We have not turned down the 2.4 GHz radios, most of our res halls are cement and brick bunkers from the 50’s and have been retooled with utilities, but the brick and concrete has been our friend most of the time with the radio signals. We also have some on streets that boarder the neighborhood and do she those out there, but all in all it hasn’t been too bad for us. We’ve tired to let ARM do it’s work and power up/down the radios where it see fit. Our wireless network is pretty small compared to some, <1400 access points in 40+ buildings, but some of those are pretty small buildings. The res hall has <200 beds on average, some a of the small res houses, <20 beds. The current set up has been running for 5+ years now and we’ve been very happy with it and will upgrade access points soon. We also added some non hospitality access points in lobby and study rooms in the res halls, along with some outdoor rated access points to cover the quads between halls to try to provide decent indoor outdoor coverage where students congregate to study or play.
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 King, Ronald A. Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2020 4:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXT] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality Access Points Mike and the Group, For those of you that have deployed Aruba hospitality APs to every dorm room, are there any concerns of interference? Do you shut down the 2.4 GHz band on some of the APs? If so, how did you determine which ones to turn it off? Thanks, Ron Ronald King Director of Technical Services and OIT Security Office of Information Technology (757) 823-2916 (Office) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.nsu.edu<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsu.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cmcole%40CLARKU.EDU%7C4b4bf10428b945434c0c08d7bfbb8570%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C1%7C0%7C637188684444264113&sdata=kRrvkwP2g2bSI4r%2F481u3pG%2BIvq4mjAgZleWtyDGlJk%3D&reserved=0> @NSUCISO (Twitter) [NSU_logo_horiz_tag_4c - Smaller] From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Michael Cole Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:32 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality Access Points 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Ronald Loneker Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2020 4:26 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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. 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