John Rodkey wrote:
Build a Faraday cage around each classroom. [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage ] Embed wire mesh in all
walls, remove all windows, replace wooden doors with steel. Your
financial people will look askance on this, and future technologist
who are now required by the faculty to ensure high wireless signal
levels in every square centimeter of campus (especially classrooms)
will curse the day you were born, but you will have provided a
solution within the limits you've requested.
Seriously: you can't really talk with faculty about the ubiquity of
wireless signals and the need to have a workable strategy and
classroom discipline technique that allows for proper use of those
signals? This is really the conversation that needs to be happening.
As the saying goes, you need to win the hearts and the minds. Faculty
need to win their students' hearts and minds on this front.
Otherwise, you will have set the stage for a perpetual guerrilla warfare.
John Rodkey
Associate Director of IT
Westmont College
We had such an experience. We couldn't fathom why an AP in a room in
one of our buildings couldn't make it through the walls. We puzzled
over this, and fitted more APs, but then an "old-timer" round here
mentioned that the building used to be an X-Ray Clinic, many moons ago.
Turns out it has lead sheet on the walls.
We only had a request like this once. We used the strategy starting with "Seriously", above..
Best,
--
ian
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