[tech] Wireless in UniSFA

[Mitchell Pomery]

I approached Unisfa during their committee meeting, and they as a club are willing to pay for 50% of the gear to provide them with better internet access. The plan is to put an access point in Unisfa where DeepThought is plugged in, and using some magical VLANs, have deep thought plugged into the access point.I am suggesting we use something like this:
http://www.austin.net.au/networking/modem-routers/tp-link-300m-ultimate-wireless-n-gigabit-rout.html> [SAS] : Investigate UniSFA wifi
> - Unisfa wants an access point to the UCC wi-fi in their clubroom
> - Pricing for Unisfa and UCC discussed, 50% mostly agreed upon
> - [RNZ]: unless a member wants to donate it all
> - [BG3] to approach Unisfa regarding purchase of the access point
[BG3]

From: bob_george33 at hotmail.com
To: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:17:51 +0800
Subject: Re: [tech] Wireless in UniSFA







Went into Unisfa just then and here is what I saw:
-90dB to -65dB as a signal. It sat stable around -90dB and only occasionally hit the better signal.When wireless dropped, it took about a minute to reconnect, when I got it to start reconnecting.The wireless link speed was only 5Mbps. When I eventually got speedtest to load, the results confirmed this.A ping test to Google's DNS server had about a 10% packet loss, and the pings where nowhere near stable.
For comparison, from the bottom stair to the loft on the western side of the building, wireless signal was sitting stable around -75dB.
I moved the wireless antennas so that they would both be covering Cameron Hall, but it did not improve the wireless signal in Unisfa.
We can look at putting an access point in Unisfa and setting it up there, or finding something more powerful that will get signal through that wall.
Also Note: I was looking at both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels. UCC-Public seems to have decent signal in Unisfa too.
[BG3]
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 23:11:35 +0800
> From: samuel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> To: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [tech] Wireless in UniSFA
> 
> I have heard that there are many black spots in UniSFA regarding the 
> wireless but not much other than that, [BG3] and I will take the plunge 
> into the darkness tomorrow to find out exactly what the situation is.
> 
> [SAS]
> 
> On Tue, 14 May 2013, Matt Didcoe wrote:
> 
> > Apparently a request has come in for 'decent'[1] wireless coverage in
> > UniSFA.
> > I would have thought given the construction of the building that we'd be
> > getting signal in there already so it seems a bit odd (but I don't dare set
> > foot in UniSFA to actually check - can anyone comment reliably on this one?)
> > 
> > If there's not actually signal in there, what are peoples thoughts on
> > improving it? If we do, we want the ability to cover the same features as
> > present:
> > 
> >  - 802.1x
> >  - Support for VLANs
> >  - Other things I've forgotten probably :P
> > 
> > Realise this isn't a lot of detail, hopefully [SAS] can chime in with more!
> > Apparently there's some money though if we do want to address the issue.
> > 
> > [MRD]
> > 
> > [1] Define: decent [2]
> > [2] No really, what the fuck is decent, streaming HD video, gaming on your
> > laptop with no lag, downloading MLP?
> > 
> >

 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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