Hey Dave, And a follow up question would be 'what makes it bad?'
We have had wifi blues during semester startup a number of times over the years. Some have been coverage related, some have been throughput related, some have been router/DHCP related, and we have even had some that were protocol related. Really depends on what your complaints are and what they point to... Having the right tools to validate or invalidate concerns are important whether they be vendor supplied or 3rd party. Cheers, Jeff From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kushner, Jeff Sent: September 23, 2021 3:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi expectations/service levels and validation Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. It is interesting, when I started doing wireless almost 20 years ago, before lightweight really existed, wireless was always positioned as a best effort and wired was definitely the way to go if a reliable connection was required. Today, wireless has become a replacement for wired in many locations, but our success is almost our downfall, the proliferation of wireless devices and interferers makes the delivery of quality wireless connections a constant battle. Not to mention the wide variety of client devices. And lets not even mention the manufacturers and issues with the firmware and software. I guess we can call all the aggravation a form of job security. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Enfield, Chuck Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 5:02 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi expectations/service levels and validation *Message sent from a system outside of UConn.* The jury is still out on whether there is such a thing as good WI-Fi.. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of LaPorte, David Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:33 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi expectations/service levels and validation Hi All, Coming out of a very rough fall semester start that left many of our users suffering with "bad" Wi-Fi, we've since (understandably) been asked what constitutes "good" Wi-Fi. We have not previously published information to our community on what they should expect or on how they can validate those expectations. Does anyone have any knowledge articles or links they could share? Thanks! Dave ********** 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=04%7C01%7C%7Cdc9e30247ca14ad39e8908d97ed57195%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637680277489811129%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=rscVf8kbeYqDUJabZ7jZWaHuiFnkqqz4Y4cYf1L3Vm8%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=04%7C01%7C%7Cdc9e30247ca14ad39e8908d97ed57195%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637680277489816102%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HzHwMQiC9jcBrCxotwBq5AUh8pcQnpyloIZLqpisQic%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 ********** 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
