Remember that while a minimum RSSI is still important; with as dense as things have gotten, the bigger challenge these days is keeping up with density while keeping ACI and CCI to a minimum. Having good a good RSSI is useless if you've got four dozen clients all vying for a time slice to get their frames through.
-Luke On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Hugh Flemington <[email protected] > wrote: > We're going down the road to wireless coverage everywhere and are using > minimum -65 as our design intent in both 2.4 and 5 Ghz. It's more of a > vision right now but there's been a fair amount of new construction > recently and we've tried to keep to that plan. We've got two new > residences starting construction now (5 floors 272 students, 9 floors 272 > students) and they'll be the first with the full coverage. > > Our wireless coverage in public and classroom space has been pretty good > but was based on the laptop user sitting in one location. We're challenged > now by the lower power handheld devices and the movement so we're drafting > plans to revisit and retrofit building by building. > Hugh > > Hugh Flemington > Queen's University > Kingston Canada > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nathan Hay > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi planning > > The cutoff for Cisco wireless phones in 5Ghz is -67 per their design guide > for voice and I use closer to -70 in 2.4 Ghz for data-only deployments. > These are all low-density deployments however, so YMMV for dorms. > > > Nathan Hay > Network Engineer | NOC > WinWholesale Inc. > 888-225-5947 > > > > From: "Barros, Jacob" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 12/11/2013 04:27 PM > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi planning > Sent by: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > <[email protected]> > > > > We are going into dorm rooms over winter break to review ap placement. Do > any of you have a policy (written or unwritten) that sets a minimum RSSI > for a space? For example, if the RSSI is -65 or lower then you shuffle or > add an ap to the area? > > > > Jake Barros | Network Administrator | Office of Information Technology > Grace College and Seminary | Winona Lake, IN | 574.372.5100 x6178 > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > > > ********************************************************************************************* > This email message and any attachments is for use only by the named > addressee(s) and may contain confidential, privileged and/or proprietary > information. If you have received this message in error, please > immediately notify the sender and delete and destroy the message and all > copies. All unauthorized direct or indirect use or disclosure of this > message is strictly prohibited. No right to confidentiality or privilege > is waived or lost by any error in transmission. > > ********************************************************************************************* > > ********** > 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/. > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Luke Jenkins Network Engineer Weber State University ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
