I have been investigating issues with our laptops whereby they would freeze and become generally unresponsive when changing area and thus changing they connected WAP. This was causing big problems for staff who teach in multiple rooms and regularly change between wired and wireless connections. We have a combination of HP ProCurve 420WW and HP
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Tag: Wireless Networking
Wireless Network Channels
I have recently been reviewing placement of the WAP’s on our network, and the channels that we use. Until very recently, we had a mix of fixed AP’s in some areas, and mobile AP’s on laptop trolleys. In short, this didn’t work well. If someone moved a mobile AP into an area where it interfered
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Time to Give Up and Go Home
I was being proactive for once and thought I would do a check of various parts of the system while I had not as many problems to fix. You know, find out what is wrong or not working as well as it should and fixing it before people complain about it. I walked around the
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802.1x User Authentication with Mandatory Profiles
Just been working on 60 new Asus Eee netbooks that we have bought for student use in the college. Mainly, testing thoroughly that the wireless was going to work flawlessly. We got everything working for ourselves using Network Policy Server, HP Procurve 420 AP’s and PEAP. Only problem – when a student logs in, the
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