-No institutional wireless. Let the students bring in their own AP's
We are moving away from this model. The thought originally was
that we provide a data drop just like comcast would from a modem, and it is
exactly like the experience they would have at an off campus apartment.
Ultimatly the students come to a college expecting wireless and
view the institution as "backwards and low tech" if it isn't everywhere. They
don't budget for a $100 wireless router their first week of classes, and many
do not have a device with an ethernet port, so they are stuck without any
internet until they can save up money and get to a store.
-Some kind of institutionally owned/leased mobile wireless (e.g we provide our
own 4G)
Installing a DAS system and getting all four carriers to buy
into it, at least from our questions a couple years ago, is likely a seven
figure project (for a small college). An 802.11ac upgrade is probably
magnitudes cheaper. This only solves phones and a small percentage of the
tablets with a data plan. Laptops and any other device with only wifi are
still out of luck. Even though you are providing the 4G, the carriers still
bill the users at the same rate for data.
(As far as I know, a locked carrier cell phone is not going to allow you to
connect to a new college owned 4G frequency, if you meant fully owning and
creating your own separate 4G signal)
-Hybrid
Do you mean half 802.11N and half 802.11ac? I would change over a building at
a time, otherwise you will have clients clinging to the "better" 802.11ac AP
even if it is on the edge of range.
Not much experience on the other options.
Wyatt Schill
Senior Network Engineer
Green River College
12401 SE 320th St. Auburn, WA 98092
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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Helman
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] To provide (wireless) service, or not to provide
(wireless) service...
A few weeks ago we made a pitch for funding to upgrade our res halls to
802.11ac. This request for funding has had an unforeseen effect. I'm not
being asked to investigate NOT providing wireless networking in our res halls.
Here are the options, as it has been described to me:
-No institutional wireless. Let the students bring in their own AP's
-Some kind of managed service (wireless as a service) with 802.11
-Some kind of institutionally owned/leased mobile wireless (e.g we provide our
own 4G)
-Hybrid
-Continue with 802.11n 2.4GHz and fill in holes as they pop up
I'm not going to put my thoughts up here just yet. These are the
options/thoughts as presented by the levels above me.
Let the discussion begin....
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