David Blahut wrote: > Hello All, > > > > We are a Cisco CAPWAP shop and recently switched from non-encrypted web > portal authenticated wireless to WPA2/802.1X/AES encrypted wireless with > RADIUS and LDAP in the back end. I have received several help desk > tickets with reports along the lines that “now that we are using the > encrypted wireless the signal is weaker or unusable”. > > > > Anyone else experience this phenomenon? I can’t believe it’s the > wireless network, same radios after all. I could see the client > interpreting the signal level differently or the client associating to a > more distant access point because the closer one is more heavily taxed > due to the encryption. I could even see that the encrypted wireless is > more sensitive to RF interference. > > > > Anyway, any thoughts or ideas are welcomed.
We get occasional complaints like this from users on our WPA2 network - generally, checking the logs shows that their client was roaming between APs at the time, and the time to break down the connection and authenticate a new one is interpreted as "lag" by the end user. -- Matt Gracie (716) 888-8378 Information Security Administrator grac...@canisius.edu Canisius College ITS Buffalo, NY http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
