We moved to all 303h on our dorms, set up every other room zig zag and alternating on different floors. We still have 2.4 turned on but at a low power since walls are thick. Our dorms used to have a single gang box with two ethernet, two phone and a coax. Since landlines are no longer in use, we were able to install the 303h extension frame available which allows you to add two keystone jacks in the bottom of it, perfect for the coax line.
Units also work with just AF power and give you 3 gig ports, as well as a passthrough port. One of the ports can also be PoE (if you use AT power), if you needed to add a phone for example. Price point on the 303h is almost half of a 315. Oh, and the 303h since they can work as IAP or controller based, they qualify for the buy 3 get 2 free Aruba promo. Not sure the limit on that. On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:53 PM Michael Cole <mc...@clarku.edu> wrote: > We have not turned down the 2.4 GHz radios, most of our res halls are > cement and brick bunkers from the 50’s and have been retooled with > utilities, but the brick and concrete has been our friend most of the time > with the radio signals. We also have some on streets that boarder the > neighborhood and do she those out there, but all in all it hasn’t been too > bad for us. We’ve tired to let ARM do it’s work and power up/down the > radios where it see fit. Our wireless network is pretty small compared to > some, <1400 access points in 40+ buildings, but some of those are pretty > small buildings. The res hall has <200 beds on average, some a of the > small res houses, <20 beds. The current set up has been running for 5+ > years now and we’ve been very happy with it and will upgrade access points > soon. We also added some non hospitality access points in lobby and study > rooms in the res halls, along with some outdoor rated access points to > cover the quads between halls to try to provide decent indoor outdoor > coverage where students congregate to study or play. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > Michael A. Cole > > Manager of Network Operations > > Information Technology Services > > Carlson Hall, 950 Main st > > Worcester, MA 01610 > > (508) 793 7772 > > > > > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv < > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> *On Behalf Of *King, Ronald A. > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 03, 2020 4:38 PM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* [EXT] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba > Hospitality Access Points > > > > Mike and the Group, > > > > For those of you that have deployed Aruba hospitality APs to every dorm > room, are there any concerns of interference? Do you shut down the 2.4 GHz > band on some of the APs? If so, how did you determine which ones to turn it > off? > > > > Thanks, > > Ron > > > > *Ronald King* > > *Director of Technical Services and OIT Security* > > > > *Office of Information Technology* > > (757) 823-2916 (Office) > > rak...@nsu.edu > > www.nsu.edu > <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsu.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cmcole%40CLARKU.EDU%7C4b4bf10428b945434c0c08d7bfbb8570%7Cb5b2263d68aa453eb972aa1421410f80%7C1%7C0%7C637188684444264113&sdata=kRrvkwP2g2bSI4r%2F481u3pG%2BIvq4mjAgZleWtyDGlJk%3D&reserved=0> > > @NSUCISO (Twitter) > > [image: NSU_logo_horiz_tag_4c - Smaller] > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv < > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> *On Behalf Of *Michael Cole > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:32 PM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality > Access Points > > > > We’ve used a lot more of the hospitality models than standard access > points, for us, 225’s. We try to put one in each student’s room for a > double or a single. It gives their 10 or so devices a home, and provides > wired interfaces if they want/ need to use them. This also provides decent > coverage is one goes down in a room, the rooms around them pick up the > traffic. The failure rate over the past 5 years has been very minimal, and > we’ve been very happy with them, vice putting one access point in an area > for a suite, or 4-6 rooms devices to connect to it. We getting ready to do > a refresh of access points and will put even more of the hospitality units > in, in houses/and a Dorm we didn’t put them in on the original install. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > Michael A. Cole > > Manager of Network Operations > > Information Technology Services > > Carlson Hall, 950 Main st > > Worcester, MA 01610 > > (508) 793 7772 > > > > > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv < > WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> *On Behalf Of *Ronald Loneker > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 03, 2020 4:26 PM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* [EXT] [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba Hospitality Access Points > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I've been following some of the various discussions where people have > mentioned using Aruba's hospitality access points and I e-mailed our vendor > who we use about them to compare them with the IAP 215 units we deployed a > few years ago in our residence halls. > > > > I didn't seem to get a good explanation so now I'm asking this group. > > > > For those who have deployed the hospitality access points, how do they > differ from an Aruba you would put in an academic/administrative building? > > > > Do you find you are putting more of them into a residence hall? > > > > I'd toy with the idea of possibly swapping the IAP-215 units with > hospitality units if the numbers were similar and we could move the IAP-215 > units into one of our buildings with legacy Arubas although from what I > think I'm reading, it looks like some of you are putting more into the > residence halls than we have put (it's definitely not one access point for > every one or two rooms based on the heat maps that were done). > > > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > > > Ron Loneker, Jr. > Director, IT Special Projects > College of Saint Elizabeth > Mahoney Library > 2 Convent Road > Morristown, NJ 07960 > > Phone: 973-290-4229 > > e-mail: rlone...@cse.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ********** > Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire > community list. 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