I've been seeing the same issues in the Public Safety and the Henry Center for the last few weeks. In my case, the connection drops for about 30 - 60 seconds (long enough for my VPN or other connections to timeout), and then it picks back up. I don't think I've been loosing my IP address, but I do know that the interface looses its connection to the WAP. This has happened on both of my laptops (Apple and Dell) and my smartphone (Android).

-Nick

From: Aldrich, Dakharai [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 6:32 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] MSUNet problems in 271 Bessey

Al:

We’ve had the EXACT same problem over in Physical Plant for a while. If everything I’ve heard is correct, and works the way I understand it to, our issue was that there were too many access points in a close proximity, all set to blast signal at 100%, on the same channel.

I’m not sure that will be your issue, but it’s a place for them to start.

-dak

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Dak Aldrich

Michigan State University

Physical Plant Division Support

1147 Chestnut Road, Room 1
East Lansing, MI 48824

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517-432-0239

From: Al Puzzuoli [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] MSUNet problems in 271 Bessey

I have been noticing intermittent issues with MSUNet, specifically in Bessey hall. Perhaps the below will be of help to someone.

Today, I was at a meeting in 271 Bessey. Initially, the wireless worked, but I noticed several times within a 2 hour span that I had lost my internet connection. When I checked status of the connection, it showed limited or no connectivity. Disconnecting and reconnecting would solve things for a while but eventually, the limited or no connectivity condition would return.Here are two ipconfigs, one from when things were working, and another from after they stopped. Basically, it looks like I was initially getting an IPV4 address, but losing it after a while and falling back to an autoconfiguration address.

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection* 11:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d9ce:37bd:787:815c%12

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 35.13.199.71

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.248.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 35.13.192.1

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Tunnel adapter 6TO4 Adapter:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:2309:7683::2309:7683

IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:230d:c747::230d:c747

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 2002:c058:6301::c058:6301

Tunnel adapter isatap.{926740A8-3C0F-4E3B-B0C5-30C73997B61A}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Tunnel adapter isatap.{7905DFE9-FA67-4DEC-A1A3-92FE5411FEB2}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e76:3809:3dd5:dcf2:38b8

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::3809:3dd5:dcf2:38b8%15

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Tunnel adapter isatap.{E558214F-B06A-43A9-8CCD-2DD787649BDA}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Tunnel adapter isatap.{CCE354E8-F0F0-4133-BA4C-F19F4E763D03}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :