Wireless Routers on University Campus?

[reversal]

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.

[Tony]

any off-the-shelf router running 802.11g? You get even better throughput with 802.11n.

[Vermette]

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.

[jernst]

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.

[octopi]

Brock University also uses Aruba access points.