I imagine they are happy because they continue to pay for the connection from the other ISP.
I also imagine they are happy because I stayed in those same dorms in 2010-2012, had a connection from Knology, and ran my own AP. Worked fine for me. I'm sure there were a bunch of people in Network Services cursing me... the same ones I work with now. (Maybe they're still cursing me, for different reasons. Who knows.) On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 06:39 Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations) < bosbo...@liberty.edu> wrote: > 1are they really happy or do they know they have nobody to blame but > themselves for poor choices? > > > > Just another thought. > > > > > > *Bruce Osborne* > > *Senior Network Engineer* > > *Network Operations - Wireless* > > > > *(434) 592-4229* > > > > *LIBERTY UNIVERSITY* > > *Training Champions for Christ since 1971* > > > > *From:* Hunter Fuller [mailto:hf0...@uah.edu] > *Sent:* Monday, February 20, 2017 1:53 PM > *Subject:* Re: In room WIFI - second example > > > > Bruce, > > > > I have had this mindset for a long time, but I've been questioning it > recently. > > Due to a political situation I won't bother going into, our dorm residents > are able to purchase internet connections from wideopenwest or Comcast. > They set up their own APs and some of our dorms are rogue nightmares. We've > made a heavy push to 5GHz to combat this. > > > > But it made me wonder... what is up with this? These students set up the > cheapest APs they can find at Best Buy, blasting at 100000 watts of power > on 2GHz, right next to 3 other students doing the same thing. All students > are happy with their comcast connection and wireless performance. Meanwhile > UAH invests thousands upon thousands into enterprise wireless and it simply > cannot operate under those conditions...? > > It just makes me wonder, is all... > > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 07:06 Osborne, Bruce W (Network Operations) < > bosbo...@liberty.edu> wrote: > > My first thought is this. > > Are these boxes centrally managed? It appears you are using WPA2-Personal. > If so, it would be a pain to need to revisit each box every year to change > the PSK. > How is channel coordination happening to minimize interference? > How will you handle misbehaving devices DOSing the network while > minimizing the impact to roommates? > How are you steering clients to use 5GHz for better performance? > > There are reasons there are Enterprise wireless systems with enterprise > encryption options. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Blaisdell [mailto:mblaisd...@francis.edu] > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 8:52 PM > Subject: In room WIFI - second example > > I had posted to the group a few months ago about WAPs in each dorm room. > I received a number of comments that were very insightful. Most agreed > that channel plan in the 2.4 would be next to impossible and the best plan > would be to turn off maybe every other radio and turn back the power. As > for 5.8 I believe we agreed that channel width should be a minimum because > we are not going for speed, we are going to coverage. > > I am back at the table with another twist. I have been testing Microtik > HAP AC lite boxes with 4 10/100 ports and both 2.4 and 5.8 radios. I also > have the box setup as a router for their room. I think we can call it a > DAN. Dorm Area Network. The students in the room share a common DHCP > server and have NAT access to the campus LAN. This allows the students to > add devices in their rooms as they need to without affecting the network. > The HAP also has two way firewall config so I can block all the ports and > services I would normally but I can do it at the end point. I guess the > dorms are running like an individual household and I am the ISP. > > Each room has a unique SSID and authentication. > > This is just a test in a few locations at this point but it has worked > great. > > I am looking for feedback like last time. Please feel free to cut hard > and deep if necessary. Security issues could be my biggest issues. > > Thanks > > > > Michael Blaisdell > Director of Network Services > IT Services > Learning Commons/Library > Saint Francis University > 117 Evergreen Drive > Loretto, PA 15940 > 814-472-3242 > http://www.francis.edu > The best way to predict the future is to invent it. 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