Dan,
We were one of the first colleges nationally to provide wired “gigabit to the
pillow” in all of our residential halls. Today, those residential halls are
WiFi-only and we’ve abandoned the wired, going as far as to remove the copper
doing renovations.
Done well, with dense coverage
The main reasons we keep running one port per pillow is gaming and research
projects.
Students want their gaming PCs to have wired Ethernet, and they sometimes
need to transfer large files for research or classwork.
As a result of these factors, we'll likely keep installing the drops to
each
How do your xbox users feel about it?
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Only in Student Housing?
Last year we converted
I don't see a need for port-to-pillow anymore, but I believe it is still
helpful to have wired jacks in common spaces for the building and common
rooms within suites.
Part of the belief stems from the idea there is a difference between what
students' natural behavior would be and what it will be
I don’t want to hijack Dan’s thread, but I wouldn’t mind adding to it if he
doesn’t mind.
I know from previous threads that lots of schools have gone Wi-Fi-only, and
issues are minimal. But, as an institution that has both wired and wireless
enabled throughout the residence halls, about 15%
We just opened a building with a wallplate AP in every room. Any wired
connections needed are plugged into the jacks on the bottom of the wallplate.
Things seem okay so far but we haven’t made it to our worst day which is the
first Tuesday of semester which causes the most stress on our
Dear Daniel
We have done this to most of our residence buildings for more than three years.
Before, we gave them wired connection and IP phones. We found that many jacks
in the rooms were broken, and we spent a lot to do the maintenance on the jacks
and phones.
Three years ago, we concluded
+1 for the hospitality APs. That’s what we use in all of our new dorm installs.
95% of our dorm access is on our wireless network with a few gaming systems
using the wired ports on the APs.
-Erik
Erik W Stagg
Manager – Networking and Infrastructure
Northern Kentucky University
O: 859-572-1374
Last year we converted our first residence hall to wireless only and there were
minimal challenges. You could consider installing the small hospitality APs
in the rooms and then there would be wired ports available if necessary.
Bruce Entwistle
Network Manager
University of Redlands
From:
Hi All,
We are looking into building a new student housing building and are
considering going Wifi only for network connectivity. We were wondering if
anyone else has gone the route of only allowing network connectivity via
wireless. If so, can you share your experience, lessons learned, and
It’s important to separate marketing from the reality of how the technology
functions.
* Band Steering – Cisco didn’t say it was impossible, what they said was
that the client side of the equation was so fraught with issues that the
feature would lead to greater problems, especially in
We have something similar, only dual boot Windows 10 / Ubuntu (for promiscuous
mode packet capture). While currently on a standard laptop, I really like the
usability and flexibility of the latest 2-in-1s as compared to something like a
Surface Pro (we have a few of those in users' hands) or a
I can't say I love ClearPass (we use it) and the recent relicensing felt very
much like yet another revenue grab. Not sure the grass is totally greener
anywhere. If Mist would tone down the buzzword-driven marketing and start
highlighting real-world value proposition and case studies of very
Actually Aruba has moved from the "HA Pair" structure to a Cluster structure in
AOS 8. We have 8 controllers in our Campus Cluster. Actually, the AP, SSID, &
client can all be on different controllers within the cluster, each with a
designated backup controller.
Since our cluster is split
Aruba introduced client band steering before we became their customer in 2008.
At that time Cisco said band steering was not possible. Aruba has had spectrum
monitoring since before Cisco’s CleanAir technology. We know who is following
whom. That is why we made our choice.
Aruba has had ap
Aruba has its problems too, but they try to minimize them. Do not forget that,
for many years, Aruba was a wireless-only company. Their wireless needed to
work for them to remain profitable. For Cisco, wireless is just another product
line in a large portfolio.
The above comments are my
We are running the conservative release in the 8.2 series. We are currently
planning on moving to 8.3 during Christmas break. Hopefully it will have
reached the stability for a conservative release by then.
Bruce Osborne
Senior Network Engineer
Network Operations - Wireless
(434) 592-4229
18 months ago I experienced a version upgrade on the active system at a
conference.
In our initial failover testing here, we had a client set up doing a continuous
ping to a target. We took our network from4 controllers down to 1. The AP &
client roamed seamlessly such that not one ping was
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