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Re: Wireless in the Dorms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Whalen)
Thu Mar 31 13:20:44 2011
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:20:34 -0700
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From: Rob Whalen <rwhalen@stmarys-ca.edu>
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All,
We have just completed a Meru rollout to all 20 dorms coving 1700 students. We have the same block walls in some of our dorms. What we did is instead of putting 2 AP's on the lower floor and 2 on top- We put all 4 in the attic over each section that was separated by the block walls. We tested the signal strength in the lower units and had adequate signal there. We put in 120 Aps to cover all the rooms. The students started using it the moment we fired it up- before any announcements had gone out. The students are very happy. Next we will replace the Cisco in our Library with Meru. Their virtual circuits will handle the 400 students in the Library during peak times. The Cisco AP just can't handle that many connections over the 4 AP's there now.
Rob Whalen, Network Analyst, St Marys
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cal Frye
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:07 AM
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Subject: Re: Wireless in the Dorms
On 3/29/11 12:02 PM, Paul H Wagner wrote:
> By far our biggest problem was interference caused by students’
> personal wireless routers (and, to a lesser extent, wireless
> printers). We tried for years to have students configure their routers
> to operate on channel
> 11 (we use channels 1 and 6 for B and G), but by this school year
> there were nearly twice as many personal wireless routers as NAU APs.
> Our signal was simply being drowned out. ...
> So those would be my two recommendations, from our experience: 1) get
> personal wireless routers out of your airspace; and 2) install your
> APs more densely than you think you need to right now.
This Devil's advocate might suggest you merely instruct the students to set up their routers with your SSID and encryption keys and "crowdsource" your wireless rollout ;-)
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Best regards
-- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password!
www.calfrye.com, www.oberlin.edu/cit/
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." --Henry David Thoreau.
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