Sorry to drum up an old thread, but I am contemplating disabling 802.11b. We have not had any users on 'b' in the last 6 months and are confident about turning it off. One question I do have for those of you that use Cisco controllers, is how are you turning 'b' off? I talked to a network consultant and they said to go into each WLAN and set the "Radio Policy" option to "802.11a/g Only" and that would take care of it. It looks like most in this thread change the data rates to disabled under Wireless > 802.11b/g/n > Network. I am curious to know which method is better and what your settings look like. We are running code line 7.0 but will be upgrading to 7.2 soon if that makes a difference.
Thanks, Alan On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jeffrey Sessler <[email protected]>wrote: > So if you have a dense deployment of AP's, then leaving the lower rates > enabled should not present an issue - at least I've not seen one. > Additionally, as my campus is 75% Macintosh, they tend to connect at 5GHz, > so I don't mind having the lower rates enabled in 2.4GHz to help out all > the gaming devices and such. > > Jeff > > > >>> On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 5:54 AM, in message < > [email protected]>, "Todd M. Hall" < > [email protected]> wrote: > This has been discussed in the past, but it has been a long time. > > We're at the point that we have to turn off the lower connection rates on > our > campus. I'm curious what other schools have done and the > positive/negative > results from the changes. We have disabled 1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps in some > of > our buildings with great success, but some might argue to just eliminate 1 > & 2 > Mbps rates. Also, I'd be interested to hear from schools that have not > disabled > these rates and why not. > > -- > Todd M. Hall > Sr. Network Analyst > Information Technology Services > Mississippi State University > [email protected] > > ********** > 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/. > > -- Alan Nord, CCNA Network Administrator Information Technology Services Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
