I suggested a USB adapter for the first time yesterday! An expensive alternative to asking your neighbor to turn off their bleating HP printer...but that was the option chosen.
You might want to survey the area to verify your hypothesis. My guess would be that you have more 18 year old printers and routers than 70 year old routers. If you do end up with a lot of hip grannies I might consider carving out a "Free Senior Wireless--complements of Moody" SSID and just give them free internet access to rid yourself of the problem. If you hunt gramps' routers down you can mark them as known rogues and let your auto-RF channel assignment do it's job and plan around them. Rand Rand P. Hall Director, Network Services askIT! Merrimack College 978-837-3532 rand.h...@merrimack.edu If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions. – Einstein On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Paul Walker <paul.wal...@moody.edu> wrote: > Has anyone suggested to students that only have single-band wireless > adapters to obtain a dual-band USB adapter for better performance (by > driving them to the 5ghz band)? If so, have you seen adapters that you > would not recommend in an enterprise environment? We have a Cisco wireless > infrastructure and have been testing the Cisco/Linksys AE3000 and newer > AE6000 USB adapters. No real feedback from students yet, but am looking > for other viable options to recommend if they exist.**** > > ** ** > > Background:**** > > We have one residence hall that is half student housing and half HUD > senior housing. We own the building, but can’t take full occupancy until > some date in the future (2018 maybe). Due to leasing agreements and such, > we don’t have students all on the same floors (students and seniors are > intermixed on every floor). This building is all wireless and has about 7 > APs per floor. We believe that due to the AP density and the possibility > that there is personal wireless (in the senior housing apartments) in > close proximity to our infrastructure, we could be dealing with a great > deal of interference in the 2.4 Ghz band. Roughly 53% of all wireless > devices on campus are running 802.11n on 2.4 Ghz. Almost every student > that has called to complain about a poor wireless experience in this hall > is using the 2.4 Ghz band. Hence the desire to provide options to our > students with single-band adapters to purchase something that is a dual > band.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > ** ** > > *Paul Walker* > > *Division Manager, Computer & Network Support | Information Systems* > > Moody Bible Institute**** > > 820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, IL 60610**** > > 312-329-4392**** > > www.moodyministries.net**** > > From the Word. To Life.**** > > ** ** > ********** 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/.
