Have any of you added a section to orientation that discusses the problem of interference and did it have good results. YES, mixed results. Did any of you do a poster campaign with good results or did you issue a Faraday cage to each student to store their stuff in (yes that was a joke) YES on the posters, no on the Faraday cage :)
Like Josh said below, 5Ghz is the way to go. However, it is disappointing how MOST smart phones and many tablets only work on the 2.4Ghz. Marcelo Lew Wireless Enterprise Administrator University Technology Services University of Denver Desk: (303) 871-6523 Cell: (303) 669-4217 Fax: (303) 871-5900 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robertson, Joshua A. Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Interference in dorms. Currently we're addressing this issue by installing the 3500 series Cisco Clean Air Access Points in all of our dorms and increasing the number of APs in the dorms while we do it. These access points do interference detection and will map it in Cisco WCS. I have a feeling it's probably going to look pretty scary once the students move back in, but with the ability to see what's causing the interference we can start better addressing it and educating our users. Also by deploying more APs we're hoping that more devices will use 5ghz instead of 2.4. Josh Robertson Network Systems Senior Engineer Old Dominion University Office of Computing & Communications Services (757)683-5046 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://occs.odu.edu/ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lay, Daniel Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Interference in dorms. Last year we had several students that would complain about poor wireless coverage in their rooms. It was usually followed by the comment that they did not have this problem at home or in other areas of the campus. After performing various test and wireless scans I am of the opinion that a good portion of these problems were introduced by the students themselves by bringing in various devices that emit 2.4 interference. I am curious about how any of you guys have addressed this problem and informed the students of these potential interferences. Have any of you added a section to orientation that discusses the problem of interference and did it have good results. Did any of you do a poster campaign with good results or did you issue a Faraday cage to each student to store their stuff in (yes that was a joke). I can only see this problem getting worse with wireless printers and game consoles that all have a potential to cause interference. I am open to any ideas and or suggestions. Thanks. Daniel Lay Networking Specialist Samford University ________________________________ Spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=531692329&m=806a26c22aee&t=20110721&c=s> Not spam<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=531692329&m=806a26c22aee&t=20110721&c=n> Forget previous vote<https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=531692329&m=806a26c22aee&t=20110721&c=f> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. . ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
