Let's Ginger-Fi it!

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…

We have a few hundred comm spaces on our campuses and the majority of those are older, which means bix. Bix/cross connect wire isn’t made for multi gig speeds needed for modern access points. The older building I’ve just finished a redesign for is completely bix in all 6 closets and our newest wiring standard…

We have never had a PSK/Guest network on Campus. There is a slightly broken system that will create temporary guest accounts for our WPA2-Enterprise network for contractors, small events and meetings, but most visiting people are expected to use eduroam. The campus fitness center has a fieldhouse that was built in the late 1970’s and…

One thing we’ve never had on any of our campuses is outdoor wireless. Last year I had the opportunity to make this happen. We chose the upper campus Quad as this is a very well used and high traffic area. There are a number a sitting areas scattered around where students study and staff take…

While visiting my sister and brother in-law, I did what any normal wi-fi person does and opened an app to check out the airspace 😊. My brother in-law has always had creative names for his personal and guest networks but this time I noticed a new SSID called blackhole. He had also been having some…

I was extremely fortunate to be able to attend the WLPC this year. This was my second time and if you have never attended, I can’t recommend it enough. WLPC has an amazing atmosphere. The people are friendly, love sharing their knowledge and really make you feel part of the wireless community. There are always…

I am very new to this. Not the Wi-Fi part, but the writing things that other people may see. I have been making a list of topics and writing them as a word document for a while now and decided it’s finally time to start. Who knows, maybe someone will read something here that helps…