WLC and Guest accounts

2011-09-13 Thread Lay, Daniel
Hey all, Just wanted to share a little something I learned about ACL's and routing guests to a web site after the customized Webauth page redirect. If you use the CISCO customized web auth and then want to route the user to another website; you can create an ACL with only that we

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Signal variability after upgrade to 7.0.116

2011-09-02 Thread Lay, Daniel
We have experienced a similar issue. I had 1131's in several buildings and coverage was decent. At the time that was acceptable because wireless was treated as an convenience. Now perceptions have changed to wireless is mandatory; so in light of that we upgraded several buildings to the 3500s an

RE: Interference in dorms.

2011-07-25 Thread Lay, Daniel
. > > > > > > We are considering adding a 5GHz only SSID in the dorms to encourage > users to use 5 GHz ( we do have band steering enabled, but a dedicated > SSID would insure that devices only use 5GHz and not fall back to 2.4). > > > > > > We'll see w

Interference in dorms.

2011-07-21 Thread Lay, Daniel
Last year we had several students that would complain about poor wireless coverage in their rooms. It was usually followed by the comment that they did not have this problem at home or in other areas of the campus. After performing various test and wireless scans I am of the opinion that a good

Apple TV on a Cisco wireless network

2011-04-21 Thread Lay, Daniel
We have a professor that has a strong desire to use apple TV wirelessly. We are now running Cisco 4400's on code level 7.0.116.0 and WCS version 7.0.172.0 From what I have looked at so far it looks like I am going to need to turn on multicast DNS. Has anyone had any positive or negative experien

Strange Cisco AP problem

2011-04-15 Thread Lay, Daniel
I have run into a very odd issue. We have received complaints from students that they are having wireless issues in specific dorm areas. After receiving such a report I went to investigate, I walked the entire dorm connecting to each AP with several devices(an iphone, an Ipad, a XOOM tablet, and

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WLC code

2011-03-25 Thread Lay, Daniel
Has anyone successfully used Webauth and Cloudpath Xpressconnect with 802.11x and WPA2 enterprise with Android 2.2? We are running 6.0.199.4 on our 4400's. The redirect works sometimes and then sometimes it won't. Daniel Lay l Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Grou

Wireless Planning

2011-03-07 Thread Lay, Daniel
I am working on a plan for wireless in one of our libraries. So far I cannot find an assumed standard for Db loss from bookshelves filled with books. Now granted that various configurations will have varied path loss, has anyone arrived at an average number to use in planning situations? Danie