in residential areas, I could see potential problems with students' APs overrunning the institution's APs. But I haven't seen that level of disruption from the occasional rogue in an academic or administrative area.
If we spec a room for putting 50 students in it, I feel pretty confident that we can shrug off a handful of rogue APs in that same space. We will take a small performance hit - but I haven't witnessed this causing an actual denial of service to any of our customers. Of course I can't speak for everyone, and I don't know that I would lay out an SLA saying wireless will be up 99.999% of the time or anything, but it just doesn't seem as fragile as one might think initially. Maybe it's 5GHz, maybe it's our more recent high density deployments, maybe it's Maybelline. I don't know. I do have a high level of confidence in it these days though, based upon what I see. -- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBRH M-9B +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure I am part of the UAH Safe Zone LGBTQIA support network: http://www.uah.edu/student-affairs/safe-zone On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Thomas Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not have the same confidence in wireless as I do wired. There is no > control over the airwaves like there is over physical cabling, and some > interference cannot be dealt with (like visitor's mobile hotspots). > > Thomas Carter > Network and Operations Manager > Austin College > 903-813-2564 > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hunter Fuller > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 5:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi Service Level Agreement > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Chuck Enfield <[email protected]> wrote: >> If so, why would we focus on saying, "wireless might not work." >> It's not helpful to us or our users. A much more constructive >> approach would be to tell faculty to plan for when wireless doesn't >> work - to have a back-up plan for that iPad app, to download the >> PowerPoint presentation before class begins instead of during class, >> to plug into a wired connection if that's an option, etc.. > > The way I read this, it seems to imply a lack of confidence in the service. > Since our wireless and wired infrastructures are separate to some degree, > it's possible that a wireless connection would not work - but it's just as > likely that a wired drop would not work, too. > Therefore, I'd estimate that I am equally confident in both services. > > Maybe if it was phrased differently, like "make sure to test wired and > wireless ahead of time, in case one fails" - but I see wireless and wired as > equals. > > Just my two cents. > > ********** > 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/.
