ITU's Wireless LAN Facilities for Delegates

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ITU's Wireless LAN Facilities for Delegates

ITU has installed IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LANs in its headquarters’ conference rooms and in CICG conference rooms. In big meeting rooms we encourage participants to use 802.11a mode because it offers many channels resulting in higher bandwidth per user. The 802.11b/g channels do not offer much bandwidth per user, especially when 802.11b clients are used – hence the use of 802.11b cards is discouraged and 802.11b associations have to be turned off in big meetings so that 802.11g users can work productively.

THUS, USERS/DELEGATES ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO COME WITH WIRELESS SYSTEMS THAT USE THE 802.11a FREQUENCIES AND USE THE 802.11a CHANNELS IN ITU AND CICG MEETING ROOMS.

The wireless network is available in the following locations:

La Tour Building: Salle A, B, C, D and Salle des Pas Perdue (practically the whole area of SS2) and Salle T101, T103.
Montbrillant Building: Cybercafe area on the 2nd floor; 1st floor (covering all the rooms H1, H2, K1, K2, M1, M2, L1 and L2).
Varembe Building: TIES helpdesk area, V29, V49, Cafeteria and Salle E, Salle F.
CICG: Salle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 16, 17, 18 and the complete cyber café area in Level -1, one part of Level 2 offices, Entrance area

When buying a new card, please ensure it is a "Wi-Fi compatible 802.11a/b/g wireless card with 128-bit encryption" (although encryption is not used at the moment in ITU). PLEASE BUY WIRELESS CARDS OR LAPTOPS THAT SUPPORT 802.11a CHANNELS. Please check that your card’s model number is mentioned at http://www.wi-fi.com before you buy it.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR LAPTOP IS IN INFRASTRUCTURE MODE OF WIRELESS OPERATION AND NOT IN AD-HOC (OR PEER-TO-PEER) MODE.

The user should know how to disable ad-hoc mode. Ad-hoc mode may be blocked within ITU and CICG premises.

Note that delegates may borrow 802.11a/b/g wireless cards at the Tower and Montbrillant receptions