Here’s an AWESOME idea (if I do say so myself). Vendors could put an infrared status light in their APs. Of course not visible to the naked eye BUT, if you get an older phone etc, it will see IR lights (many newer phones have IR filters). Point your phone camera to the IR source and you’ll see the blinking lights. Mic drop.
GT From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]> on behalf of James Helzerman <[email protected]> Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:13 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs. It hasnet caused us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or turn on individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP. -Jimmy University of Michigan On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote: > > First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence > Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale > disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has > this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors > on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the > LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request? > I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but when we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall rooms, we turned off the lights on those units. I think we got a couple of reports where residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall not a big deal. -- Julian Y. Koh Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern Information Technology 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 Evanston, IL 60208 +1-847-467-5780 Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- James Helzerman Wireless Network Engineer University of Michigan - ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers Phone: 734-615-9541 ********** 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/.
