Wifi reconfiguration dilemma

[michellemannix]

Hi everyone, my first post on this, and asking for your help and advice.

In my school we were with a private company for broadband and now we want to change back to NCTE connection.

We have Uni-fi access points in all the classrooms which were configured by the private company and we would like to reconfigure the access points to the NCTE connection.

We had three tier access (teacher/student) on our previous connection, is it possible to set this up again?

We have Gateway, IP address range available if needed. We also have the uni-fy software to work with if possible.

Can anyone recommend someone who can help us to bridge from NCTE to internal Wi-Fi??

Thanks for all suggestions help and advice!

Michelle

[G P Ashe]

The NCTE router/gateway by default will allocate NCTE assigned public IP addresses (generally start with 87.x.x.x)

Is your NCTE connection alive?

Are you just moving wifi back to NCTE or are there wired desktops/printers too?

The really nice thing about Unifi is that once you start up the controller software on the new connection it should then automatically detect the APs - you may need to re-adopt them and it should be pretty simple. In effect all you are doing is changing the underlying numbers (IP stuff). The SSIDs etc that you have in place will be unaffected.

-- gpa

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[michellemannix]

We have a network printer/copier to link also.

Yes the NCTE connection is alive however it is not working in all the uni-fi access points and signal is not consistent.

[G P Ashe]

Signal not being consistent is a red-herring.

Can you log into the Uni-Fi controller and see that all the APs are listed and Connected (see below)?

I am assuming that you do not have any VLANs in place. All the APs should have a consistent IP address. 

Make sure that you only have 1 DHCP server on the network - if you are using the NCTE broadband then this should act as DHCP (again I am assuming there is not a dedicated server doing DHCP/DNS on-site).

Generally a copier/printer (where you are not printing via print server) should have a fixed IP. It depends how many clients need to connect to it as to what the best approach is. I would tend to leave the printer aside for now though.

Sorry the advice is so general but there are multiple factors to consider in a situation like you describe.

-- gpa