1. We still offer wired/wireless, although we don’t install 1 port per pillow any more but rather 1 port per room to cut costs. We generally colocate the drops with coax. 2. Fewer ports has translated to lower cost of LV and switches. Hospitality WAPs seem to be a good compromise to keep LV station cables down while still providing ports. My preference is still to put WAPs overhead to avoid damage but hospitality WAPs have worked well in retrofits. 3. Catering to the “lowest common denominator” – AKA random devices that don’t play well with 802.1x and providing a fallback if there is a wireless experience issue. Our gaming students seem to appreciate throwing their console on the wired LAN for performance. The wired ports do tend to be abused more frequently in terms of rogue WAPs being installed.
If I were to build an all-wireless dorm today, I’d still get some sort of conduit and boxes from the hallways into the rooms for future expansion. We’ve learned many lessons from old dorms not built for expansion. I wouldn’t be surprised if many years down the road FTTDR (dorm room) is a need. Thanks, Chris Adams, M.S., CISSP Associate CIO, Network & Telecom Division of Information Technology University of North Georgia From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Edward Fishman Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Only in Student Housing? Hello. I have been following this thread with great interest as we have a new student housing project in the works. My questions are: 1. Who was involved in the decision to go all wireless (or not) on your campus? 2. Were cost savings involved in the overall decision, if there were cost savings, considering the potential need for a greater density of APs? 3. From where was the greatest push-back not to go all-wireless? Conversely, who were the biggest fans of moving in the all-wireless direction? Thanks Edward M. Fishman Director of Networking and Systems Administration Division of Information Technology Stevens Institute of Technology 1 Castle Point on Hudson Samuel C. Williams Library - Lower Level Hoboken, NJ 07030 T 201-216-5147 | C 917-817-4088 http://www.stevens.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.stevens.edu_&d=DwMGaQ&c=FbBevciwIvGuzsJQdDnze9uCWRSXekJosRCbxNiCfPE&r=2xyWjaGAJiQBS60SNfJGVrkSN3JvZBCiAkWZBLNrNQA&m=9tfLFHuZdZgw2rEqojJaabE2Gi9WaL7XMGEdzUjl2ho&s=9p1gsb5Jvllvb6axdNJN1bz9SjAzOib4KeypqIlYwFk&e=> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.educause.edu_discuss&d=DwMGaQ&c=FbBevciwIvGuzsJQdDnze9uCWRSXekJosRCbxNiCfPE&r=2xyWjaGAJiQBS60SNfJGVrkSN3JvZBCiAkWZBLNrNQA&m=9tfLFHuZdZgw2rEqojJaabE2Gi9WaL7XMGEdzUjl2ho&s=DnWRtiY4zeeICz-xioxiLLADto3vHKYoIvMvfJ3VJmw&e=>. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
