The school's hot spot is on their own LAN, not my problem. There are many functions other than church services, typically in the fellowship hall (church meetings, parties, weddings/funerals, men/women/senior groups, etc.) where folks want their cell phones to work. If they don't connect to the Wi-Fi those cell phone batteries go down fast as the phones try to ping a tower transmitting at max power.
I could add a password but then would need tell everyone. I already configured OpenDNS but still looking for something better. I plan to install a Unifi Security Gateway so I'm looking for a way to use that. There are many consumer routers that could be adapted and security appliances (without routing), like Circle. Still looking. > -----Original Message----- > From: Allan Streib via Mercedes > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Internet filtering > > Ask the school what they do. > > Ideally the school hot spot will be on the school network via a VPN. > > As far as accessing the passwordless guest network, you have that problem > regardless. I'd suggest putting a password on it, or maybe setting up a > captive > portal like at a hotel. Depends how much you really want to manage it. > > Anyway, who is using their cell phone during church? > > > Scott Ritchey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > > > Our church LAN has a “guest” SSID that does not require a password. This > guest SSID is very helpful for cell phones because the aluminum siding blocks > regular cell signals. So far, this was not a problem because we had few > “outsiders.” Our ISP provider (Time-Warner/Spectrum) provides an ARRIS > DG1670a modem/router, which does not appear to have any useful “parental > controls.” > > > > Soon we will be a “hot spot” where school children can come to our parking > lot to download school materials (if they don’t have high-speed internet at > home). The school system provides the hot spot equipment but visitors will > also see our church Wi-Fi on their devices. > > > > I want to avoid the situation where school kids (or others) access > inappropriate sites, particularly on the church LAN. OpenDNS offers some > filtering but only for “new” DNS requests and it doesn’t block anonymizers > (like Tor). > > > > I know there is much computer expertise on this site so I thought I’d ask > > for > recommendations. > > > > Cheers, Scott > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
