We have a couple of spots where ductwork-laden soffits and similar made being in the hallway a bad choice, and so we moved into student rooms where necessary. But as a rule, we stay in common spaces.
Bear in mind- for highly accurate location services, the "down the middle" design approach is wrong. You need to be at building edges and room edges with proper density if you really, really planned on making use of high-accuracy wireless location services. ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John Kaftan Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:32 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure I have always thought we would install in the hallways. For those of you who have said they install in student rooms I'd like to understand when and why you do so. I've assumed that we would want to always have access in case an AP goes south. John Kaftan Infrastructure Manager Utica College 315.792.3102 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter P Morrissey Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:23 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure We're going on about 3,000 installed, and I think one may have been vandalized. Our students love their wireless and seem to understand what makes it possible. There is clearly no ROI for enclosures. You can install a lot of extra wireless connectivity for the price you would pay for the enclosures and invest in a couple of spares for insurance. Hall phones are another matter. Those get destroyed on a regular basis. Pete M. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe Rogers Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:16 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure We too elected to install our residence hall access points without protective enclosures. So far there have been no issues in the past ~4 years with the approximately 1100 we have deployed. We do normally place them into student rooms rather than hallways or common areas so that we know who to talk to if there ever is a problem. Joe On 03/17/2011 12:08 PM, Michael P Hizny wrote: We installed AP enclosures in our first dorm building when we went wireless. After that we decided to take a chance and see what happened instead of adding the extra cost. The students see the wireless as a great service. In 4 years we have not had one vandalized. We have over 800 of them installed in our residence halls on both the walls and on the ceiling. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>] On Behalf Of John Kaftan Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:40 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] AP Enclosure Has anybody found a good solution for AP enclosures? Our older Residence Halls do not have drop ceilings so we cannot hide the APs. We have found that most things visible get destroyed. Our standard APs have internal antennas so I'd like to find a box that is RF transparent. I found one by Oberon Model 1025 but at $240 ea I don't see us making it happen. I do have some older APs I can use that are a\b\g that have external antennas that I can use if need be. http://oberonwireless.com/outdoor_nema-access-point-enclosures.php ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com> Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1498/3512 - Release Date: 03/17/11 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
