Hi Tom. The issue we've had is not one of density but one of coverage; in some site surveys we'e conducted recently in our residential spaces, we are finding that one AP might cover only a small amount of students, say, 6-12 reliably.
The challenges have been that our residential halls are old, double-brick with all sorts of reinforcement. We are site surveying for 2.4GHz - we can't justify the cost of a high density deployment to support 5GHz everywhere. I have also noticed that HP produce a small active wall-outlet switch+AP which is PoE powered. It is b/g/n 2.4GHz-only (sigh) and is aimed at the hospitality industry. Where are people placing their APs? We currently place them in the corridor, however our challenge has been that the APs see each other and RRM wants to drop the power levels. We also run into issues if we have more than three APs in direct line of sight. I'm curious - how do hotels deal with this problem? They have similar construction and requirements. Cheers, Tristan > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Tom O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering what other schools have for a ratio of students to > AP's in the residence halls, either definitely or approximately? > > If you have such a number, how do you count dual-band AP's? They're > doing more than a 2.4GHz AP, but not quite as much as two AP's. > > Then one last related question... Would anyone know their relative mix > of 2.4GHz vs. 5GHz connections in residence halls? > > Thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Tom O'Donnell > Senior Manager of Network and Server Systems > Information Technology Services > University of Maine at Farmington > (207) 778-7336 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
