We have the same experience with MacBooks.
On Apple products in general we have found that for 802.1x TTLS seemed
to be more stable then PEAPv0
Jim
On 3/10/2010 11:13 AM, Lee H Badman wrote:
We are not a Meru shop, but have similar driver-related issues on secure
networks. It is my conjecture that this is a way of life on secure networks
where you have a wide range of client device types and driver vintages.
Frustratingly, MacBooks and iPhones tend to be among the most frustrating and
inconsistent clients to deal with.
-Lee
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Adjunct Instructor, iSchool
Syracuse University
315 443-3003
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Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Experiences with Meru
Richard,
We have a campus-wide Meru 802.11n wireless network in place with 802.1x as part of the
picture. Our experience matches yours. I have believed it was our combination of
WPA2-Enterprise and 802.1x that accounted for the inability of older drivers to work with
our implementation. We do run a "guest" network that is not encrypted and I
believe that we have not seen the same issue for those clients.
We urge people to use the Windows Update site using the "Custom" option and
installing any wireless drivers that pop up. We keep the current Intel drivers on a USB
memory stick that hangs next to the help desk service window. We have used it many times.
Happily that install is extremely simple -- just click on one executable, wait a short
time while the updated driver installs and becomes active.
We have found that Windows default network settings don't match our needs. Some
students follow a short step-by-step guide. Most bring them into the help desk.
If we weren't under 1,000 students I would definitely look into the automated
client configuration tools that have recently been mentioned here. I wonder if
those tools also handle driver updates.
Ken
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:24 AM, R. Smit<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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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