Early on, Aruba's Band Steering had similar issues, but that was later corrected. I have not tried Cisco's band select, though.
Bruce Osborne Wireless Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY 40 Years of Training Champions for Christ: 1971-2011 ________________________________ From: Danny Eaton [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:26 AM Subject: Re: Disabling 802.11b speeds We’ve seen some issues with some laptops (Mac’s, and Ubuntu) when band select is enabled. Several of our CS professors are using Ubuntu, and apparently the band select feature doesn’t play very well with their installation, so for the that building’s WLC, we had to disable it. Has anyone else noticed/seen this? From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Nord Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 3:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds 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. <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Andy Page Sent: 08 March 2013 19:08 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 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. [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]<mailto:[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. 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