Thanks everyone, for the great replies to my post. The Xirrus arrays are interesting, and may come into play if budgets improve. What we are going to do for the time being, is to remove the b/g only AP's from the room, and move 3 a/b/g AP's to the ceiling. We'll also prohibit the lower bandwidths. Within a year or so we'll be moving to n. John
> -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of heath.barnhart > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Large numbers of clients in one room > > John, > > As everyone else has said, adding APs to the room might cause some big > problems with interference. At Washburn we use Xirrus wireless arrays > to > provide high density coverage all over campus. Each array as multiple > directional radios that can operate either frequency ranges (or both > with 8 radio or higher models) and they now have draft 2 N stuff as > well. If you are looking at purchasing a solution to your problem you > might look into them. Otherwise I would check the positioning of your > current radios to optimize coverage. > > Heath > > John York wrote: > > Hi > > We have a small installation with about 40 Cisco lwap's (b/g) running > on > > a Cisco 4402. I've just gotten a request from a group that wants to > run > > 50+ clients in one room. The last time we tried that about 4 years > ago, > > it was a disaster. We had fat AP's at the time. There were a lot of > > Mac's, and they kept grabbing each other instead of the AP's. Ugh. > How > > do folks handle this now? With my current system can I just throw a > > couple more AP's in the room and let them have at it? > > Thanks > > John > > > > John York > > Blue Ridge Community College, VA > > > > ********** > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > > > > -- > Heath Barnhart > Asst. Systems and Networking Admin > Information Systems and Services > Washburn University > Topeka, KS 66621 > > ********** > 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/.
