We only went with the option of turning off the data rates, so I can't attest to what your consultant is telling you, but the way we did it worked exactly as we intended. Here's a look at the settings from one of our controllers.
[cid:[email protected]] Andy Page University of Notre Dame From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Nord Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 1:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>>, >>> "Todd M. Hall" <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.<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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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