Just a heads up, we had W-M_Wireless and W-M_Wireless_Turbo. People figured out that the turbo network was faster. We thought that was a little more transparent than "premium".
We eventually abandoned the idea, as most clients were correctly choosing the 5 GHz radios anyway. In addition, clients had to be set to prefer your turbo network. This wasn't always the case. I don't think think the second SSID really helped the overall adoption of 5 GHz. Hopefully your mileage will vary :) Norman Elton College of William & Mary On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Jason Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Bruce, > > > > Cisco. We disabled band select a few years ago, but from some replies so far > it might be worth a try again. > > > > Time to start some testing. > > > > Regards > > > Jason > > > > -- > > Jason Cook > > The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 > > Ph : +61 8 8313 4800 > > e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W > (Network Services) > > > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2014 9:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Naming & 5ghz > > > > You do not say what wireless vendor you use. > > > > We find Aruba’s Client Match & Bans Steering work quite well to steer > clients to 5GHz and less used APs. > > > > Bruce Osborne > > Network Engineer – Wireless Team > > IT Network Services > > > > (434) 592-4229 > > > > LIBERTY UNIVERSITY > > Training Champions for Christ since 1971 > > > > From: Jason Cook [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 2:33 AM > Subject: SSID Naming & 5ghz > > > > 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 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/. > > ********** 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/.
