Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:11:00 -0800



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Dan Brisson --- Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls ---

From:"Dan Brisson" <dbris...@uvm.edu>
ToWIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Date:Wed, 2012-12-19 6:58 AM
SubjectRe: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls

David,

Two summers ago we installed about 500 Access Points in our Residence 
Halls.  About 90% of them were installed directly in student rooms.  The 
remaining 10% went above ceiling tiles in the hallway.  We did this 
primarily b/c our Res Life staff was concerned about damage to the APs 
and not being able to attribute the damage to any one person.  With the 
units in the rooms, the students in those rooms are responsible.

To my pleasant surprise, we have not had one issue with a student 
tampering with an AP.  I would guess this has to do with 1) they are 
warned by Res Life staff at move-in time and 2) everybody uses the 
Internet nowadays so they would be shooting themselves in the foot by 
taking it down.

 From a design standpoint, while it probably takes more APs to get the 
same amount of coverage by placing them in the rooms, it makes for a 
cleaner WiFi environment by decreasing the size of the cells.   We made 
sure 5Ghz was as strong as reasonably possible in all areas in the hopes 
that it would keep devices out of the dirty 2.4Ghz space.  I can't say 
that we've been entirely successful, but I think that could also be due 
to many 2-3 year old devices that don't have 5Ghz radios.

Back to cell size for a moment.  Because the density of users/devices is 
so high in these buildings, the cell sizes should be small anyway to 
make sure there's enough spectrum available to keep people happy.

If you'd like any other information, feel free to contact me directly 
off-list.

Regards,
-dan


Dan Brisson
Network Engineer
University of Vermont
(Ph) 802.656.8111
dbris...@uvm.edu

On 12/19/2012 8:36 AM, David Robertson wrote:
> We are looking at how we install wireless in our Residence Halls for 
> coverage.  Currently we only place access points in the hallways, but 
> are looking at moving them into the rooms for better coverage. We were 
> wondering if anyone else -Your data has been truncated.
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