Information Technology Services

Wi-Fi Network Connectivity Issues – Eduroam and MASON-SECURE

Outage category: Wireless Network

Location: All Campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Customers were contacting the Support Center while Mason Engineers had noticed the same issues as the users.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The DHCP server giving out IP’s for the eduroam wifi was running out of IP’s, the IP-scope had to be bigger to accommodate more users!!

Resolution

Enterprise Infrastructure Services created a bigger IP-scope for eduroam wifi.

Prevention

Enterprise Infrastructure Services set the new the DHCP pool to big enough to accommodate all the users on all 3 campuses using eduroam wifi.