MacBooks will also have issues, certain versions of OS. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Palmer J.D.F. Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:07 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds
You can run a report from within NCS (and no doubt WCS) to give you all users using a particular connection protocol, eg 802.11b. Navigate to... Reports > Report Launch Pad > Client > Unique Clients > Unique Clients Report Details Then select 'All' for 'Report by' and 'Report Criteria', then select '802.11b' from the 'Connection Protocol' from the respective dropdowns. A side note, disabling 1mbs stop Nintendo Wii consoles from associating. Is anyone aware of any other device that is known to suffer when disabling any of the faster speeds? I have Kindle in my mind for some reason when disabling 6mbs. Cheers, Jezz. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Tristan Gulyas Sent: 09 March 2013 03:53 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds Hi, We're looking into this, too. What's the best way to obtain data as to which clients are only 802.11b-capable on a Cisco environment? I do see a few connections at 802.11b data rates but we'd ideally like to know how many legacy devices out there that we have. Cheers, Tristan On 09/03/2013, at 8:22 AM, Alan Nord <an...@macalester.edu<mailto:an...@macalester.edu>> wrote: Thanks for the quick responses. I like the idea of using client band select so I am going to go the same route as many of you and disable the specific data rates. Going to give Andy's config a try. Thanks again! On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Palmer J.D.F. <j.d.f.pal...@swansea.ac.uk<mailto:j.d.f.pal...@swansea.ac.uk>> wrote: Unless something has changed then I understand this is the way to do it if you intend to use Band Select, as Band Select makes it mandatory for all bands/Radio Policies to be enabled. So you enable all Radio Policies (inc .11b), but disable the .11b speeds. >From the footnotes of WLAN > 'SSID Name' > Advanced on the controller >management GUI. 8. Band Select is configurable only when Radio Policy is set to 'All'. Thanks, Jezz. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] On Behalf Of Andy Page Sent: 08 March 2013 19:08 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds 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. <image001.png> Andy Page University of Notre Dame From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Nord Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 1:53 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> 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 <j...@scrippscollege.edu<mailto:j...@scrippscollege.edu>> 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 >>> <pine.osx.4.64.1209270744420....@thall.its.msstate.edu<mailto:pine.osx.4.64.1209270744420....@thall.its.msstate.edu>>, >>> "Todd M. Hall" <t...@msstate.edu<mailto:t...@msstate.edu>> 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. 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