Computer Science Canada Wireless Routers on University Campus? |
| Author: | reversal [ Thu May 14, 2009 5:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Wireless Routers on University Campus? |
What brand of Wireless Routers are used on University/College Campuses? I'm very interested, I was at Georgian College up in Barrie, the download speed on wifi was a nice 2MB/s downloading a file. My wireless router, pc to pc wireless transfer does 600KB/s, not the greatest with Wireless LAN in my opinion. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu May 14, 2009 5:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Wireless Routers on University Campus? |
any off-the-shelf router running 802.11g? You get even better throughput with 802.11n. |
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| Author: | Vermette [ Thu May 14, 2009 5:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wireless Routers on University Campus? |
I spent a co-op term working for the networking group at my University's (Windsor) IT department in 2006, and got to help build the school's +1100AP wireless network. All the gear was Aruba. |
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| Author: | jernst [ Thu May 14, 2009 8:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wireless Routers on University Campus? |
Depends on the school, and sometimes whether they have wireless research going on. For example at Guelph we are starting a new wireless lab and getting a bunch of test equipment from a bunch of companies that make "industrial" mesh routers. A school like MIT that has a long established research group uses their research equipment in such a way that people around that campus are able to connect to the internet though it. See MIT Roofnet: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/doku.php For my undergrad I was at WLU and it looked like there routers were just normal linksys access points, but that was a few years ago and it may be different now. |
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| Author: | octopi [ Thu May 14, 2009 9:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wireless Routers on University Campus? |
Brock University also uses Aruba access points. |
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