We have a little over 2900 APs online
We have only run into a few devices that a driver update or tweak of the
roaming aggressiveness won't fix the problem.
Driver update is one of the first troubleshooting steps on our Help
Desk's wireless script.
Roaming aggressiveness problems usually gets kicked to tier 2, which has
access to the controllers to watch what a client is doing.
Virtual Port (aka per station BSSID) fixed the 3945 problems, while
causing a few other devices to not work well. Luckily those devices,
realtek for one, are in the extreme minority.
jim
On 3/10/2010 6:24 AM, R. Smit wrote:
Hello,
I have a question for other Universities who are using Meru wireless
802.11n networks. We are in the process of doing a Proof of Concept on
Meru's technology of single cell architecture. We ran into a few issues
and I was wondering how other universities are dealing with these kind
of issues or maybe they didn't experience any issues at all.
We noticed that clients with older drivers were unable to connect to the
Meru network but after updating the drivers it worked fine. For example
Intel 3945ABG chipset needed the 12.x driver to connect. So the default
driver in Microsoft Vista is out dated. We have about 40,000 students
and they all have their own laptop. Does anyone had to deal with this
kind of problems? And how did you manage it in a large environment?
Does anyone experience that Meru is very demanding on client
configuration and driver and hardware versions?
Thanks.
Regards,
Richard Smit
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
University of Professional Education
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