Let's Ginger-Fi it!

Last week I finally did the thing I’ve been avoiding for years by presenting at a wireless event. Did I pick a smaller one? Yes. Did I pick this smaller one because it was not recorded? Also yes haha. I submitted and was chosen to speak at the 2025 Wi-Co event in Montreal. For those…

After a break came the presentations by Nile. This will again not cover everything that was said, just the bits that stood out to me. All of the videos can be found at https://techfieldday.com/appearance/nile-presents-at-mobility-field-day-12/ I only had a small bit of knowledge about Nile before this moment. I knew they offered network as a service…

So, it’s been a very busy few months with us deciding to move away from the new cisco network planned, and deciding to keep and upgrade our current Aruba wireless network. I will get back to blogging soon, including some of the things learned during the fun of the last few months haha. Here is…

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…