Thanks/Tristan James Interesting that without bandselect you are finding most devices are happily connecting at 5. Though most of our complaints on this issue come from non OS X users so perhaps Apple have it working quite well now. We do find a few OSX hosts that stick with 2.4, but a lot of them tend to move around a bit. We have a about a 50% split 2.4 and 5ghz clients when looking at concurrent stats, though what we don't know easily is which 2.4ghz clients can do 5. Exporting some data and playing with it should provide that though.... if Prime will let me export what I need. Not all our installs are suitable for 5ghz only since the AP density isn't high enough. Don't know of any 5ghz only AP's, I'm sure Cisco did do that in the past and the single band AP's were cheaper.
Tristan, Interesting that band select seems to be working well, we used to run it but seemed to have some potential issues and noted a few others around also having some. After disabling it there were less reports of connection issues. It's been disabled for a few years, so perhaps it's time to look into it again.. Anyone else have recent success or issues enabled Band Select? Whether Cisco or another vendors version? -- Jason Cook The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 4800 e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Andrewartha Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2014 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Naming & 5ghz On 12/08/14 11:52, Tristan Gulyas wrote: > 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. We're a primarily Apple school, and I don't even have band select enabled and 81% of my clients are on 5GHz. Most of our SSIDs are on 5GHz and 2.4GHz, with the Guest SSID only on 2.4GHz in most places. We do have 1 AP per classroom (yes, I know, it made sense when iPads only had 20Mhz/1SS 802.11n). Which vendors offer 5GHz-only APs? Particularly with 802.11ac being 5GHz only and performing best at short ranges, it seems like a great way to provide fill-in coverage and performance, as well as staying within 803.3af. -- James Andrewartha Network & Projects Engineer Christ Church Grammar School Claremont, Western Australia Ph. (08) 9442 1757 Mob. 0424 160 877 ********** 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/.
