CDT Technology Department Network Points

[gwendes]

The tech department would like to use laptops on wired connections. How do you solve the problem of needing to use the work desks for cutting/drilling, and computers?

 

Suspended from the ceiling? Popping up from the middle? Something else?

[FN-GM]

This is how it's done here.

[mavhc]

Fix your wifi so they don't want that?

[gwendes]

This is how it's done here.

 

Thanks! What are these called? Manufacturer?

[gwendes]

Fix your wifi so they don't want that?

 

Yeah, there are three APs that support 50 clients each. There aren't faults with them, but real world is much more flaky than it should be. Blame big machines/wireless hotspots/kids moving around/turning off wifi etc (a spectrum analyser would go crazy in any CDT department!) We're due to upgrade at Easter but the staff have just lost faith in it, and there isn't a fix we can apply as it's all up and running.

 

Yes, firmware/drivers are as up to date as they can be. APs are end of life.

[mavhc]

Out of interest, what APs?

[gwendes]

Out of interest, what APs?

 

2X Xirrus XN4 and an XN8

[FN-GM]

Sorry I thought you meant power. We use WIFI for laptops but occasionally these are used if they are used heavily during the day and the battery is dead.