We are using cisco 5508 and are wondering if people recommend enabling Band Select and/or Load Balancing per SSID?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks Matt NBCC From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin Dover Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 1:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Naming & 5ghz We use Aerohive and it's band steering does a pretty good job of making sure most 5ghz devices are connected at 5ghz. We average 50-70% of our clients connect at 5ghz. Justin Dover Harpeth Hall School 615-200-0426<tel:615-200-0426> www.harpethhall.org<http://www.harpethhall.org> My Calendar<http://dover.youcanbook.me/> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Jason Cook <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks Norman We are definitely going to work a bit more with trying to keep just the 1 SSID based on responses, starting the process now gives us heaps of time to explore options before 2015. No one so far has come back with similar issues that we are experiencing so it suggests we should be able to resolve this without another SSID. -- Jason Cook The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 4800<tel:%2B61%208%208313%204800> e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Norman Elton Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2014 3:10 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Naming & 5ghz 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]<mailto:[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<tel:%2B61%208%208313%204800> > > e-mail: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] > On Behalf Of Osborne, > Bruce W (Network Services) > > > Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2014 9:04 PM > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[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<tel:%28434%29%20592-4229> > > > > LIBERTY UNIVERSITY > > Training Champions for Christ since 1971 > > > > From: Jason Cook > [mailto:[email protected]<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<tel:%2B61%208%208313%204800> > > e-mail: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[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. 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