Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi Guest/Visitor Network

2020-01-20 Thread Craig Simons
responded and I fully expect to use the results as part of our discussion on designing the service we will be rolling out in the next few months. Survey Dashboard link here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/stories/SM-ZFKWT2Z7/ Regards, Craig Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Simon Fraser University

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi Guest/Visitor Network

2020-01-20 Thread Craig Simons
Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Simon Fraser University | Strand Hall University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 T: 778.782.8036 | M: 604.649.7977 On Jan 8, 2020, at 12:41 PM, Craig Simons wrote:  Fellow peers, Simon Fraser University is planning on deploying a guest network to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wi-Fi Guest/Visitor Network

2020-01-09 Thread Craig Simons
, for those without an existing guest management platform, ANYROAM (and eVA) should definitely be given consideration. Thanks for your feedback! Craig Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Simon Fraser University | Water Tower 224 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 T: 778.782.8036 | M

Wi-Fi Guest/Visitor Network

2020-01-08 Thread Craig Simons
! Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Simon Fraser University | Strand Hall University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 T: 778.782.8036 | M: 604.649.7977 SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY IT SERVICES ** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Radius certificate length vs. onboarding opinions

2017-11-02 Thread Craig Simons
Rich, Thank you for your detailed response. I should state that our certificate challenges were in fact due to the issuer chain changing (SHA-1 to SHA-2). Perhaps in the near-term, another certificate in the same chain would not be a repeat of last time. Still, with >60% of our mobile devices b

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Radius certificate length vs. onboarding opinions

2017-10-30 Thread Craig Simons
to play for EAP-TLS in the future. In the IoT world, the willingness of users to put their personal credentials on low-end devices is a security threat before even getting to the certificate conversation. Thanks to all that replied! Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Simon Fraser

Radius certificate length vs. onboarding opinions

2017-10-30 Thread Craig Simons
ion issues. Option 4 (probably the best long-term answer): Move to private PKI and EAP-TLS. Opinions? Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Simon Fraser University | Strand Hall University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 T: 778.782.8036 | M: 604.649.7977 | www.sfu.ca/itservices <http

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Canadian colleges and universities Wi-Fi

2017-05-29 Thread Craig Simons
Simon Fraser ~1200 APs, 24k concurrent (Fall semesters) devices, mix of 802.11n, Wave 1 AC. 35k FTE, 5K staff/faculty. SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell: 604-649-7977 Email: craigsim...@sfu.ca <mailto:craig

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Beacon Intervals

2016-05-30 Thread Craig Simons
s. > > Jeff > > From: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" > on behalf of Craig Simons > > Reply-To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" > > Date: Friday, May 27, 2016 at 12:44 PM > To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" > Subj

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Beacon Intervals

2016-05-30 Thread Craig Simons
signal strength. This allows the AP to transmit more often and could provide > more downstream data to your client devices. > > Sorry that’s such a long explanation but hope it helps. > > GT > > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > <ma

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Beacon Intervals

2016-05-27 Thread Craig Simons
; Senior Network Communications Specialist | > University of Alaska <http://www.alaska.edu/oit> | > 907.450.8250 > > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Craig Simons <mailto:craigsim...@sfu.ca>> wrote: > Hello Group, > > On most vendor products that I’v

Beacon Intervals

2016-05-26 Thread Craig Simons
Hello Group, On most vendor products that I’ve seen, the beacon intervals for SSIDs by default are set to ~100ms. Has anyone gone to the lengths of increasing this default in an effort to combat overhead? - Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Interactive Teaching - Top Hat, Clickers, etc

2016-05-12 Thread Craig Simons
: > > Take a look at poll everywhere https://www.polleverywhere.com/ > > It works across a lot of services including SMS, and it has very little IT > involvement. > > Jeff > > From: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" > on behalf of Craig Simons >

Interactive Teaching - Top Hat, Clickers, etc

2016-05-12 Thread Craig Simons
ither proven wrong or comforted in my well founded suspicions… Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell: 604-649-7977 Email: craigsim...@sfu.ca Twitter: simonscraig <http://www.twitter.

Best practices for 802.1x (TTLS/PEAP) certificates

2014-03-24 Thread Craig Simons
hings that are done through the CA interface? Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrator Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell: 604-649-7977 Email: craigsim...@sfu.ca Twitter: simonscraig ** Participation and subscription infor

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam technical questions

2012-11-14 Thread Craig Simons
Our approach is to block MAC addresses of banned machines directly on the switch port using vendor specific features on our switching gear. However, as the Radius requests are still created by your own equipment (which would presumably have MAC address Calling-Station-Id information), you could

WiFi Direct

2012-11-05 Thread Craig Simons
interested in what each of you are planning and whether or not anyone has done any testing in a production environment. Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrator Phone: 778-782-8036

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds

2012-09-27 Thread Craig Simons
e about half of our APs were in protection mode at any given time, even though not a single 802.11b client was connected. - Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrator Phone: 778-782-8036 Cel

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] FreeRADIUS performance question

2012-09-05 Thread Craig Simons
47 ns-ryu.its.sfu.ca 50 ns-ryu.its.sfu.ca Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrator Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell: 604-649-7977 Email: craigsim...@sfu.ca Twitter: simonscraig

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Betr.: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Client Subnet sizing

2012-08-02 Thread Craig Simons
on ourselves and move to /21s and save the hassle of balancing? Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrator Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell: 604-649-7977 Email: craigsim...@sfu.ca Twitter

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Client Subnet sizing

2012-07-31 Thread Craig Simons
wired segments that would cause all sorts of spanning tree fun - stuff that doesn't really apply here. Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrator Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell:

Wireless Client Subnet sizing

2012-07-31 Thread Craig Simons
in your opinions, Craig ---------- Craig Simons Network Operations Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC, Canada em. craigsim...@sfu.ca ph. 778-782-8036 ce. 604-649-7977 tw. twitter.com/simonscraig -- ** Participation and sub

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disappointing numbers of 5ghz clients

2011-09-26 Thread Craig Simons
o be made in rf design (beefing up the relative strength of 5g signal strengths), but mostly waiting for the market to catch up like everyone else. Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrat

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wifi Support Staff

2011-07-26 Thread Craig Simons
more effort, we could really nail down some of the rf inefficiencies in our setup. However, I think everyone in IT could say the same thing about what they do too... Regards, Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network and Sys

Active Directory authentication for loaned out laptops over wireless

2011-07-20 Thread Craig Simons
to it. Does anyone have any experience with this type of situation and could offer some advice? Regards, Craig ------ Craig Simons Network Operations Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC, Canada em. craigsim...@sfu.ca ph. 778-782-8036 ce. 604-649-797

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS devices on wireless

2011-06-23 Thread Craig Simons
e way back home from class. This a small consideration if your deployment allows the user's session to roam across your campus, but potentially a support issue ("I can only see my home devices SOME of the time). Regards, Craig ------ Craig Simons Net

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless design

2011-06-09 Thread Craig Simons
etwork Services Craig Simons Network and Systems Administrator Phone: 778-782-8036 Cell: 604-649-7977 Email: craigsim...@sfu.ca Twitter: simonscraig - Original Message - From: "Mike King" To: WIRELESS-LAN@listserv.educause.edu Sent: Wednesday, 8 June, 2011 18:15:06 S

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dual radio APs, .11n on 2.4ghz radios or not?

2011-05-27 Thread Craig Simons
to allow gaming devices in my opinion. But that's me talking, not my CIO ;) ------ Craig Simons Network Operations Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC, Canada em. craigsim...@sfu.ca ph. 778-782-8036 ce. 604-64

Dual radio APs, .11n on 2.4ghz radios or not?

2011-05-26 Thread Craig Simons
e 2.4 band, but I'd like to tweak as many things as possible to get the best performance in dense areas. Regards, Craig ------ Craig Simons Network Operations Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC, Canada em. craigsim...@sfu.ca ph. 778-782-8036 ce.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] How is the surge in Wi-Fi equipped mobile devices impacting the WLAN?

2011-05-19 Thread Craig Simons
doing easy things like disable .11b, block chatty protocols (multicast, broadcast), better tune our AP transmit power. This should be enough for students to check their Facebook pages and twitter feeds when they should be paying attention in class ;) Regards, Craig --