My first thought is this. Are these boxes centrally managed? It appears you are using WPA2-Personal. If so, it would be a pain to need to revisit each box every year to change the PSK. How is channel coordination happening to minimize interference? How will you handle misbehaving devices DOSing the network while minimizing the impact to roommates? How are you steering clients to use 5GHz for better performance?
There are reasons there are Enterprise wireless systems with enterprise encryption options. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Blaisdell [mailto:mblaisd...@francis.edu] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 8:52 PM Subject: In room WIFI - second example I had posted to the group a few months ago about WAPs in each dorm room. I received a number of comments that were very insightful. Most agreed that channel plan in the 2.4 would be next to impossible and the best plan would be to turn off maybe every other radio and turn back the power. As for 5.8 I believe we agreed that channel width should be a minimum because we are not going for speed, we are going to coverage. I am back at the table with another twist. I have been testing Microtik HAP AC lite boxes with 4 10/100 ports and both 2.4 and 5.8 radios. I also have the box setup as a router for their room. I think we can call it a DAN. Dorm Area Network. The students in the room share a common DHCP server and have NAT access to the campus LAN. This allows the students to add devices in their rooms as they need to without affecting the network. The HAP also has two way firewall config so I can block all the ports and services I would normally but I can do it at the end point. I guess the dorms are running like an individual household and I am the ISP. Each room has a unique SSID and authentication. This is just a test in a few locations at this point but it has worked great. I am looking for feedback like last time. Please feel free to cut hard and deep if necessary. Security issues could be my biggest issues. Thanks Michael Blaisdell Director of Network Services IT Services Learning Commons/Library Saint Francis University 117 Evergreen Drive Loretto, PA 15940 814-472-3242 http://www.francis.edu The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
