Hi, We haven't had the need to explore this as yet. We run two SSIDs, one for guest access and eduroam. Most of our devices seem to be Apple devices which are reasonably successful at picking 5GHz over 2.4GHz.
We've found that band select seems to be behaving as advertised but we haven't investigated in depth. Cheers, Tristan On 11 Aug 2014, at 4:32 pm, Jason Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > HI All, > > I’m sure I’ve seen discussions like this but can’t seem find any. > > Has anyone gone down the path of creating 5ghz only SSID’s simply to get > around the issue of devices connecting at 2.4ghz even though they support > 5ghz? We find this occurs a lot and in the dense environments users have a > pretty average time using 2.4 or swapping between 2.4 and 5. So far in > testing having a 5ghz only SSID has helped a lot. > > This unfortunately provides another SSID in the air, but the benefits should > be worth it. > Currently we have > UofA (primary SSID) > UofA-help (open SSID with web-redirect to guides/documentation) > eduroam > We are looking at creating > UofA Premium > Or a different word(gold, Ultra, platinum etc), just something that makes > someone want to use it if they see it. The current workaround uses UofA 5ghz, > however a technical name isn’t the best idea as it means nothing to most > users. > > So has anyone else taken this path? What naming did you use, anything that > seems less bland that premium would be goodJ > > Apart from that has anyone successfully worked around the issue of devices > connecting at 2.4ghz despite being 5ghz capable using another method? Cisco’s > Band Select doesn’t impress. Some devices can be configured to prefer 5ghz, > but this is very limited. > > Regards > > Jason > > -- > Jason Cook > Technology Services > The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 > Ph : +61 8 8313 4800 > e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > CRICOS Provider Number 00123M > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains > information which may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the > intended recipient please do not read, save, forward, disclose, or copy the > contents of this email. If this email has been sent to you in error, please > notify the sender by reply email and delete this email and any copies or > links to this email completely and immediately from your system. No > representation is made that this email is free of viruses. Virus scanning is > recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found > athttp://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
