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Dan Brisson --- Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls ---
From: | "Dan Brisson" <dbris...@uvm.edu> |
To | WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU |
Date: | Wed, 2012-12-19 6:58 AM |
Subject | Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls |
David, Two summers ago we installed about 500 Access Points in our Residence Halls. About 90% of them were installed directly in student rooms. The remaining 10% went above ceiling tiles in the hallway. We did this primarily b/c our Res Life staff was concerned about damage to the APs and not being able to attribute the damage to any one person. With the units in the rooms, the students in those rooms are responsible.
To my pleasant surprise, we have not had one issue with a student tampering with an AP. I would guess this has to do with 1) they are warned by Res Life staff at move-in time and 2) everybody uses the Internet nowadays so they would be shooting themselves in the foot by taking it down. From a design standpoint, while it probably takes more APs to get the same amount of coverage by placing them in the rooms, it makes for a cleaner WiFi environment by decreasing the size of the cells. We made sure 5Ghz was as strong as reasonably possible in all areas in the hopes that it would keep devices out of the dirty 2.4Ghz space. I can't say that we've been entirely successful, but I think that could also be due to many 2-3 year old devices that don't have 5Ghz radios. Back to cell size for a moment. Because the density of users/devices is so high in these buildings, the cell sizes should be small anyway to make sure there's enough spectrum available to keep people happy. If you'd like any other information, feel free to contact me directly off-list. Regards, -dan Dan Brisson Network Engineer University of Vermont (Ph) 802.656.8111 dbris...@uvm.edu On 12/19/2012 8:36 AM, David Robertson wrote: > We are looking at how we install wireless in our Residence Halls for > coverage. Currently we only place access points in the hallways, but > are looking at moving them into the rooms for better coverage. We were > wondering if anyone else -Your data has been truncated. __________________________________________________________________________
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- Wireless in Residence Halls David Robertson
- Re: Wireless in Residence Halls Rick Coloccia
- Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls Dan Brisson
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- RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls Christopher Brizzell
- RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls Linchuan Yang
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- Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls Karl Reuss
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- RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Halls Jennings, Larry W
- RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence Hal... Brian Helman
- RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Residence... Lee H Badman
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