Dear Daniel We have done this to most of our residence buildings for more than three years.
Before, we gave them wired connection and IP phones. We found that many jacks in the rooms were broken, and we spent a lot to do the maintenance on the jacks and phones. Three years ago, we concluded that almost every student in the residence has a cell phone, and they do not need the wired connection anymore because they are using laptops and mobile devices. So we disabled all of the wireless connection, and only enable the jacks if they have special request. This also help us to reduce the number of switches in the residence. You’d better make a good pre-site survey for the wireless coverage in your new building ( I spent almost two weeks to do the site survey in the construction stage of our new residence), and leave some buffer because after students moving in, the furniture and human body can block or absorb some signal. And it will not be easy to add more Aps later. In the past three years, we do not have any major problem for the network connection in the residence except the interference from personal rogue routers and wireless printers. Hope it can help for your decision. Have a good weekend. Yours, Linchuan Yang (Antony) Wireless Networking Analyst Network Assessment and Integration, IITS - Concordia University Tel: (514)848-2424 ext. 7664 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Daniel Wurst Sent: August-24-18 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Only in Student Housing? Hi All, We are looking into building a new student housing building and are considering going Wifi only for network connectivity. We were wondering if anyone else has gone the route of only allowing network connectivity via wireless. If so, can you share your experience, lessons learned, and advice. Thank you, Dan -- Daniel Wurst Network Engineer Denison University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 740-587-6229 ********** 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.
