Cisco Aironet 1240AG WPA/WPA2?

Hi

I have a Cisco Aironet 1240AG which we were planning on using for our
wireless network. According to the specs, it should be capable of WPA2,
but on the web interface, only WPA is marked.

Does anyone know why? It was only purchased a few months ago.

Thanks!



smokejo@googlemail.com

On 21 Nov 2006 11:13:52 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

~ Hi
~
~ I have a Cisco Aironet 1240AG which we were planning on using for our
~ wireless network. According to the specs, it should be capable of WPA2,
~ but on the web interface, only WPA is marked.
~
~ Does anyone know why? It was only purchased a few months ago.
~
~ Thanks!

The AP1240AG series AP supports both WPA1 (TKIP) and WPA2 (AES-CCM), with
both PSK and EAP authentication. Here is an example of configuring WPA2
on it:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk72...8054339e.shtml

Regards,

Aaron

Hi,
I'm deploying a Wireless Network in a newly built Hotel. Each floor has
26 rooms and all the walls are 6inches of cast concrete
I'm considering using a Cisco Aironet 1240AG on each floor in
combination with an amplifier and External Antennae from
www.hyperlinktech.com.
Do any of you have prior experience with such a deployment and do you
have any advice/suggestions? Would really appreciate it?
Thanks in advance

On 22 Nov 2006 00:54:49 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

~ Hi,
~ I'm deploying a Wireless Network in a newly built Hotel. Each floor has
~ 26 rooms and all the walls are 6inches of cast concrete
~ I'm considering using a Cisco Aironet 1240AG on each floor in
~ combination with an amplifier and External Antennae from
~ www.hyperlinktech.com.
~ Do any of you have prior experience with such a deployment and do you
~ have any advice/suggestions? Would really appreciate it?
~ Thanks in advance

Probably the only way to make this work, with just one AP per floor, would
be to use leaky coax for your antenna ... snake the leaky coax above all
the rooms. This would not be Cisco TAC supported, RF-wise (we only support
Cisco brand antennas), but it might work.

We would prefer that you mount an AP above each room

Cheers,

Aaron

"Aaron Leonard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 22 Nov 2006 00:54:49 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> ~ Hi,
> ~ I'm deploying a Wireless Network in a newly built Hotel. Each floor has
> ~ 26 rooms and all the walls are 6inches of cast concrete
> ~ I'm considering using a Cisco Aironet 1240AG on each floor in
> ~ combination with an amplifier and External Antennae from
> ~ www.hyperlinktech.com.
> ~ Do any of you have prior experience with such a deployment and do you
> ~ have any advice/suggestions? Would really appreciate it?
> ~ Thanks in advance
>
> Probably the only way to make this work, with just one AP per floor, would
> be to use leaky coax for your antenna ... snake the leaky coax above all
> the rooms. This would not be Cisco TAC supported, RF-wise (we only
support
> Cisco brand antennas), but it might work.
>
> We would prefer that you mount an AP above each room

Your idea of the leaky cable is sound, but one needs to remember that this
solution
also comes at the cost of the leaky cable being kind of lossy, hence more
power will need to be transmitted. In the cellular world we use
bidirectional amps for this purpose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aaron