I have one other comment about placing the APs in the rooms.
When we had the APs (Aruba AP-125) in the hallways, on the walls, some of the APs in the male dorms suffered antenna damage and it was difficult to isolate who caused the issue to bill for damages. Now theAPs are in the rooms, we have a small group of students (the residents in the room) who are responsible for any breakage. Since the APs have been moved into the roms, we have not had any antenna breakage. Bruce Osborne Wireless Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY 40 Years of Training Champions for Christ: 1971-2011 ________________________________ From: John Kaftan [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:42 AM Subject: Re: students per AP in residence halls 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]<mailto:[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]<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. ---------------------------------------------------------- Tom O'Donnell Senior Manager of Network and Server Systems Information Technology Services University of Maine at Farmington (207) 778-7336<tel:%28207%29%20778-7336> ********** 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
