There are gaps in coverage in SEM. Here's the report:
Approximately 50% coverage. The construction of the building is severly restricting the propogation of the wireless signal. We are currenlty undergoing a re-design to optimize the covered areas but total building coverage may not be possible. Four additional access points were added to to SEM.
The report for LMR/LME is:
Approximately 90% coverage. There are a few rogue access points so connection reliabiliy may be negatively impacted until the conflicting access points can be removedREL:
An access point has been installed in REL to provide coverage for the conference rooms: REL 109/110
There are some significant limitations with wireless. Wireless is not recommend as a replacement for hard wired links for desktop computers. It's designed for portable computers. Hard wired links are dedicated 100 Mb/s links whereas wireless links have a variable speed depending how far away from the access point you are. The target is for 6 Mb/s to most places in the building and that's shared among all the wireless users. So, it could be much slower. Not all areas of the building will be covered by wireless. Our older buildings are problematic because of their non-modular design (lots of steel reinforced concrete limits the penetration of the signal.) Their primary focus will be common areas and classrooms, not offices.
Linux systems with shared users and home directories don't work properly on a wireless connection because the wireless VPN breaks NIS and NFS.
Click here for more information on UNR wireless.
Last updated: Fri Sep 3 10:37:56 PDT 2004