If you move your design planning toward dense 5GHz and designate 2.4 as a legacy wasteland, these devices have little impact. Even if these devices more toward 5GHz, the abundance of channels coupled with low signal propagation and vendor channel management e.g. DCA in Cisco speak, greatly enhance coexistence. Since you mention Cisco, use of CleanAir equipped APs in residence halls (even in small quantities) provide significant RF visibility, and you’ll know exactly what’s out there and impacting your environment.
That’s a long way of saying you will never legislate these devices out of existence, and it’s far better to invest resources in technology that help with coexistence vs expending energy on confiscating/banning them. Jeff From: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of "Davis, Steve" <sda...@lockhaven.edu> Reply-To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 8:06 AM To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless printers and other devices in residence halls I wanted to get an idea how everyone is handling students bringing in all types of wireless devices, which are basically access points. We have so many printers, TVs, Roku devices, game systems and who knows what else out there in the student rooms and these devices are causing issues with our campus wireless network. Do you allow these devices on your network? If not, how do you prevent the students from having them? I have Cisco wireless controllers where I can block rogue APs but that keeps the APs which are containing the rogue AP from servicing the clients and I don’t have dense enough coverage to be able to do this for every rogue device. Thanks in advance -Steve Steve Davis | Network Manager Department of Technology Infrastructure Lock Haven University 519 Robinson Hall 401 North Fairview Street, Lock Haven, PA 17745 Phone: 570-484-2290 | sda...@lockhaven.edu<mailto:sda...@lockhaven.edu> | www.lockhaven.edu<http://www.lockhaven.edu/> Connect with us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/LockHavenUniv/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/LockHavenUniv> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/LHU1870> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
