I wasn't under the impression that a wii could connect to an enterprise wireless network? Am I wrong?
-- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Adam Forsyth Sent: 19 March 2013 14:00 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds So Bruce, You disable the 1Mbps rate, and leave 2Mbps rate enabled so the Wii's can connect. Do you disable any of the other 802.11b rates as well? I turned off all of the B rates a few years ago but then quickly learned about the Wii issue. While I like the solution of keeping the b rates off and telling the wii users to use an ethernet cable, we have a few locations where students live that are wireless only, so that option doesn't work for us. I ended up relenting and turning the B rates back on to make the Wii users happy. Reading this conversation I'm thinking about taking another shot at disabling some of the slower rates, but leaving 2Mbps for the Wii people. On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Osborne, Bruce W <bosbo...@liberty.edu<mailto:bosbo...@liberty.edu>> wrote: Actually, only early OS Nntendo Wii needed 1 mbps. They need 2 mbps, though. We have had 1 mbps disabled for years with no adverse effects. Bruce Osborne Wireless Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229<tel:%28434%29%20592-4229> LIBERTY UNIVERSITY 40 Years of Training Champions for Christ: 1971-2011 ________________________________ From: Palmer J.D.F. [j.d.f.pal...@swansea.ac.uk<mailto:j.d.f.pal...@swansea.ac.uk>] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 3:06 PM Subject: Re: 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<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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