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I work for a school and have recently bought smoothwall. Smoothwall has asked me to setup a radius server to send accounting packets for all the laptops which students are bringing to the school. I am very new to this kind of setup and was looking for some help. So far I have configured NPS on windows 2008. The radius system is registered on AD and have added all the AP's I am struggling at one point where it is asking to install the certificate. Now we have one of the Domain controller which is acting as certificate authority and has a valid Geotrust certificate, which is again present on raidus server but when i configure "Configure an Authentication Method " it is not allowing me to configure it is saying that the certificate is not present. Can i not use the certificate from my existing domain controller by simply importing it to NPS certificate store? I have attached the screen shot of the error Thanks Arpit

Hi guys, Got a bit of a weird one here over the last week or so. Our iPads are no longer connecting to the wireless network, which is a standard 64 bit WEP encryption key (I know we shouldn't be using WEP, but it's what I have inherited, we're in the process of moving over to new wireless infrastructure). The error message we're getting is, as in the title, 'unable to join network (SSID)'. What I have found out is that we can get them connected on an access point which uses WPA2 - I'm just unsure why they have stopped working. Yes, the simple answer would be to just get the new APs up and running, but that isn't for a couple of weeks yet. Our iPads are on iOS5 currently if that is any help. All Windows based machines are working off the WEP encryption fine.

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Our school is moving toward Apple tech (from Windows) and I would like, as far as possible, to reduce the number of different technologies that have to interact. So I'm keen to embrace Apple everywhere as far as it will go. We have fibre backbone across the campus, and I want to create a wireless network capable of handling up to 500 iPads, across 200 locations (boarding houses, classrooms, common areas etc). I'm aware that everyone will chip in with their favourite network technology, but I can't find anyone who's used Apple Airport Extremes on any large scale. There may be good reasons for that, which I'd like to hear about. The final network I want to move to is: A minimal windows-based wired network for admin staff, a small component of wired macbooks and iMacs, and the majority on Apple ipads, using wireless. Different vendors happily tout the brilliance of their products, and the weaknesses of the competition. I'm hoping someone out there has tried Apple Airport Extremes in the real world and can give me some advice from their experience. 1. Does Apple Airport scale in any way, or is it, like the rest of Apple, for home use in small networks? 2. I want to avoid the complexity of having controllers, vlans, etc. 3. We have a mac mini server, which I've been told is adequate to manage 500 iPads. Would it also cope with running RADIUS, 200-odd APs etc? 4. Will the wireless networks scale to running Apple TV? (I'm aware of the chatty nature of bonjour, but would hope that Apple tech on an Apple network would work. Unfortunately, I haven't had a good experience trying to get answers from Apple themselves. They haven't got a clue about the demands of education on IT Infrastructure.

Hi does anyone use unifi wireless across their whole campus we currently have 20 or so devices but I want to triple that to provide whole-class connectivity for Chromebooks but only if it will scale up and work well? thanks in advance Pablo

Hi, We are looking at moving to Google Chromebooks for pupils and using Google Classroom and G-Suite. Has anyone had experience of a large deployment or Chromebooks and the impact on Broadband connectivity. We have recently upgraded our wireless and we are now using Unify UAP-AC-Pro and they seem to be performing great. We are also looking at moving some of the staff shared areas up to Google Team drives to allow access at home. Thanks Chris

Hi there, I'm looking at upgrading our school's wireless infrastructure and I'm torn between Ruckus and Ubiquiti Unifi Pro's for our install. I'm wondering if there are any schools in Cornwall using Ubiquiti's Unifi products that I could come and see. I've seen loads of demo's of Ruckus kit but as yet haven't found a Ubiquiti install:( Any offers gratefully received

My wife is a high school teacher in a district in which each student is issued a MacBook Air laptop. The school has wi-fi throughout, but the signal in my wife's classroom is chronically weak. IT folks for the district have been either unwilling or unable to solve the weak signal problem. There is a hardwire connection (Ethernet) in my wife's classroom and I would like to connect a wireless router to that so the students can have Internet access in the classroom. Can someone suggest a good, reliable router for this purpose? The maximum number of students in the classroom at one time is 35, and usually 20-25.

Hi I'm in the process of looking to replace our schools aging Netgear wireless kit and looking for something more up to date (N,AC) and allows more devices per AP. What type of kit do you use or recommend? Thanks in advance.