All of our new residential halls are wireless only, and as we remodel our historic residential halls, we’re pulling the network copper from the room plates into the celling to support the addition of a celling mounted AP.
Our density is every other room by default/minimum, so it’s very dense coverage, and have had no requests for a wired connection in those renovated spaces. Jeff From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 11:10 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXTERNAL] [WIRELESS-LAN] Pod-style Residence Halls Chintan, All of our older dorms are wired currently wired, and are both pod-style and apartment. These all have wires in them. The newer dorms all of which have been pod-style are wireless only. New construction we are using ceiling mount APs like the 1815i or 2802. In the older dorms that we have to upgrade, we will be using the hospitality units (1815w). We have them deployed in a couple dorms now and the coverage has been great. We are also removing the hard lines in the older dorms and going to wireless only. Thanks, Jason Mallon | Network Engineer III OIT The University of Alabama <https://www.ua.edu/>[email protected] On 2/25/20, 10:46 AM, "The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv on behalf of Chintan Patel" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Morning, We are in process of building new residence halls (3 buildings) with Pod-style rooms. Pod-style concept is new to us and I wanted some feedback from anyone who currently has these living spaces. I will be leading the Network and Wireless planning for the residence halls. Below are couple of my questions: 1. In Pod-style rooms - are you providing hard-wired data? 2. Wireless planning - any issues and/or challenges in wireless coverage? We currently use Aruba. Are you using "H" style hospitality WAPs? If you have any additional feedback and/or are willing to share the good, bad...... etc - please send me an email. Thanks, Chintan Patel Network/Systems Team Colorado State University - Housing and Dining Services Ph:970-491-1041 ********** 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 ********** 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 ********** 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
