We recently had an issue with a staff member with a similar concern. Got EHS and HR involved. HR followed their procedures and told us to keep the AP where we had designed it š
We do field complaints from students each term and have so far been complying with their requests, but after this last go-around regarding the staff member, Iām hoping that EHS might be able to provide some assistance/guidance for the next one. -- Bryan Ward Network Engineer Dartmouth College Network Services 603-646-2245 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Performance improvements from hallway to in-room We point them to Environmental Health and Safety š From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Christopher Brizzell Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:26 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Performance improvements from hallway to in-room Just be ready for some amount of backlash from an angry/ignorant parent. Every year (including yesterday) we have parents contact us saying we needed to remove all APs from bedrooms because of the health risk to the students living in those spaces. Thank you for the information, however. Any amount of proof to help solidify our decision helps. Chris Brizzell Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator Skidmore College [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 518-580-5994 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:43 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Performance improvements from hallway to in-room All: We all know that moving from hallway deployments to in-room deployments pays dividends. This summer we started doing some re-cabling work on smaller dorms to move from hallway to in-room. We also went away from Aruba higher performance APs to the hospitality APs for these locations. Even though the AP cost is significantly less, the cabling costs made this move a premium option. Nonetheless, thanks to data provided to us from Nyansa Voyance, we are able to clearly demonstrate to Housing that these funds were well spent. After the changes, these dorms went from some of the worst performing locations on campus to some of the best. When you look at the graphs below, the Y axis is percentage of users that are affected by poor wifi performance (I believe Nyansa measures this as clients that experience a 25% retransmit rate from the AP to client). With Nyansa, it determines behavior on usage level. So when you see the dashed line, it means that usage was below or above the threshold during that time frame. I picked the usage level that would show the most complete picture, but going from low/medium/high all show the same improvement levels. Carmichael: [cid:[email protected]] Lewis: [cid:[email protected]] Everett: [cid:[email protected]] Ryan Turner Head of Networking The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill +1 919 445 0113 Office +1 919 274 7926 Mobile [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=02%7C01%7Cbryan.ward%40DARTMOUTH.EDU%7Cdd8b7734a43242a6296808d732427821%7C995b093648d640e5a31ebf689ec9446f%7C0%7C0%7C637033133398551607&sdata=2mabt3JH0RW4YyiTk%2F53TlS5inwMVlKRSXBqevs0t4s%3D&reserved=0> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=02%7C01%7Cbryan.ward%40DARTMOUTH.EDU%7Cdd8b7734a43242a6296808d732427821%7C995b093648d640e5a31ebf689ec9446f%7C0%7C0%7C637033133398561605&sdata=Tw3kiCPInzqDgJR6LNdCmcyLiOCoBS6XhrPXgCqghZY%3D&reserved=0> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=02%7C01%7Cbryan.ward%40DARTMOUTH.EDU%7Cdd8b7734a43242a6296808d732427821%7C995b093648d640e5a31ebf689ec9446f%7C0%7C0%7C637033133398571599&sdata=iKerZU9IM%2FxfeqpWWTNGA2RzEVyuykCQMlhVC3c%2BSeU%3D&reserved=0> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
