Wi-Fi issues stem from outside source

It’s the same old story. Class has started, everybody needs to access the internet, but no one can. Then, you move across the room and by a miracle, there’s a signal. These types of events are common throughout Westside, but no one really knows why the Internet works this way. Well, WHS Director of Technology Dwayne Belongia has the answer.

“Aerohive, the contractor who installed the wireless, came here and reported that their initial installation of the APs [access points] had not been placed in the optimum position,” Belong said. “They came back, they did an analysis the other day, […] and what they found out is that they had too many APs in one location and they interfered with each other.”

For those that don’t know, APs are the little square objects on the ceilings in various rooms. They are used to send out the Wi-Fi signals throughout the school.

Belongia went on to explain that when the APs interfere with one another, the computers don’t know which one to connect to, so the Internet connection times out. To solve this, Aerohive decreased the number of access points and placed the remaining ones in the best positions. Tech Support doesn’t have the results of the new changes back, but Belongia is hopeful the new changes will help solve the problem.