[LUGSB] How to fix wireless reliability problems on campus

[Gaurav Menghani]

It seems there was a problem with the wireless network equipment and
software. They have supposedly fixed it.

Source being a mail that I received:

"To Campus Resident Students:
I write to update you on recent network performance issues and our
efforts to resolve them over the past several evenings. As you have
likely experienced, the wireless network in the residence halls (e.g.
WolfieNet-Secure) was significantly underperforming over the last
several days. Beginning this past Monday, my staff and engineers from
our wireless network vendor worked to identify the cause of the
performance issues and remediate them.
Last evening and into this morning, we upgraded various network
components and most importantly, key network software. The needed
changes had us apply software patches to address bugs in the wireless
system software that have disrupted wireless network performance
during peak demand periods in the residence halls at Stony Brook as
well as other colleges and universities around the country.
We believe we have taken the steps necessary to correct deficiencies
in our wireless network. We sincerely apologize for the disruption. We
will continue to monitor the network to ensure the changes we have
made address the wireless performance issues.
In the meantime, if you experience network performance issues, please
continue to report them to Client Support at (631) 632-9800. Thank
you.
Chris Kielt
Chief Information Officer
Stony Brook University "

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Ahmed Hassan <ahmed at linuxism.com> wrote:
> Hmm, how it's set by default and you cannot set it manually?
>
> On Sep 14, 2011 12:09 PM, "Richard Yao" <ryao at cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Tony,
>
> They help me. Is wireless working for you with them set to off or are
> they set to auto for you by default?
>
> Would you share the output of the following commands on your system?
>
> iwconfig
>
> cat /etc/lsb-release
> lspci -n
> uname -srvmpio
>
> Yours truly,
> Richard Yao
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Tony Biondo <tonyb at tonybox.net> wrote:
>> Every reference to these...
>
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Gaurav Menghani