Hey Dave,
And a follow up question would be 'what makes it bad?'
We have had wifi blues during semester startup a number of times over the
years. Some have been coverage related, some have been throughput related, some
have been router/DHCP related, and we have even had some that were protocol
It is interesting, when I started doing wireless almost 20 years ago, before
lightweight really existed, wireless was always positioned as a best effort and
wired was definitely the way to go if a reliable connection was required.
Today, wireless has become a replacement for wired in many
The jury is still out on whether there is such a thing as good WI-Fi..
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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi expectations/service
Thanks Eric,
I like the sticker option, that may stop the tinkerers out there. Oberon are
certainly on our list of places to look for a protective box.
Thanks
Sean
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Sent: September 23, 2021 11:19 AM
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Hi All,
Coming out of a very rough fall semester start that left many of our users
suffering with “bad” Wi-Fi, we’ve since (understandably) been asked what
constitutes “good” Wi-Fi. We have not previously published information to our
community on what they should expect or on how they can
We use standard flush-mount boxes, such that there is no protruding box to
tamper with most of time; the device is flush with the wall. If a protruding
box must be installed, there really is no way to prevent people from making
holes in it or ripping it off.
We utilize the locking screw with
Hi Sean,
We have quite a number of the 1815W access points deployed throughout our
campus housing as well. We haven't noticed much issue with the LAN ports
on the bottom getting damaged, but we have had occasional issues with
students disconnecting them. Ours are primarily mounted on surface
Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all surviving another semester start up without too much pain!
We have a large number of wall mounted Cisco 1815w access points on campus.
Lately we have noticed that the LAN ports are getting damaged and are looking
at way to stop people tampering with the patch
