I've been moving into the rooms. Often there is duct work in the halls and I have had some issues with students tampering with APs, mostly just unplugging them but one was destroyed. The unplugging is annoying though.
I just sacrifice one of the room ports. So far nobody has complained. I wanted them in the halls initially so I could service them but I just don't need to do that very often. It makes more sense to have killer signal in the rooms and ok signal in the hallways than the other way around. I use a zig zag pattern per floor and I alternate the zig with the zag per floor. Surprisingly, I see very good coverage through the floors. John Kaftan IT Infrastructure Manager Utica College On Jan 21, 2013 11:45 PM, "Tristan Gulyas" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
