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Possible Performance Issues With Long User Idle Timeout

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  • 1.  Possible Performance Issues With Long User Idle Timeout

    Posted Feb 14, 2013 04:19 PM

     We are rolling out BYOD to all of our schools and to make sure that the students don’t need to keep on re-associating to the wireless each time their device goes to sleep for a long period of time, I’ve been requested to set the User Idle Timeout to 4 hours. I’m not too keen on doing this but I need to know some possible performance issues this may cause.



  • 2.  RE: Possible Performance Issues With Long User Idle Timeout
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    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Feb 14, 2013 04:29 PM

    Besides that your users will still show up 4 hours after they are already gone, nothing.. ;)

     

    Switch to 802.1x for those clients and your logout issues are averted.



  • 3.  RE: Possible Performance Issues With Long User Idle Timeout

    Posted Feb 15, 2013 07:39 AM

    Thanks Colin,

     

    On our internal network we have 802.1x but the powers that be have decided that BYOD will be a free for all.

     

     I can't believe how many educated people who use Wi-Fi at McDonald's, Starbucks and Conference Centers etc... cannot remember to click on a browser in their smartphones and tablets at the schools... I bet the students wouldn't have an issue with it. LOL