We're looking into a wall-box form factor for our access points. Something along the lines of one of these:
http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/zoneflex-indoor/7025 http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/altitude-4511.aspx http://www.panoptictechnology.com/smart-room-network-jacks/ They're designed to fit into a traditional electrical wall box (like the one that's probably already there for an existing network drop) and they provide a passthrough port, so a student can still plug in a wired device like an xbox without messing the functional parts of the AP. The student may not even know there's an access point there. This won't work for everyone, since the big Aruba/Cisco players don't have this form factor. We're small enough we don't even have a controller and use fat APs. But I thought this was still worth mentioning for those with mixed environments or anyone using Ruckus or Extreme.. As a side note: is anyone else eager for a common AP/Controller interaction standard, to be able to bring one vendor's access points to another's controller? Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology York College, Nebraska 402.363.5603 [email protected] *The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society* On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote: > To that point- I have had to hit manual override on the fabled RRM > algorithm in spots where the APs influence each other to the detriment of > the clients. Typically amounts to setting a new min power level that the > APs are not allowed to go below, and occasionally going old-school setting > fixed power. I find the auto power/channel thing to be good, but not above > reproach. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of phanset > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls > > David, > > Let me add that we cover between 5 to 6 students per AP (we stagger APs > between floors), and when an AP goes down, > we rarely receive a complaint since there is enough overlap between APs. > So we can take some time to fix the problem (referring to the room access > issue). > > As Larry mentioned, we used to have many complaints with our hallway 2.4 > GHz design, we have almost none with our bedroom 5 GHz design. > The cost is different of course! > > BTW, good luck to have a decent coverage at 5 GHz if you plan to cover > from the hallway. The attenuation is atrocious! > It is hard to reach the room, and APs "see" each other in the hallway > forcing the RADIO algorithm to reduce power. > (at least with the kind of buildings that we have at UTK) > > Best, > > Season's Greetings, > > Philippe > www.eduroamus.org > > On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:30 AM, "Jennings, Larry W" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > David, > > During the spring and summer of 2012, the University of Tennessee > Knoxville campus upgraded wireless in the dorms. We had b/g AP's in the > dorm hallways and the wireless complaints were a constant reminder that we > had to do something. We removed the AP's from the hallways and placed AP's > in some of the dorm rooms, taking one of the wired ports for an AP. > Overall, we went from around 600 AP's to 1600 AP's and to 802.11n > throughout in the process. We've had very few calls where students have > messed with the AP's. For rooms that we had to use one of the wired ports, > we allow a small switch to be installed upon request. But we haven't seen > many requests for that. > > > > > > lj > > > > > > Larry Jennings > > IT Manager - Network Services > > The University of Tennessee > > 2309 Kingston Pike Bldg. > > Knoxville, TN 37996 > > Phone: 865.974.1619 > > Email: [email protected] > > SIP: [email protected] > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Robertson > > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:37 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls > > > > We are looking at how we install wireless in our Residence Halls for > coverage. Currently we only place access points in the hallways, but are > looking at moving them into the rooms for better coverage. We were > wondering if anyone else has put the access points in the rooms and if they > have seen a reduction in wireless complaint or if there have been issues > with students playing with or disconnecting the access points. > > > > David R. > > > > -- > > David Robertson > > Service Delivery Manager > > Network Engineering Technology > > George Mason University > > Voice: 703-993-2443 > > Fax: 703-993-3505 > > > > ********** > > 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/. > > ********** > 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/.
