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Re: WiFi only residence halls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Voelker, Andy)
Wed Mar 29 09:16:55 2017
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:10:26 +0000
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It is really just an architecture issue, not wifi specific. I posted about this earlier. Games hate NAT, even one-to-one, and firewall issues. We're thinking of changing our device network to public IP's and doing less heavy firewall rules on it and more just IPS and pattern matching protection.
Andy Voelker
Network Administrator and IT Infrastructure Team Lead
Davidson College
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations)
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Subject: Re: WiFi only residence halls
Andy,
Who is tour Wi-Fi vendor and what issues with gaming are you seeing? We are seeing no issues with gaming on our Aruba system if the SSID speeds are set properly. The matest issue we had was tweaking the speeds for the latest Xbox 360 model.
Bruce Osborne
Senior Network Engineer
Network Operations - Wireless
(434) 592-4229
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
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From: Voelker, Andy [mailto:anvoelker@DAVIDSON.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: WiFi only residence halls
.... Once we solve some issues with gaming I think students will request less wired ports. I still advocate installing multiple wires to every room when building though, even if you don't connect it. Providing a wired port on a request basis only saved us a half million dollars in the switch refresh and enabled us to get better access points with higher density.
Andy Voelker
Network Administrator and IT Infrastructure Team Lead Davidson College
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Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:01 AM
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Subject: Re: WiFi only residence halls
As a follow on to this question, for those of you running wireless-only residence halls, what is your average AP density? Are AP's in the halls or rooms? In general, how many rooms are served by a single AP? Obviously, some of those answers are dependent on building construction, just trying to get an idea of what others are doing...
Stephen Wilson
Network Specialist
WCU Network & Telecom Services
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Justin R. A. Horm
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:41 AM
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Subject: Re: WiFi only residence halls
While we have not been transitioning to wifi-only buildings, I will say that we have been purchasing cheaper used networking equipment instead of brand new switches for student housing locations. The utilization of the wired infrastructure by students just does not warrant the cost of new equipment. Of course, this does not take into consieration the cost of pulling wire, but it is always cheaper to pull it during construction than afterwards, should it be needed in the future for one reason or another.
I do like the idea of setting up lounges with the ability to accomodate gaming.
Justin R. A. Horm
Senior Network Manager
St. John's College
Annapolis | Santa Fe
410-295-5552
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, McHugh, Noel wrote:
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> As we plan for constructing a new residence hall, our budget is
> tightening faster than expected. Apparently the construction boom in Seattle has greatly increased costs since the project was budgeted.
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> Iʼm considering specifying a WiFi only network for the new building,
> instead of the WiFi plus one port per pillow network that Iʼd like to
> have. We have less than 10% wired jack utilization at the moment, I
> expect that demand to drop, and it seems that if we could provide a high performance WiFi network with some wired ports in gaming lounges that we could have satisfied residents in the 2020s.
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> Is anyone running a WiFi only building? If so, howʼs that working out?
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> Thanks,
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> Noel McHugh
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> Residential IT Manager
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> The Evergreen State College
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