Hi Clint,
The AP208 have 2 radios, 11a & 11b/g. We have the laptops set up to
prefer 11a, so the bulk of the connections are 11a. MathCAD is
installed locally on the laptops, but the size of the student files vary
- probably comparable to a Powerpoint presentation. We used to do this
with Cisco AP1200s & had constant complaints. No more. We had the same
problem at exam times at our Law School. No more. Like I said, we are
very happy with the Meru products.
HTH
-John
Ringgold, Clint wrote:
Can you please give us more information in terms of how the APs and
Laptops were setup.
I'm no math major and on a bad day I have trouble adding (don't laugh).
Anyway, I'm just wondering if it was setup so you have
54+54+11+11=130/250(users)=.52 or 54+54+11=119/250(users)=.476. I am
not implying a thing. I'm asking this just for my clarification.
It sounds like the software may have been on the laptop and/or only the
answer or very small packets were saved to/from a server. If it is
"designed" to work with little bandwidth (like Citrix) then that is
great. I'm just saying it is a difference.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 8:28 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] many clients, one room
Hi Don,
We are a Meru customer & we've had great success with their system in
our large lecture rooms. On Friday, we had 250 Engineering students
taking an exam, which required MathCAD, on 2 Meru AP208s. The exam ran
flawlessly.
HTH
-John
Don Wright wrote:
I know this has been talked about and debated on this list
before,
but what are people doing today when faced with a request like the
need
"for 100 students simultaneously downloading a powerpoint
presentation".
Recently there was discussion on MCA vs. SCA vendors and how each
handles this worst case scenario. Since we are an MCA (Aruba), I'd
be
interested in hearing what others have done or are planning for large
classrooms and auditoriums.
--
Don Wright
Network Technologies Group
Brown University
wire --- less, wi-fi ))) more
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