Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-25 Thread Heath Barnhart
When we did our redesign last summer, I planned on 30 per AP (even though they were dual band). As a worst case scenario, I was planning on each student in the cell having 3-4 devices each. However, I found (at least this semester) most students are averaging only two devices, so there is room

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-24 Thread Ian McDonald
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey High density doesn't surprise me very much. We try to track general student wireless device, and this last year and this we had a decent amount (I forget the percentage, but it was non-trivial) that had three wireless devices per person

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-24 Thread Bob Williamson
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian McDonald Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 10:56 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey Ok, 3 per person is about what we see too, but then we've an ap:student ratio of approx

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-24 Thread Jeff Kell
On 2/24/2013 7:45 PM, Bob Williamson wrote: What is considered to be too many clients per AP? We have 30 APs and 450 K-12 students (100 of which are dorm students). We also have a number of carts containing 15+ laptops the move around the school, carts with 15+ Ipads moving around the

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-24 Thread Joel Coehoorn
Don't think in terms of clients per AP. Think in terms of clients per radio, as some access points have more than one radio. At this point, it depends on what you're doing. 25 per radio is a good rule of thumb, but for some things we go as high as 30. For other things, like asking a full

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-22 Thread Tom O'Donnell
I assume I'm not the only who's thinking this... Could I get a copy of whatever results you end up with in this survey? Thanks, -- Tom O'Donnell Senior Manager of Network and Server Systems Information Technology Services University of

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-22 Thread Julian Y Koh
On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:56 , Tom O'Donnell to...@maine.edu wrote: I assume I'm not the only who's thinking this... Could I get a copy of whatever results you end up with in this survey? I'm definitely planning on sharing general/aggregate results of the survey with the list. Will probably be

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-22 Thread Julian Y Koh
On Feb 22, 2013, at 13:00 , Julian Y Koh kohs...@northwestern.edu wrote: As of right now there are 32 responses. And in the last 20 minutes that shot up to 43. :) -- Julian Y. Koh Manager, Network Transport, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University Information

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Reboli
] On Behalf Of Julian Y Koh Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:20 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey On Feb 22, 2013, at 13:00 , Julian Y Koh kohs...@northwestern.edu wrote: As of right now there are 32 responses. And in the last 20

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-22 Thread Cian Phillips
-Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Julian Y Koh Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:20 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-22 Thread Julian Y Koh
On Feb 22, 2013, at 13:59 , Entwistle, Bruce bruce_entwis...@redlands.edu wrote: Add me to the list. OK, there's no need for everyone to respond - as I wrote before, we're going to be sending the total/aggregate results to the entire list. :) -- Julian Y. Koh Manager, Network

Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-20 Thread Julian Y Koh
Greetings all! The recent thread on residence hall AP placement, coupled with our own performance issues that we are getting reports on from the residence halls, has prompted me to throw together another survey so that we can present some data to our Student Affairs department as to what other