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Re: Wireless in the Dorms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Gould)
Tue Mar 29 10:31:09 2011
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:30:47 -0400
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Also keep in mind that staggering AP's on floors is important as well.
If you're not watching your wiring contractor carefully, they may take
the easy route and stack data jacks in a straight line along the tiers
of a building.
Todd
On 3/29/2011 10:14 AM, Dennis OReilly wrote:
> Also if you put your APs in a line down a hallway you lose the ability
> to triangulate to do location tracking. Never a good idea to put APs
> in a line.
>
>
> At 9:20 AM -0400 3/29/11, Bentley, Douglas wrote:
>> We are a Cisco shop as well.
>> We always have access issues in the student rooms so we had to
>> install the 1142s in the hallways. We placed them about 75' apart
>> from each other inside of Wiremold enclosures. We were challenged
>> with the RRM because of the in-line placement of the APs and the
>> system was setting the radios too low and we were having coverage
>> holes in the rooms. We had to manually increase the radio to achieve
>> the desired coverage. The overall coverage and connectivity is good.
>> Good luck,
>> -Doug
>
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Also keep in mind that staggering AP's on floors is important as
well. If you're not watching your wiring contractor carefully, they
may take the easy route and stack data jacks in a straight line
along the tiers of a building.<br>
<br>
<br>
Todd<br>
<br>
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On 3/29/2011 10:14 AM, Dennis OReilly wrote:
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<div>Also if you put your APs in a line down a hallway you lose
the
ability to triangulate to do location tracking. Never a good
idea to
put APs in a line.</div>
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<div>At 9:20 AM -0400 3/29/11, Bentley, Douglas wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="">We are a Cisco shop as well.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite=""> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="">We always have access issues in
the
student rooms so we had to install the 1142s in the hallways.
We
placed them about 75' apart from each other inside of Wiremold
enclosures. We were challenged with the RRM because of the
in-line placement of the APs and the system was setting the
radios too
low and we were having coverage holes in the rooms. We had to
manually increase the radio to achieve the desired coverage.
The
overall coverage and connectivity is good. </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite=""> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="">Good luck,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="">-Doug</blockquote>
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