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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:26:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Lee Barken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [SDWUG] Article: College WLANs put to the test
College WLANs put to the test
Source: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103campuswlan.html
Each fr
We have put wired and wireless connections in our new student
apartments, wireless only in our residence halls,and wired
only in the married student apartments. Mobility computing
and collaborative work are better supported with wireless,
while the wired connections are really suited to individua
You bring up some very interesting points. I have two questions:
1. Does your entire campus have wireless, is so what manufacturer?
2. You stated that you provide students with PCs, how does this system
work. We are considering some kind of system, but are unsure how to
roll it out
Thanks
Mark
I echo what others have said. Having to go in and wire/re-wire an
exiting dorm is an extremely time-consuming process. We've provided
campus-wide wireless access including our dorms since the summer of
2000. We provide laptops to all students so we witnessed our wired
connections drop from appro
I have always viewed WLANs as a complimentary technology to LANs and not
a replacement. You'll always be an order of magnitude or two away in
performance and you'll hard pressed to shape the characteristics of a
shared medium (on a per port or per user basis) like you can a switched
medium.
The c
My strong recommendation is to install wireless as an overlay
technology to a wired infrastructure. Wireless is a tremendous
convenience and I'm fairly confident that pulling copper will vanish
at some point in time. I am very confident that today isn't that
point in time. We chose to exclusively u
My university has started building dorms (to this point we've been
mostly commuter). While we've wired every room and given switched
100Mbps to the pillow, there is some question as to whether we should be
providing wireless as well or instead of wired. Personally, I think
switched 100M is prefer
