BWMerlin

When you say restart are you talking about restarting the client or the access point? Does this issue happen regardless of security type? i.e. if the client authenticates via 802.1x and cannot connect can it connect via WPA-PSK?

From all the reading and advice I have gotten PoE speakers just don't seem financially viable/sensible, I really love the idea of them and the business manager seems dead set on them but I just can't see them at a price point that the business manager will actually want to pay for them. The vast majority of our switches are already PoE and run the wireless AP's so that isn't so much of an issue although there are some none PoE switches (I haven't had a chance to do a proper head count of all network devices) and some that are only PoE and not PoE+. Yep, lots of networking cable already existing. I have shown the business manager the UniFi system (found an older thread on here with them mentioned) and they were a little interested in it but not super keen to replace our existing Meraki wireless AP's but then mentioned at his previous work they replaced all the switches with UniFi switches as they were a fraction of the cost of higher tier brands (and reportedly there are no issues with them). Not sure if I should be worried about that, I have really enjoyed working on the HP switches here. Audio is not my strong point so I don't know much about what numbers mean watt but it seems that the higher the wattage the more power. I don't know how ohms (resistance that much I know) factors into it and dB is loudness??. Anyway will look into it. Everyone from the installer to people on the net suggest a hybrid solution using a Barix (or similar that us just the brand I have worked with at my previous job and what is being recommended/pushed here) SIP converter into a traditional amp with speaker chained off that using standard speaker wire is the way to go. I am just fact hunting and ultimately I can only relay my findings to the business manager and I will get no/very little say in what actually happens.

Expensive and low wattage. I did find a PoE amp that looked to be perfect but when I did a quick price check on Amazon it came back as ~$500 which is just too much. The other place I have looked is Alibaba and there are some promising looking speakers but not sure how I feel about the quality control etc.

Thanks, the website says that it is just under 13 watts of power. For such a noisy environment does it work well? Are staff and students able to hear announcements? We have been recommended 30 watt speakers for our larger/noisier areas so wanted to know if something that is half the wattage is enough.

I did see this mentioned in another thread and the business manager seemed interested in it but we do have a Meraki wireless network so might be a bit of a hard sell to dump the Meraki for the UniFi.

I was just wondering if anyone had come across reasonably priced PoE speakers that could be used for a college PA/evac/bell system? We currently have nothing other than bells for evac/lockdown/period change and the business manager would like a PoE speaker solution to try and save costs from running audio cabling and buying amps etc. Anyone have any suggestions? I am based in Australia so realise that not all suggestions I maybe able to get locally but if there is the right product things can always be brought over.

Thanks so much for this, we have been having this problem since rolling out Windows 7 and keep getting pestered by staff as to why it takes so long for students to logon. Disabling the Windows Mail registry key has cut down login time to about twenty seconds in my testing so I am about to use Group Policy to apply this to all our lab machines and see how that goes.