I'm quite surprised that people are experiencing too many devices per ap, as that implies either incredibly dense student packing, or a relatively small number of access points in an area.
We've seen some remarkably attenuating walls and floors, but given contruction details (or best guess given age), that can be overcome. We don't expect through-floor propagation in any modern structure, due to the wrinkly-tin floors, but we also discovered that one of our buildings was once an X-Ray clinic ;) I'm personally not keen on putting equipment into student rooms, as getting back in when it goes wrong tends to be a challenge, as it's ever more onerous getting access. So, what can we do about rogue devices? Suggestions on the back of an estwing fire-ax please. -- ian -----Original Message----- From: Julian Y Koh Sent: 24/02/2013, 17:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey On Feb 22, 2013, at 14:00 , Julian Y Koh <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, there's no need for everyone to respond - as I wrote before, we're going > to be sending the total/aggregate results to the entire list. :) And here we are! Total of 56 responses. Here are the highlights. Please post any additional questions here and I'll see if any of the data will help. Thanks again to everyone!! 1.) Primary equipment vendor: Cisco 55.4% Aruba 26.8% Meru 7.1% Juniper 5.4% 2.) Initial AP placements: Hallways/Common Areas 94.6% Individual Resident Rooms 5.4% 3.) Experiencing issues? Yes 85.7% No 14.3% 4.) Kinds of problems? Too many client devices per AP 64.6% Rogue wireless devices 58.3% High signal attenuation 45.8% Low signal attenuation 14.6% 5.) Options considered to address issues? Adding APs 84.6% Relocation APs 73.1% Changing Vendors 17.3% 6.) New AP placements: Individual Resident Rooms 68.0% Hallways/Common Areas 46.0% 7.) Mount types: Ceilings 89.1% Walls 34.5% Embedded Wall Boxes 10.9% 8.) Success at remediation? Very Successful 45.2% Moderately Successful 31.0% Not Successful 2.4% -- Julian Y. Koh Manager, Network Transport, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 Evanston, IL 60208 847-467-5780 NUIT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** 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/.
