Tech Forum

I'm a stake technology specialist, and I'm receiving requests from my stake to keep the Liahona wifi on 24/7. Currently, we effectively shut off Liahona on Sundays for broadcasts, because when wifi is turned on we don't have enough bandwidth for broadcasts. Turning off wifi then defeats the purpose of having wifi throughout the building...

I chatted with my stake president about this. We're looking to purchase new throttling hardware to make it work. But I'm not sure what kind of hardware to get or if anyone has a better fix. So I'm asking here.

Unfortunately I wish I could use a church network manager tool at cnm.churchofjesuschrist.org, but that only lets me turn wifi on and off once on a day. We have it scheduled on Sunday at midnight and off Sunday at 8:30 AM before broadcasts begin, and Liahona just stays off until Monday at 12 AM. I could go in throughout my stake and manually toggle it eleven more times that day, but that's just too much work on a Sunday.

The dream is I just buy some box that 1) Lets me easy flip a physical/virtual switch when we start and stop broadcasts to throttle bandwidth, and 2) During its "on" mode, my broadcasting laptop's MAC address gets about 3.5mb of dedicated bandwidth for broadcasts and the building gets whats left. I would then stick this hardware box right after each building's Xfinity cable modem.

Any ideas or suggestions here?

I’m also a an STS in my Stake. I’m not sure what you are overlooking, but there is the option to manage the SSID’s in CNM under the Wireless section. The option is in blue lettering labelled Manage SSID. The option allows you to select either Liahona or Lehi.
No need to buy any additional hardware as you can schedule the exact times to suit.

On rereading your post, I’m assuming you are aware that you could utilise the Lehi SSID for the broadcast, whilst turning the Liahona SSID off during the broadcast periods. Lehi is only for use by leaders and any password shouldn’t be made available to the general membership.

The church has never guaranteed that the WiFi would be available and consistent, especially on a Sunday. Teachers should always, where possible, download any videos etc beforehand.

Yes, the manage SSIDs feature is limited. I need either some bandwidth throttling mechanism or some better scheduling mechanism.

The church has never guaranteed that the WiFi would be available and consistent, especially on a Sunday. Teachers should always, where possible, download any videos etc beforehand

I know and sunday school presidencies know, but many teachers just don't. It'd be easier for all involved if they just had Liahona on Sundays. Right now the stakes get zero wifi on Sundays (outside of Lehi) because of broadcasts.