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If you said router, you'd be wrong.
Typically in a setup like this you have an edge router connecting the LAN to the rest of the world with perhaps some layer 3 switches in the buildings doing some basic inter-subnet routing on campus. You would have dedicated wireless controllers with attached AP's running a lightweight image, downloading their configuration and being managed directly from these controllers.
This doesn't sound like an issue with elderly equipment to me, it sounds like a bug. But if the campus IT aren't aware of the issue, they can't actively work to resolve it. Cisco gear doesn't usually get old and die either. It typically soldiers on well into obsolescence and this goes for their wireless gear as well.
Yup! And don't they (the people that run the school/network) try to make their equipment last as long as posisble, WITHOUT upgrading to save cost?
And I am thinking of what has come into many homes: The router, with the antennae on either side of it. There, wouldn't the signal go to any wireless devices - phones, laptops, any point that needs Internet, like a wireless card in a desktop computer like I am on now, etc - and sort of "merge" with the cabled connections (that is the difference between a "switch" and a "hub," the "switch" gets its address from the incoming cable.. yes, no?) - and then put the packets through that way?
it wounds like what you are describing is that the APs are sepatrate units, akin to but not the same as those antennae, and that they then go to the main broadband/bandwith trough along with all other connections, and that there could be issues with those units themselves, and their firmware.. ?
*Assume I am still in school. I just like to engage!
If you said router, you'd be wrong.
Typically in a setup like this you have an edge router connecting the LAN to the rest of the world with perhaps some layer 3 switches in the buildings doing some basic inter-subnet routing on campus. You would have dedicated wireless controllers with attached AP's running a lightweight image, downloading their configuration and being managed directly from these controllers.
This doesn't sound like an issue with elderly equipment to me, it sounds like a bug. But if the campus IT aren't aware of the issue, they can't actively work to resolve it. Cisco gear doesn't usually get old and die either. It typically soldiers on well into obsolescence and this goes for their wireless gear as well.
Yup! And don't they (the people that run the school/network) try to make their equipment last as long as posisble, WITHOUT upgrading to save cost?
And I am thinking of what has come into many homes: The router, with the antennae on either side of it. There, wouldn't the signal go to any wireless devices - phones, laptops, any point that needs Internet, like a wireless card in a desktop computer like I am on now, etc - and sort of "merge" with the cabled connections (that is the difference between a "switch" and a "hub," the "switch" gets its address from the incoming cable.. yes, no?) - and then put the packets through that way?
it wounds like what you are describing is that the APs are sepatrate units, akin to but not the same as those antennae, and that they then go to the main broadband/bandwith trough along with all other connections, and that there could be issues with those units themselves, and their firmware.. ?
*Assume I am still in school. I just like to engage!
