The RF design gets a little difficult if you have long straight hallways
lined with AP's. Too many AP's hearing each other causes problems for
channel and power planning. Placing them in the rooms made sense for us
from an accountability perspective as well as for a more manageable RF
design.
Joe
On 03/17/2011 12:31 PM, John Kaftan wrote:
I have always thought we would install in the hallways. For those of
you who have said they install in student rooms I'd like to understand
when and why you do so. I've assumed that we would want to always
have access in case an AP goes south.
John Kaftan
Infrastructure Manager
Utica College
315.792.3102
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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Peter P
Morrissey
*Sent:* Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:23 PM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure
We're going on about 3,000 installed, and I think one may have been
vandalized. Our students love their wireless and seem to understand
what makes it possible. There is clearly no ROI for enclosures. You
can install a lot of extra wireless connectivity for the price you
would pay for the enclosures and invest in a couple of spares for
insurance. Hall phones are another matter. Those get destroyed on a
regular basis.
Pete M.
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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Joe Rogers
*Sent:* Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:16 PM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure
We too elected to install our residence hall access points without
protective enclosures. So far there have been no issues in the past
~4 years with the approximately 1100 we have deployed. We do normally
place them into student rooms rather than hallways or common areas so
that we know who to talk to if there ever is a problem.
Joe
On 03/17/2011 12:08 PM, Michael P Hizny wrote:
We installed AP enclosures in our first dorm building when we went
wireless. After that we decided to take a chance and see what
happened instead of adding the extra cost. The students see the
wireless as a great service. In 4 years we have not had one
vandalized. We have over 800 of them installed in our residence halls
on both the walls and on the ceiling.
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<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] *On Behalf Of *John Kaftan
*Sent:* Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:40 AM
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*Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure
Has anybody found a good solution for AP enclosures? Our older
Residence Halls do not have drop ceilings so we cannot hide the APs.
We have found that most things visible get destroyed. Our standard
APs have internal antennas so I'd like to find a box that is RF
transparent. I found one by Oberon Model 1025 but at $240 ea I don't
see us making it happen. I do have some older APs I can use that are
a\b\g that have external antennas that I can use if need be.
http://oberonwireless.com/outdoor_nema-access-point-enclosures.php
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