Let's Ginger-Fi it!

I took a bit of a break after receiving the incredible news that my CWNE application had been approved. I was tired and the Birthday and Holiday season had begun at my house. I have a few big and small projects I’m working on that I’ll write about as they happen, but for now I…

In this essay I will describe how I designed, terminated all data lines for, and moved or installed every AP in a 90,000 sq. ft. building redesign. Introduction: One of the largest and oldest buildings on campus, the Henry Hicks, is a four story, 90,000 square foot stone and concrete focal point. It houses administration…

In this essay I will describe how I used frame analysis to diagnose a RADIUS Certificate issue. Introduction: Proving “it’s not the wireless” seems to be a reoccurring theme I hear from other wireless people. Since to a lot of the users the wireless is the “network” it comes up quite often. Sometimes you even…

A lesson in having accurate floor plans and the attenuation capabilities of HVAC ducting. The Problem: While using the etherscope to test a wall plate, I did what I usually do; checked for wireless “rogues” in the area. There had been some complaints trickle into me about issues in the theatres but no official tickets.…

The way our teams have always worked is we have the data networking side and then the CORE networking side. The wireless controller has historically been managed by the CORE team. With the new SDN network being created comes a plan where we are all being merged into on official NOC with new roles and…

aka the one I didn’t submit 😉 We currently have over 21,000 students, 6,000 faculty and staff, and 130 buildings across our different campuses. These buildings range from 2 story houses to 15 story towers and everything in between. Just before covid lockdown, a new network plan outlining a switch from Aruba wireless & Cisco…

We have over 130 buildings across our campuses. A lot of them have never had their wireless design assessed and updated (yet haha). A few weeks ago, someone reached out from a building we had never received a complaint from and I was very surprised at what I found. The majority of staff in the…

I know lots of people are probably well aware of these but I figure it may help someone one of these days 🙂 Switch commands may not be the first thing you think of for wireless troubleshooting but they are usually a great first step, depending on the situation. The good old show interface status…

I’ll start off with, this thing is pretty amazing! I know the title calls out the fact that I’ve never had the opportunity to use a wireless sensor before, but I don’t think that’s why it seems so great. The Wyebot device I am testing is part of a vendor agnostic, plug-and-play, overlay sensor platform.…

Not that it was made in Canada but that it is super polite in how it works. I was speaking to a friend of mine who is a network admin. Their wireless person left the company, and they received a ticket from a rural site complaining of their wireless. He told me he had explained…