Combining the last 2 emails: We use 303 and had used 205's in our dorms. I find them incredibly helpful. With the pass through port (if you have 2 wires in the room, you can keep one "as is" and pass it through) and then have WiFi and wired ports in the student vlan.
They are small and fit the needs of the students. A bigger AP we found got wacked about a bit more which required a site visit to fix it (reattach it). We have cement block between rooms and have to do minimum tuning to adjust, however we did have one building that I had to turn the power settings down -but I just created a group and set the power levels for that building different than everywhere else. It did take some time once the students moved in to find the sweet spot. All in all, our buildings it has almost been "set it and forget it"... Ian Cheers Ian J Lyons Senior Network Engineer - Rollins College 401.413.1661 Cell 407.628.6396 Desk ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> on behalf of Michael Cole <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 16:31 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality Access Points * External Email * We’ve used a lot more of the hospitality models than standard access points, for us, 225’s. We try to put one in each student’s room for a double or a single. It gives their 10 or so devices a home, and provides wired interfaces if they want/ need to use them. This also provides decent coverage is one goes down in a room, the rooms around them pick up the traffic. The failure rate over the past 5 years has been very minimal, and we’ve been very happy with them, vice putting one access point in an area for a suite, or 4-6 rooms devices to connect to it. We getting ready to do a refresh of access points and will put even more of the hospitality units in, in houses/and a Dorm we didn’t put them in on the original install. Mike Michael A. Cole Manager of Network Operations Information Technology Services Carlson Hall, 950 Main st Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 793 7772 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ronald Loneker Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2020 4:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality Access Points Hi Everyone, I've been following some of the various discussions where people have mentioned using Aruba's hospitality access points and I e-mailed our vendor who we use about them to compare them with the IAP 215 units we deployed a few years ago in our residence halls. I didn't seem to get a good explanation so now I'm asking this group. For those who have deployed the hospitality access points, how do they differ from an Aruba you would put in an academic/administrative building? Do you find you are putting more of them into a residence hall? I'd toy with the idea of possibly swapping the IAP-215 units with hospitality units if the numbers were similar and we could move the IAP-215 units into one of our buildings with legacy Arubas although from what I think I'm reading, it looks like some of you are putting more into the residence halls than we have put (it's definitely not one access point for every one or two rooms based on the heat maps that were done). Any thoughts would be appreciated. Ron Loneker, Jr. Director, IT Special Projects College of Saint Elizabeth Mahoney Library 2 Convent Road Morristown, NJ 07960 Phone: 973-290-4229<tel:973-290-4229> e-mail: [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://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=02%7C01%7Cilyons%40ROLLINS.EDU%7Ccd4dccf91ebf4a99ddb708d7bfba407f%7Cb8e8d71a947d41dd81dd8401dcc51007%7C0%7C0%7C637188678992983753&sdata=mQP2MlNj3IutNx0Ek%2FPSk4E%2FcIF7ClKl32GmrOZa8OQ%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://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.educause.edu%2Fcommunity&data=02%7C01%7Cilyons%40ROLLINS.EDU%7Ccd4dccf91ebf4a99ddb708d7bfba407f%7Cb8e8d71a947d41dd81dd8401dcc51007%7C0%7C0%7C637188678992983753&sdata=mQP2MlNj3IutNx0Ek%2FPSk4E%2FcIF7ClKl32GmrOZa8OQ%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
