We turn them off where we have the traditional ceiling mounted AP's located in student rooms. I wish they had an option to leave the power LED on, but not have other LED's blink for network traffic. My opinion is that the flashing lights would be annoying to me on the ceiling of a room I was living in, but the solid power light would be no different than a little light coming in through the window or under the door. That would avoid the occasional trouble ticket where someone happens to notice that AP's in classrooms have flashing lights and the one in their room doesn't, therefore the one in their room must be broken.
This summer we installed Aruba AP-205H's in student rooms in 2 residence halls. The lights on those are small enough and dim enough that I decided not to mess with them and have left them on. So far I've not gotten any complaints, so either I'm right that they're small enough not to be annoying, or students are self solving the problem with tape or post-it notes, etc. On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:57 AM, 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? > > Thanks- > > Lee Badman > > > *Lee Badman* | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) > Information Technology Services > 206 Machinery Hall > 120 Smith Drive > Syracuse, New York 13244 > *t* 315.443.3003 * f* 315.443.4325 *e* *[email protected]* > <[email protected]> *w* its.syr.edu > > *SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY *syr.edu > > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ > groups/. > > -- *Adam Forsyth* Director of Network and Systems Luther College Information Technology Services *700 College DriveDecorah, IA 52101563-387-1402* ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
