RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPad Experiences
I've been lurking on this list for years, and have posted only a few times, but after I stopped rolling on the floor in painful laughter, I just had to say Thanks Lee. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:02 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPad Experiences In response to Apple's guidance, we've given out the user name and password to our wireless management system so IPad users can configure our access points as they need to fix their connectivity problems. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk - iName.com Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:49 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPad Experiences More here: http://www.fiercemobileit.com/story/apple-ipad-users-report-wifi-connectivity-problems/2010-04-06?utm_medium=nlutm_source=internal Frank From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Peter P Morrissey Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:09 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPad Experiences Has anyone seen much iPad action on their networks yet? I heard today that we have around 10 of them doing Active Sync with email. We had a couple of support calls early Monday indicating problems with our Impulse/SafeConnect NAC system identifying them properly. Since then Impulse put in a patch that apparently fixed it. Our xpressconnect config tool worked fine using their tool, choosing the same option that configs iPods, etc. We have also been testing our own iPad today and haven't seen any issues yet. We noticed that the Apple's auto config worked as well for our own 802.1x network, with the caveat that it made it possible for someone to fake the certificate. Pete Morrissey ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
RE: Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiplecontrollers
Connell kconn...@ryerson.ca To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Sent: Friday, March 6, 2009 8:39:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiplecontrollers We did a trial on both... For us the MMS was unreliable and some of the tools (like finding users) just didn't work. We were constantly rebooting and tweaking, but I must note we had the software version not the appliance. The airwave product for us was great with stats, finding users and what not, but the config for Aruba just isn't there yet, and for that reason we haven't committed. Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709 From: Steely, John Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:11:18 -0500 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers I am curious if we have any Aruba shops on the list who have Airwave, but also had experience with the Aruba MMS appliance and would be willing to share your thoughts on comparing the two? Thanks in advance, John John Steely Associate Director Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1613 (Voice) 717-245-1690 (Fax) ste...@dickinson.edumailto:ste...@dickinson.edu From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:55 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers Wondering how bigger Aruba shops are centrally managing multiple controllers? From what I can tell right now, AirWave is pretty much an effective graphical monitoring tool, but is pretty anemic at configuration of Aruba. Am I missing something? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
RE: Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers
I am curious if we have any Aruba shops on the list who have Airwave, but also had experience with the Aruba MMS appliance and would be willing to share your thoughts on comparing the two? Thanks in advance, John John Steely Associate Director Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1613 (Voice) 717-245-1690 (Fax) ste...@dickinson.edumailto:ste...@dickinson.edu From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:55 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers Wondering how bigger Aruba shops are centrally managing multiple controllers? From what I can tell right now, AirWave is pretty much an effective graphical monitoring tool, but is pretty anemic at configuration of Aruba. Am I missing something? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] University of Chicago Removes Wireless From Classroom
I believe that you are playing with fire when you start offering that type of control. What if one faculty member wants it, but another, who shares the same classroom, does not? Even if you remove APs in one building with classrooms, there's no guarantee that an adjacent admin or residential building won't bleed in. Do you then turn those buildings down, and wait for the cries of poor coverage to start? Dangerous waters, IMHO. John Steely Associate Director Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1613 (Voice) 717-245-1690 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zeller, Tom S Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:29 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] University of Chicago Removes Wireless From Classroom My personal opinion is that it is not a good or even reasonable strategy to attempt to control WiFi in the classroom. For one thing, it's unlikely that an AP serves only a single classroom and no adjacent areas. Secondly, we can't control the cellular signal, so really there's not much benefit from a cheating standpoint. Tom Zeller Indiana University On 4/24/08 2:18 PM, Lee H Badman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1329 Are any other schools up against anything of this magnitude? Has anyone come up with a mechanism to let faculty have some control over wireless in classrooms? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Highrise dorm RF design
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has used the Xirrus array. In particular, is Xirrus your total Wi-Fi architecture, or have you successfully integrated it/created a coexistence with another vendor's solution? Thanks in advance. John Steely Network Manager Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1613 (Voice) 717-245-1690 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: David Gillett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:11 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Highrise dorm RF design Dropping power would only help a little, and at the expense of room penetration. Surely if your *floors* are only 10db, room penetration shouldn't be a problem, should it? I've stayed in hotels about this size that seemed to be adequately covered by an AP every couple of floors, alternately offset toward the ends Of course, usage volume is likely to be higher in a dorm, but if wired ports are also available then perhaps not beyond capacity. I haven't actually used them yet, but the places where I need density of coverage without reducing power, I'm looking at the Xirrus wi-fi array product as a likely solution. David Gillett -Original Message- From: Karl Reuss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:53 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Highrise dorm RF design We're getting ready to expand our campus wireless coverage into the dorms; full coverage for 12,000 students over the next year. The recent dorm discussions here have been very helpful. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with dense AP deployments in traditional high-rise dorms. About half of our students live in these monsters. 8 floors, 250' straight hallway down the middle of each, rooms on either side, block walls, 70 users per floor. Sort of like prison cells:) Our field guys and residential facilities folks would rather not put the APs in student rooms, which basically just leaves the hallways. I'm worried about co-channel interference on the b/g side. 6 or 7 APs down a hallway in clear sight of each other will surely step on each other. Loss through the floors only seems to be 10db, which means we need to watch the vertical as well. Dropping power would only help a little, and at the expense of room penetration. External patch antennas are one idea were looking at. If anyone has any experience or advice in this area they could share, I would be grateful! Thanks, -Karl Reuss University of Maryland, College Park ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anybody using Ethernet over Power solutions?
Steve, I've not seen the Corinex products, but have been watching the powerline solutions for some time. Most first generation devices were severely degraded by line noise on the circuit, but subsequent designs seem to be greatly improved. I have used the Netgear HDX101 devices, but only in a limited install. This particular model has the highest (theoretical) throughput, and also allows you to run multiple virtual powerline networks in the same building. However, I suspect the overhead of the powerline chatter happens at the expense of moving data. If you are only talking about a few APs, this product may do the trick. I'd be concerned about how it scales if you are looking at a larger-scale wireless install. Perhaps the Corniex company can send a few demo units? Best of luck with your project. I hope this helps. Cheers, John Steely Network Manager Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1613 (Voice) 717-245-1690 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Stephen Holland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:41 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anybody using Ethernet over Power solutions? I am trying to do wireless in an old historic building and I can't run any cables to the AP's. I was looking at an Ethernet over power solution from a company called Corinex. The idea is you use the building power wiring to carry your ethernet. Any place a power plug exists you plug in an adaptor and you have ethernet connectivity. Has anybody used these products or other Ethernet over power solutions? Have they worked for you?. Thanks so much Steve Holland Network Engineer Northeastern University ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Guest Access
Cully, We currently have three VLANs on our wireless system: One for students (non-broadcast SSID), and one for faculty and staff (also non-broadcast). These require network credentials for authentication. Then we have the broadcasted VLAN for guests/public use. This VLAN is effectively a secondary DMZ hanging off of our firewall, and has no access to the internal LAN at all. Hope this helps, John Steely Network Manager Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bennefield, Cully A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:03 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Guest Access We are exploring the possibility of offering guest wireless access and I would like to get a feel for how others might be handling it. Any and all information and opinions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cully Cully Bennefield Baylor University ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
