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Re: per room wireless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Norman Elton)
Wed Nov 9 12:07:27 2016
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:05:14 -0500
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From: Norman Elton <normelton@GMAIL.COM>
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We did auto-rrm for many many years. I've become a firm believer in
manually assigning channel & power levels. We're now doing so across
the board. I was 80% convinced before watching some excellent
presentations along this line at the WLPC in Phoenix recently.
We use Aerohive, and while they have auto-rrm features, we now disable
them. We recently baked off Aruba, and were impressed with their ARM
capabilities. Probably more sophisticated than Aerohive's offering.
But at the end of the day, I'd rather take the time up front to come
up with a "known good" channel plan. You're right that this means your
RF environment can't adapt to changes. We have not found this to be a
problem.
I've found that a good channel / RF plan can remove the need to rely
on magical vendor features (auto-rrm, load balancing, band steering,
etc) that can be hard to troubleshoot and fix when they begin
misbehaving.
Norman
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations)
<bosborne@liberty.edu> wrote:
> Why are you setting channels & power levels manually? (I assume you are using controller-based APs & not the older "fat" APs). If you are setting things statically, standalone APs would be less expensive than thin, controller-based APs.
>
> On our Aruba system, we find that the controller intelligence works well adjusting to the changing RF environment if the software is properly configured.
>
>
> Bruce Osborne
> Wireless Engineer
> IT Network Operations - Wireless
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Elton [mailto:normelton@GMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: per room wireless
>
> We moved to a every-other-room deployment, and manually assigned channel and power levels. Used existing network jacks and either fished up the wall or used Panduit as needed.
>
> Everything has been very smooth. Complaints from the dorms have virtually disappeared.
>
> Norman Elton
> College of William & Mary
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Duffin, Gregory J <DUFFIN001@gannon.edu> wrote:
>> We used to have APs in the hallway. Last summer we made a change to our largest reshall by putting 1 AP in every suite, 2-3 bedrooms in that suite. It has been well received and the students are happier with the coverage.
>>
>> That will be our model moving forward.
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Michael Blaisdell
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>> Subject: per room wireless
>>
>> How many have moved to a per room wireless model for student residence halls?
>>
>>
>>
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