Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MPSK SSID Names

tire > 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 > -- John Rodkey Director of

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macbook zoom wireless dropout issues

. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College Verification: Unsure if this is a legitimate email to an email list? Make sure it is recorded at https://my.westmont.edu/it_emails "*God-fearing faith... is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God."* - Martin Luthe

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Issues with Zoom in Res Halls

these intermittent problems. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College Verification: Unsure if this is a legitimate email to an email list? Make sure it is recorded at https://my.westmont.edu/it_emails "*God-fearing faith... is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Status of Wi-Fi 6 Client Drivers?

This was our experience as well. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College Verification: Unsure if this is a legitimate email to an email list? Make sure it is recorded at https://my.westmont.edu/it_emails "*God-fearing faith... is neither brash nor foolhardy and

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MDNS Traffic - problem with wifi on campus

are failing, because our tests showed them to be stable. But each WAP does have to process any mDNS broadcast it 'hears' in its VLAN, and they may be simply using all their CPU to process these broadcasts. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College Verification: Unsure

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4Ghz channel designations

I would be interested in the urinal analogy, although I have a pretty good guess. Ewww! John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College Verification: Unsure if this is a legitimate email to an email list? Make sure it is recorded at https://my.westmont.edu/it_emails "*God-fe

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4Ghz channel designations

Thank you all for the feedback. I was feeling like I was being gas-lit . And I conclude that I was. John John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College Verification: Unsure if this is a legitimate email to an email list? Make sure it is recorded at https://my.westmont.edu

2.4Ghz channel designations

your on-the-ground experience is with this configuration? Thank you! John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College Verification: Unsure if this is a legitimate email to an email list? Make sure it is recorded at https://my.westmont.edu/it_emails "*God-fearing faith... is ne

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless location data for contact tracing

I found this podcast about efforts by U of W and Microsoft to be insightful. https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/05/podcast-232-contact-tracing-privacy-surveillance-decentralized/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/08/podcast-233-contact-tracing-civil-liberties-sham-kakade/ John Rodkey Director

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] neighbors 'jamming' 2.4GHz spectrum

- > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv < > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of John Rodkey < > rod...@westmont.edu> > *Sent:* Monday, January 27, 2020 3:19:04 PM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU < &

neighbors 'jamming' 2.4GHz spectrum

or that it is intended to disrupt our campus network. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College ** 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

Wireless Instability issues?

Are others who are using Aerohive 650 experiencing instability issues? We have experienced a rather extensive problem that came with sudden onset about 1/4/2020 . Clients appear to be able to connect to the AP, get an IP and are able to ping the default gateway, but not beyond. The ethernet

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Theater wifi - to have or not to have

I feel your pain. We can all do deep breathing together. It won't change things, but we'll feel better about life in general. John On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 8:14 AM Jonathan Miller wrote: > > Some of this can be affected by the architect and what they deem > aesthetically pleasing... > > This

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Wi-Gi 6 APs

diminishes to only a handful. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 5:48 PM Sweetser, Frank E wrote: > In theory, yes - I doubt that anyone is going to deploy 11ax with earlier > standards disabled (except for base 11b data rates,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Wi-Gi 6 APs

This was true of our Aerohive deployment as well. The Windows drivers were not compatible with 802.11ax, and SSIDs were invisible to them, and not able to be connected to even if specified. We were forced to revert our APs to 802.11ac mode because of the impact it had. The trouble is that even

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Options

on Hurt > *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2018 2:11 PM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Options > > > > https://www.mist.com/ > <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mist.com%2F=02%7C01%7Ctnorton7%40liberty.edu%7Cc75bdb04

Wireless Options

of the above? 3) what are your negative experiences? 4) have you recently gone through this analysis, and if so, what were your conclusions? 5) what issues have you experienced with PoE capacity requirements with these devices? John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] point-to-point wireless backhauls

+1 for Ubiquiti On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Brian Helman wrote: > Well, it looks like we’re going with the NanoBeamAC units. I just walked > out to the field to look at the areas and …. our security contractor > already installed them. One of which is directly

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Log Sheet Inquiry

ook > <https://www.facebook.com/ISUITHelp/> and Twitter > <https://twitter.com/ISUITHelp> > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *John Rodkey > *Sent:* Monday, October 09, 2017 6:16 PM

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Log Sheet Inquiry

We used a google form for this purpose, which plunks the data into a spreadsheet. It can be embedded in the email, so the barriers to filling it out are fairly low. When we did this, we asked for email, dorm, room, and a link to the results of a speedtest.net run, if they could connect, and

Plastered buildings

How do you deal with buildings that have plaster and fine metal mesh enclosing them? We have placed access points on the exterior of the building, but the signal isn't getting through. The rooms all open onto an outside hallway - there is no common internal hallway. John Rodkey Director

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Move In/Opening Week- Any Problems?

, grouping all 802.11N devices separate from 802.11AC . We'll see how that affects things. Our radios are a mix of MR14, MR18, MR33, MR34, MR53, MR58, with the majority MR14s, which are nearing end of service. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA On Fri, Aug 25

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4GHz - educating end users about interference

Post it on stall doors in the bathroom. Plenty of time to read... On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Peter P Morrissey wrote: > Me too. Nicely formatted, great graphics, clearly written. Just wondering > how this would/could be used. Having a hard time imagining most or any >

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 2.4GHz - educating end users about interference

:) Indeed. Virus just hit the west coast. Westmont would also love permission to use the content. On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Stephen Savarese wrote: > We would also like permission. > > Not everyday an informational pamphlet goes viral > > > > Stephen C. Savarese

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Res hall wireless printing..

We had to kill the geese to make our quills... :) On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote: > We didn’t have printers in college, we had typewriters…… oh crap, did I > just date myself L > > > > -Mike > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] One more round- finer point on Open Networks in Dorm

Westmont was wide open and is now non-open in the dorms. There are selected placed on campus and selected times on campus when wireless is opened up. John On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Brian Helman wrote: > Lee, I posed this question back at NERCOMP. You may want

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off 2.4 on a select SSID?

At Westmont we've got the following capabilities reported 802.11g 2.4 - 16 (0.4%) 802.11g 2.4/5 - 16 (0.4%) 802.11n 2.4 - 47 (1.3%) 802.11n 2.4/5 - 1774 (48%) 802.11ac 2.4/5 - 1831 (49%) Hard to tell, but I think this means 63 2.4GHz (1.7%) and 3621 5GHz (98.3%) In terms of channel width, 20MHz

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

e 5G radios? > > > > -- > > ian > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *John Rodkey > *Sent:* 05 April 2016 22:53 > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

of (cisco) access points from your scrap pile in bridge mode? 100% > inexpensive J > > > > -- > > ian > > > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *John Rodkey

backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

I have need for a fairly inexpensive, low bandwidth (10Mbps), short distance (<200 ft) point to point wireless connection . I am aware of the Cambrium ePMP 1000 and Ubiquiti nano. Would anyone like to compare these items or propose other good solutions to this type of situation? John

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who WiFi vendors does everyone use? REVISITED

Westmont College, Santa Barbara CA 3680 clients (1200 students) Cisco Meraki APs - 280 active Cloud Based Cisco Meraki Cloud Typical aggregate traffic 2.3TB per 24 hours. (280Mb/s) On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Janice Gildawie wrote: > Bard College at Simon's Rock

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who wifi vendors does everyone use?

​ > > > > *Bruce Osborne* > > *Wireless Engineer* > > *IT Network Services - Wireless* > > > > *(434) 592-4229 <%28434%29%20592-4229>* > > > > *LIBERTY UNIVERSITY* > > *Training Champions for Christ since 1971* > > > >

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Who wifi vendors does everyone use?

Need to add Meraki to the list... On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Jeremy Gibbs wrote: > Here is a straw poll. > > https://strawpoll.me/7228156 > > > > > > > *--Jeremy L. Gibbs* > Sr. Network Engineer > Utica College IITS > > T: (315) 223-2383 > F: (315) 792-3814 > E:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco LWAP Advice

I would echo Lee's observations. Being an early adopter, Westmont had its share of teething pains, but the benefits of Meraki managing the back-end server are considerable. Our wireless deployment isn't massive: about 300 WAPs, and typically about 3000 devices attaching per day, and I'm sure we

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FreeRADIUS Diffie-Hellman Keys and iOS9

Interesting... because when I installed a DH2048 key without adding the dh_key_length parameter, users were not able to authenticate. When I added the length, things worked. I'm good with it just being magic, as long as it works... John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] LTE over Wi-Fi spectrum sets up industry-wide fight over interference

Seems to me it could also be solved by obstructionist, power-mongering leadership at the FCC, if only they could find a self-interested reason for doing what accidentally turns out to be the right thing. So there might be an outside chance we're not doomed. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Lee

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] latest from FCC on de-authing Mi-Fi

; and this appears to be the basis on which Marriott was pursued. In Marriott's case, protocol blocking not physical signal jamming was the method used. John On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:22 AM, John Rodkey rod...@westmont.edu wrote: Indeed! The statement clarifies aspects of this, but muddies others

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SV: [WIRELESS-LAN] Attendance

I'd say it's a ways off, if the facial recognition on my Nexus 7 is any indication... About half the time I need to enter the passcode by hand because it doesn't recognize or even find my face. John On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Nilsson, Robert rnils...@extremenetworks.com wrote: Short

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Channel Utilization

​Our experience is that at 40% users are going to start to wonder what's wrong, and at 60% you might as well hang it up. I'm not sure where the 34% number came from, but it matches with the maximum practical utilization of the Aloha network in the late 60's. ​ ​Perhaps it is entirely a

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless lighting controls, etc

That is amazing. Definitely on the 'watch' list for my networking class. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Coehoorn, Joel jcoeho...@york.edu wrote: Funny how things just come together sometimes. I also saw this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIY7ushchU Joel Coehoorn

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Power Management

I have had good success using RANCID to automate collecting show power inline results into files for all our switches using one command, and then use awk and grep to make reports. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy Gibbs jlgi...@utica.edu wrote: Command line show power inline with the |

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Network Access Policy

guests. J Pete M. *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *John Rodkey *Sent:* Thursday, January 16, 2014 7:26 PM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Network Access

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Network Access Policy

1) yes, we allow guests in the public, academic, and administrative buildings, but not in the dorms. a. It is an open network. b. N/A 2) see 1). Note: we restrict bandwidth to a bit more than a trickle on the open SSID, and we disallow any streaming, video, or audio application. Our

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: password change/reset for students

Westmont wrote a web page to allow users to change their credentials. It mostly works but is a little long on the tooth and could use a facelift. Misspellings courtesy iPhone. On May 22, 2013, at 5:08 AM, Ashfield, Matt (NBCC) matt.ashfi...@nbcc.ca wrote: Good morning Sorry for the off-topic

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Just Bought Meraki

As an exclusively Meraki campus, I echo Lee's plea. It's working. Don't fix it, Cisco. Please. John On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:12 AM, David Wang@U of G daw...@uoguelph.cawrote: Lee, I saw your Dear Cisco, Please Don't Screw Up Meraki (

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FreeRADIUS performance question

16 19:11:44 18 04:36:17 18 04:43:12 18 05:45:12 18 06:26:13 18 07:22:07 18 08:18:46 20 01:58:49 20 03:28:29 23 03:46:02 On 9/5/12, Walter Reynolds wa...@umich.edu wrote: Ok, we all have different usage patters and number of users. So can we do

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Inter-Campus Wifi GPS Tracking

Well, at least you found out that the mitigation worked as advertised! :) On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: On 2/1/2012 1:11 PM, Peter P Morrissey wrote: Sweet! It seems like one challenge would be the devices would constantly be resetting every time the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Very high number of wireless devices returning from break

At Westmont we've seen a significant increase, but not as large as reported by others on this list. I'm eyeballing this off a rough graph, but the median number of devices on a given week per month is as follows. Oct 2011: 2000 Nov 2011: 2000 Dec 2011: 2200 Jan 2012: 2500 Looks like a 10% Black

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] MIMO Antennas

An additional concern: the glass which is used now by LEEDs compliant buildings seems to be particularly unfriendly to Wifi and Cell phone signals. You might want to find out exactly what kind of glass this is and its emf characteristics. John On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Mike King

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wifi Support Staff

I think this varies also with the type of access point deployed. Westmont's information: 275 Meraki WAPs 2000 users 0.3 staff (more or less) Helpdesk has 3 people, probably 0.3 FTE on wireless problems. We anticipate that being reduced with recent deployment of XpressConnect Cloudpath.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS devices on wireless

Like that's going to happen! Sent from my iPhone On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote: Would be nice if Apple updated Bonjour or ditched it and got with the fact that enterprise networks are not built on Airports and single subnets...

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Policy towards self installed AP's in dorms

1. Student Wireless Access Points are not allowed on campus 2. This policy is in the student handbook. 3. We have had several conversations about problematic WAPs 4. We intervene when they are problematic. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Johnson, Neil M neil-john...@uiowa.eduwrote: These

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi blockers in classrooms

And the law of unintended consequences strikes again: Students figure this out and exchange credentials with those who aren't supposed to be in class at the time. End result: not only do you have student using the network, but you've now compromised the passwords of any number of students. On

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] LG070 (MyLGNet) phones on campus wireless network?

We implement this using what Cisco calls 'Policy based routing', described here: http://www.ciscofinancing.com/en/US/docs/ios 255.240.0.0_0/qos/configuration/guide/qcpolicy.html#wp4826http://www.ciscofinancing.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0/qos/configuration/guide/qcpolicy.html#wp4826 . In our case,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Advertising Wireless Coverage

I think many of us on the list would like a peek into the elves' workshop. At least some general outline of the tools and methods used would be helpful to point us in the right direction. John On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Dave Barr d...@cornell.edu wrote: I don’t know how the overlay

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meraki?

In our experience this is a fairly good Pro/Con list, however we ended up purchasing Meraki and uninstalling our Aruba network for a couple reasons: 1) much easier to use is a huge understatement. No longer are we tied to the availability of a dedicated network specialist who invests weeks to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meraki?

We're using Meraki at Westmont. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Marcelo Lew m...@du.edu wrote: I was wondering if somebody on the list is using (or considered) using the Meraki System? Marcelo Lew Wireless Enterprise Administrator University Technology Services University of Denver

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba vs HP vs Meraki

To say nothing of the MR58 !!! If you can heft it, it would make a pretty good dent in the AP jousting and bashing competition. I have also enjoyed the clean and simple management interface Meraki has developed. John On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Miles Davis mi...@cs.stanford.edu wrote:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba vs HP vs Meraki

We moved from Aruba to Meraki within the last year. We were able to get considerably more saturation of the campus with wireless using Meraki than would have been possible for the same cost with Aruba. Administration of the access points was much more intuitive with Meraki than our experience with

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n Solutions

I'd be happy to talk with anyone about our deployment of Meraki at Westmont. John Rodkey Associate director of IT Westmont College On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote: Pablo- For the size of your deployment, it may be worth your time to look at both Meraki

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Restricting of wireless access in classrooms

. Otherwise, you will have set the stage for a perpetual guerrilla warfare. John Rodkey Associate Director of IT Westmont College On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Urrea, Nick urr...@uchastings.edu wrote: I’m compiling research to give to our Faculty Technology Committee. My question is has anybody

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meraki Networks

We are currently rolling out a campus-wide deployment of Meraki, have about 40 devices in place at the moment, and expect to saturate the campus with about 260 devices. Our initial experience shows a substantial increase in performance over our existing b/g system, but a full report on performance

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student 802.1x

What attribute do you use to transmit the user's group within RADIUS? On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote: Hi Tom, We use forwarding of RADIUS accounting data (as users authenticate to 802.1x) into our NAC system- (using Cisco LWAPP, ACS and Impulse

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student 802.1x

, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM, John Rodkey rod...@westmont.edu wrote: What attribute do you use to transmit the user's group within RADIUS? On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote: Hi Tom, We use forwarding of RADIUS accounting data (as users authenticate

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student 802.1x

displays this program. The program will then autoconfigure they're supplicant to authenticated to the network. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM, John Rodkey rod...@westmont.edu wrote: What attribute do you use to transmit the user's group within RADIUS? On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Lee H

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student 802.1x

, Nobody has said it yet (which I'm surprised) You might want to look into http://www.cloudpath.net/ which is program you can distribute that On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM, John Rodkey rod...@westmont.edu wrote: What attribute do you use to transmit the user's group within RADIUS

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n thoughts?

for several years, minimum, on our campus. John Rodkey Associate director of I.T. Westmont Simon Kissler wrote: Lee, I don't know if it's an issue of not thinking about it. I for one keep my eye on it, but until a standard is ratified and we get some gear with that standard on campus to do some

Siemens Wireless

We are being given a quote by Siemens for installation of wireless to compete with quotes by Xirrus, Meru and Cisco. However, I haven't heard of Siemens in connection with wireless, and I am curious what experience others have had with Siemens wireless. John Rodkey Associate Director of I.T