We just completed half our dorms and did an AP approximately every other room (installed 2,000). We used the "hospitality" ap's so they are mounted on the wall at jack height. We mounted them where ever jacks where, which created some "interesting" designs. We have many on outside walls, and some unfortunately point in undesirable directions, but we had to go where the jack was. Coverage seems good, even for 5ghz, we will complete at this density due to cost.
We also had issues as many of our data jacks either are panduit glued to wall (don't support single gang mounting) or have non data in the same box (coax) so a standard mount could only be used about 20% of the time. On 11/04/2016 11:12 AM, Mike Atkins wrote: > Our last two dorms we placed an AP in every third room staggered above and > below so no client should be no more than one wall away. We were > fortunate enough to get Ethernet drops for APs to every room just in case. > I say fortunate but we really pushed it as insurance for the future. > Coverage is great..... but now we have to get better at dealing with high > density. The APs were mounted above the door to reduce the chance of > damage. If anyone has APs on the outer wall, we would certainly be > interested in your experience. Otherwise it will likely be a test over > the summer when students and their belonging are not present to give us an > accurate picture. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
