We have started using this year the Solstice Pod by Mersive in a number of classrooms. It seems to be a pretty nice product but since school has started I have gotten complaints about losing connection while in the middle of a presentation. The Pod is hardwired into the network and the clients are on wireless. Because of this the first thing to blame obviously is the wireless network. In my investigation it has become apparent that the process a majority of users are using is to initiate a session through the Solstice client and then use Airplay to mirror to the Pod. This is being done through Airplay peer-to-peer. Through previous discussion on this list and Cisco documentation, I am trying to determine how this interacts with our wireless implementation, is this a wireless issue, and if so, what are best practices for handling it. Based on what I have read, there are recommendations on turning off channels 149 and 153 because Airplay PTP is using channel 149. My thoughts were to turn off these two channels and turn on channels 120, 124, and 128 which are not currently enabled. Before doing this, I thought I would run this by you guys and see if anyone else has dealt with something like this and if there were any gotchas with disabling these channels and enabling the others. I would appreciate any feedback you might have to offer. Thanks.
Don Sullivan Network Administrator 205-726-2111 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
