We've had this issue and are looking at the feasibility and cost of
moving the AP's into the rooms. We initially started with a coverage
model and not a AP per Student model. Now we're moving more to the per
student model, but haven't determined what the numbers are going to look
like.
As for hotels, all the ones I've been in recently that have wifi have an
AP in each room.
drob
On 1/21/2013 11:34 PM, Tristan Gulyas 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]
<mailto:[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.
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