I've got about 300 WAP's (Enterasys/Extreme Networks) in dorms with lights on for the last 2 years and haven't had any requests to turn them off here. These WAP's are wall or ceiling mounted and generally away from beds though and the LED's are pin-prick in size. They don't seem to emit a lot of light over a large area. I admittedly have more problems (not many, though) with students disconnecting them from the wall to try and plug in an Xbox or something else (which switch mac locking prevents).
More often than not it has been useful to have the LED's on so that hall directors can help me out by reconnecting disconnected WAP's instead of me needing to get card access to rooms and make a personal visit. I just ask them to make sure the blinkies start up. I'm looking into cable locks for the future... Regards, David Klein Airbear Wireless Network Administrator Baylor University ITS From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mads Thostrup Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 2:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs We have had a few request from one of our dorms where some were not able to sleep due to this LED - we turned them of in the entire dorm. Two times during the semester trouble shooting for our tech were made more difficult and we had to enable them again one time while they were working, and then we turned them back off. The following semester we enabled them again and have not had any complaint since and they are all on Best Mads Thostrup Director, IT Operations DIS - Study Abroad in Scandinavia From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Sessler Sent: 7. september 2016 09:37 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs I have an enhancement request in with Cisco to provide the option to dim the LED's vs turn them off. If I could run them at 10-20% of brightness, I think people would be ok with them staying on. Jeff From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 6:57 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs 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]<mailto:[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/. ********** 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/.
