We have a 5ghz only network running with no issues, however it was stood up as a new network, not a change to an existing. Unfortunately for us there's still too many 2.4ghz only devices out there whith cheap laptops and android phones still being purchased by students along with a few older devices
eduroam policy may not support disabling 2.4ghz From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2016 2:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID? All, This is probably a fool's errand, but we are debating experimenting with turning off the 2.4 spectrum on our eduroam SSID on parts of campus that have a dense 5 gig coverage. We've always positioned eduroam as the premium SSID, and left a WPA2-PSK SSID for all the rest that don't support advanced EAP methods. We are debating trying this in just the IT building to start (see how many people scream). Has anyone done anything like this? The goals would be to continually remove traffic from the garbage bands, hopefully increasing client performance. Band steering isn't very good. Thanks, Ryan Turner The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** 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/.
