A few years ago I had a request to design a public WiFi hotspot portal for the patients and visitors within our five major facilities. I did a fair amount of research and found a number of interesting commercial and open-source solutions. … [Continue reading]
WS5100 v1.x to v2.1 Upgrade
The purpose of this post is to outline how to upgrade a Symbol 5x00 Wireless LAN switch. In the example provided we will upgrade a switch running v1.4.3.0-R12 to v2.1.1. This upgrade is a major upgrade in that it literally replaces the core operating … [Continue reading]
WS5100 v1.x,v2.x Standby Switch
Motorola's WS5000/WS5100 Wireless LAN Switches (v1.x,2.x software) allow you to provision a standby backup switch that would take over for the primary if some problem affected the primary Wireless LAN switch. This is a an active/passive solution, the … [Continue reading]
Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR)
We have quite a few Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500s deployed throughout our organization. There's a great new benefit in using the new hardware to help us test the cable plant remotely.Here’s the text from the Nortel manual; Testing cables … [Continue reading]
WS5100 v3.x Getting Started
The following document is provided as a basic guide on how to configure the Motorola WS5100 Wireless LAN Switch with release 3.x software. You should use the initial username of “cli” at the login prompt. At the username/password prompts you should … [Continue reading]