In going through renovations and working with our Aruba rep, I've learned the 303H is a more directional signal AP than your 315 or ceiling mounted AP's that are omni-directional. They do have a lobe that will cover backward from the device a little, but generally produce their signal in a cone facing forward. This accounts for less bleed through between multi-floor buildings as well. Less bleed through could be a good or a bad thing depending on your design, but you may want to consider which direction your existing Ethernet ports will point the installed 303H. 303H's have fewer radio's supporting fewer devices than a 315 or 215, so coverage wise you'll need more 303H's, but the cost difference to a 315 (515's latest model) is going to be about 2 to 1. Another consideration before any large purchases: the 500 series hospitality APs may be released soon, we'll see what they announce at Aruba Atmosphere. 500 series offers WiFi6 which brings the 2.4GHz band back into relevancy.
________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> on behalf of Patel,Chintan <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020 10:03 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality Access Points Just thought I share what we have. In some of our residence halls (dorms) we currently have older 93H (yes still), 205H and 303H in every room. There halls are old (35 + years) and building materials is mostly brick from what I know. The coverage has been good and also provides hard-wired ports which is always a plus. Regarding 2.4GHz – we don’t turn this off on any of our 3100 + WAPs we have deployed. We still have clients that connect on 2.4. Chintan From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of King, Ronald A. Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 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://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsu.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cchintan.patel%40COLOSTATE.EDU%7C187bf1bdff7544371f2108d7bfbb859e%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637188684437889108&sdata=NpWnAO8Az%2BLmTVGCfPmputao4ywkOlsLmFGuOUaWPbU%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? 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