Known Wireless Problem Status
2/15/06
Date of problems Reported by Problem Description Status Date Reolution/Update
1/18/06 Remedy Poor signal quality within Minnich Hall 3rd floor.  Fluke reports an RSSI of -81dB. Open 1//20/06 Temporarily installed an AP within the comm room in 326, restoring the service to the center of the building.  During Spring Break and more permanent solution will be sought by resurveying the building.
1/12/06 Support Desk Wireless service within Culler Hall is not functioning Closed 1/13/2006 MU-WIRELESS-LITE service within Culler Hall was not working.  802.1x (encrypted service) was operational.  After hours of troubleshooting and collecting information, we discovered that the sub-interfaces within the configurations of 10 APs were missing the "bridge-group data"   This portion of the config was replaced to restore service.
12/2/05 Remedy Poor signal in room 274 Bachelor Hall Closed 12/13/2005 Poor signal was determined.  Added AP in comm room 160 to correct.  Signal strength now -52 dB.
11/18/05 Remedy Clients report loss of connectivity in/near room 80 of Pearson Hall. closed 12/13/2005 Appointment made with Larry Downes to meet in Pearson Hall.  Mark and Mike kept appointment, Larry did not.  We tested the rooms in question, (78, 82, 81, 74, 76, labs) and found no connectivity loss. (signal was never < -45dB) We stayed for approximately 20 minutes running bandwidth tests without losing connectivity.  Unable to duplicate problem.  Gave clients my contact info and asked them to call Me (Michael) when the problem returned.
11/16/05 Remedy No wireless coverage on 3rd floor of King Library closed 11/17/2005 Added another AP on 3rd floor for record keeping staff to access wireless
11/14/05 Remedy Problems in Ogden Hall with wireless service on the North end of the 3rd floor.  Signal quality low closed 11/14/2005 Added an extra Access Point in the hallway near room 235. (OGNALP299-1)   This increased the signal strength.
11/1/05 Remedy Problems in Ogden Hall with wireless service resolving DNS and redirecting to CCA. closed   Problem resolved by re-booting the Perfigo box.
11/4/05 Remedy 802.1X service in King Library not operational closed 11/4/2005 Problem resolved by downgrading code
11/1/05 Remedy Inadequate signal in Bachelor Hall Room 160 Closed 11/3/2005 Survey of the roomproved a weak signal.  New antennas installed for BACAPC199-5.  Signal quality improved.
10/4/05 Joe Simpson Inadequate wireless signal on Gaskill Hall room 245 Closed 10/20/2005 Survey of Gaskil Hall confirms low signal.  New antennas are on order to fix this problem.  New antennas received and will be installed the week of 17 October
9/30/05 Randy Mikesell Hoyt Hall, 3rd floor video conference room, inadequate wireless signal  Closed 10/17/2005 New antennas installed 
9/5/05 Stan Brown Various problems with connectivity  and wireless indicators on Windows XP systems.  All PCs are identical. Closed  10/14/2005 Discovered Perfigo configuration error.  Opened port 67 and 68 (UDP) to restore service throughout the King Library and Campus wide.  Most users were not encountering problem.  But because of the number of wireless users involved with Library service, the error was more prominent.
9/26/05 Remedy Wireless service in room 80 of Pearson Hall is not reliable with VPN. Closed 10/5/2005 Unable to duplicate problem with Pearson hall room 80.
9/22/05 Remedy Poor wireless signal on 3rd floor of Hamilton Hall. Closed 9/22/2005 Found an "unplugged" AP for HAMAPC399-2.  Re-plugged into switchport to resolve
9/21/05 Remedy Change RESNET timeout to 7 days  closed  9/26/2005 Timeout changed
9/16/05 Remedy Poor Service in Ogden Hall 3rd floor Closed 9/16/2005 Located a non-operational AP and repaired.  Service restored @ 10:30
8/15/05 Remedy 802.1X service desired in Peabody Hall and Bishop Hall Closed  9/16/2005 Service ready on 9/16/05
9/14/05 Field Svcs Low signal strength in Pearson Hall Room 153J Closed  9/20/2005 Added an extra Access Point in the hallway near room 153J.  This increased the signal strength and the clients are satisfied.
8/31/05 Remedy Loss of wireless signal in specific rooms in Elliot Hall (2nd Floor). Signal strong within the common areas. Closed  9/14/2005 Survey of entire building on 9/16 @ 10:00 proves wireless coverage is outstanding everywhere.  No further entries for this case.
8/31/05 Remedy Loss of wireless connectivity in Morris Hall.  Strong Signal, no IP addresses being handed out Closed 9/7/2005 Reconfigured edge switchports to restore.  Switchport access vlan 140 removed.  Believe this is a software bug, as that line of code is still used throughout the campus
8/31/05 Stan Brown CPA Music library connectivity problems. Closed 9/6/2005 Installed additional Access Point to 2nd Floor of CPA
8/18/05 Mike Bowling Middletown Campus intermittant problems Closed   Corrected configuration of access points on 8/18/05
8/17/05 Mike Bowling Kreger Hall intermittant problems Closed   Corrected configuration of access points on 8/17/05
7/28/05 Stan Brown (2nd hand) Wireless service in King is dial-up speed, much slower than WAM Closed   Unable to dublicate problem.  Attribute this to legacy WAM access point that was removed.
7/27/05 NOC  Intermittent drops 3rd floor of Gaskill Closed   Removed WAM radios that were still in service 
7/26/05 Stan Brown Unable to authenticate 802.1x using Tiger on a MAC.  As of 7/28, it was working Closed   Further testing does not replicate the problem.
7/21/05 Debi Allison (2nd hand) Access of Library Holdings from Harrison but not King Closed   This was corrected with MTU config change.
7/19/05 Stan Brown, Ricki Davidge Cannot connect to 802.1x in King Closed   Corrected WLSM settings in CAB hub 7/19/06
7/18/05 Ricki Davidge Cannot connect to 802.1x in RDB Closed   Corrected WLSM settings in CAB hub 7/19/05
7/15/05 Various Intermittent performance and drops with LITE service Closed   No system-wide problems have been found. Individual calls are being escelated and resolved per normal support desk processes.   Mike Bowling will continue to work directly with TSRs on these issues as appropriate.
7/8/05 Stan Brown Library WWW pages not loading properly Closed   Changed MTU settings on Library Servers 7/27
7/8/05 Dave Ensor & others Possible 802.1x problem with IT Services Standard Configuration Dell PC card Closed   Dell Lattitudes use same Centrino chip set as the Network Engineering test machines. 
6/24/05 Various Shriver Center RF service intermittent Closed   Removed remaining WAM radios 7/28/05
6/20/05 Various Robertson issues Closed   Converted building from development network to production
7/15/05 Dave Ensor , (2nd hand) LITE is considerably slower than MU-WIRELESS - 145 Kbps download for LITE and 622 Kbps for 802.1x (using numion.com tests). Open   further testing to verify.  Possibly guest access limits are not widely understood and advertised.
7/8/05 Various muohio WWW pages not loading properly Open   Need to investigate WWW server MTU configuration.  Review of Cisco workaround is being investigated.
6/10/05 Dennis Schwind 802.1x authentication does not work with MAC OS 10.3 Open   Dennis is investigating options.  Diagnostic info submitted to Apple