Splitting a flat network into separate WLANS

hargi

hargi

hargi

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Im trying to get to the bottom of this.
Think there is two problems. One is we only have a 8mb connection coming in to school. --> we are trying to up the bandwidth as we regularly reach this limit and the network just goes to a crawl.

When I try to update the ipads with meraki, it takes ages and normally fails. Same if I go to the app store and try to download the apps that way ( pages update 20 mins to a hour) So I'm assuming that a more bandwidth into school would fix this?

The main problem is we have used airserver and now we are on apple TV's which the staff use to mirror the ipads to the projector. Randomy the airplay freezes then kicks the mirror off. I'm assuming this is a wifi problem as none of this traffic is leaving the school?
Both the apple TV and the ipads are connected wirelessly.
We currently have Netgear 360 N dual band AP's one per 2 classrooms roughly any ideas?

Some one has suggested its a bonjour issue and thats flooding the network.
We resolved most of these issues by segmenting our WLAN into 14 seperate "departmental" WLANs, each with an unique IP range (yet using the same WiFi controller) to reduce the number of ATVs that can see each other. The maximum we now have on any one WLAN is 14, which seems to be ok with the approx. 20 iPads that regularly connect to the same WLAN. (we've also limited the DHCP range to 65 devices to reduce the chances of flooding the networks). We're only broadcasting an individual WLAN to the area of the school where that subject it taught.
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How would I go about splitting the up wifi into separate WLAN's as reccomended in the quote above?

Thanks
 
I asked the question on Edugeek and thats where I got the quote from about the wlan.

Network we have 70pc's 2 servers 15 Apple TV's bout 200 or so iPads.
No managed switches. HP procurve 2810's and 2650's
Internet comes in at 10mb from NGFL... this is filtered offsite via a smoothwall filter all internet traffic goes through this. ( diffent ports for different filtering requirements, if no port /proxy is set it defaults to the BYOD port)

Netgear 360 N dual band AP's one per 2 classrooms
 
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Im guessing that the bandwidth coming in is affecting the updates/ app downloads.
The main problem is the Airplay dropping out from the Apple TV's this is whats putting the teachers off as they are not reliable.

As far as I'm aware dhcp is handled exclusively from our DC (2008R2)
 
OK this is where Im going to start getting confused. I like the unifi AP ( I have them in my other school with very low wifi usage and they work no bother)
If we go get some of these and put one in every class what would happen at the moment we have the 14 AP that all use the same SSID. Would you add different SSID's to split it up?
 
Yes 10mb and we are stuck with that for a few more years :( .
I have asked about and we can get 100mb from a different supplier for roughly the same costs. Its stupid as soon as a few get on it brings the whole school to a crawl.
we have tried a bit of software called airserver before and had the same issues, the AppleTV's are more reliable then that but still not up to scratch.
They mirror anything from apps, pages documents, web pages to video.
 
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