Well, your article ties in nicely to an idea I floated a couple of months ago that didn’t get many comments from the group… Educause needs to have a Higher-Ed Constituency group held at least one a year with the major manufacturers in which highed-ed gets to bring up bugs and technical issues with the consumer grade crap that is making its way onto our highly designed enterprise networks. I sent an email directly to Diana Oblinger. She politely and promptly responded, saying she was going to pass this onto the head of corporate relations, and I haven’t heard back. It has been a month.
Ryan H Turner Senior Network Engineer The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 +1 919 445 0113 Office +1 919 274 7926 Mobile From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 1:00 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] HP Printers / WiFi Direct Thanks. Kinda funny, I took a beating on Reddit for this. See http://www.reddit.com/r/wireless/comments/2htize/wifi_as_we_know_it_is_doomed/ to be amused. I think you’re either faced with these issues- trying to juggle a lot of complicating factors and still delivering Wi-Fi that works and won’t land you in the headlines as the next data breach- or you’re not. Those who have never had to deal with it can’t relate. Regardless, we are all heading down a weird road. The status quo just isn’t sustainable. -Lee From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of T. Shayne Ghere Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 12:54 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] HP Printers / WiFi Direct Lee, This was a GREAT article that shows what we’ve been preaching for years. This year so far has been our worst to date. S From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] On Behalf Of Hall, Rand Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 11:13 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] HP Printers / WiFi Direct +1 We have been absolutely plagued by interference this year. It's always been manageable in the past...but not this year. The proliferation of devices is mind-boggling. I have an idea that the only way to clean the air in the residences is to turn off the power. The stuff running off batteries, for the most part, play nice. Wi-Fi is doomed: http://wirednot.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/wi-fi-as-we-know-it-is-doomed/ Rand Rand P. Hall Director, Network Services askIT! Merrimack College 978-837-3532 rand.h...@merrimack.edu<mailto:rand.h...@merrimack.edu> If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and five minutes finding solutions. – Einstein On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Thomas Carter <tcar...@austincollege.edu<mailto:tcar...@austincollege.edu>> wrote: We seem to be having more and more wireless interference from devices that are not wireless routers/APs. HP printers and their obnoxious setup wireless are becoming more common, and this semester we've seen a few devices using WiFi Direct (basically an ad-hoc wireless network) - the PS4 has the ability to connect to other Sony devices, and Roku players that used WiFi for its remote control. This forks from the "FCC just declared WLAN quarantine features illegal" thread, but how are you dealing with these other forms of wireless interference. We've essentially had to resort back to physically locating them and knocking on doors. We printed up an information sheet to slide under doors, and communicate with residential staff, but it seems to have mediocre success. We've also tried to communicate to students that the cause of slow wireless is most likely interference from other devices in an attempt to utilize peer pressure as well. Unfortunately it seems to all be very time consuming to track down and communcate. Thomas Carter Network and Operations Manager Austin College 903-813-2564<tel:903-813-2564> ********** 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/.
