrastructure or was it new construction? Are you doing this with
802.11n, b/g, a or "everything? Any pitfalls? Did you still leave
"some"
client jacks around or were you able to go "full-blown" wireless?
We have older (Cat 3 or worse) horizontal and are starting discussions
around abandoning the wires and just installing home runs for APs.
Any fresh advice would be greatly appreciated (saw an old thread
from 2005).
Regards,
Mike
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Network Analyst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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