[tech] Wireless in UniSFA

[Brad Peczka]

Is there a reason why UCC isn't considering something like the Ubiquiti UniFi (http://www.ubnt.com/unifi) for this, and the rest of the UCC wireless, instead of continuing to buy router/WAP units?

Surely the administration benefits alone would make it worthy of consideration!

Regards,
-Brad.

On 21 May 2013 16:41, Mitchell Pomery <bob_george33 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>From my testing in Unisfa, I could pick up UCC-Public fine. The idea behind this is to provide access to UCC wireless only, in Unisfa.

[BG3]

> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:08:36 +0800
> From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> To: bob_george33 at hotmail.com
> CC: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au

> Subject: Re: [tech] Wireless in UniSFA
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2013, Mitchell Pomery wrote:
> > 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>
> 
> That seems reasonable, for $55. The only difference between this and the 
> $100+ DIR-825 that we have in UCC is that the D-Link supports both 2.4 GHz 
> and 5 GHz channels.
> 
> Presumably we would have both the UCC and UCC-Public SSIDs available. It 
> is worth noting that in UCC we actually have two access points already - 
> coromandel (DIR-825) and clearwing, an older WRT54GL. The UCC and 
> UCC-Public SSIDs are separated over these two APs respectively, which 
> means they can both have the full bandwidth available on their own 
> channels. This would not happen in UniSFA if both SSIDs are available from 
> the new AP.
> 
> I see OpenWRT have just released a new version which (of course) has a new 
> way of configuring the network.
> 
> David Adam
> UCC Wheel Member
> zanchey@