We have a hybrid of what you have all been discussing. We have one very large building that houses classes for enrolled students, but we also do contract training for professional development and community education classes - most of those classes are located in one specific area of the building.
We did have open wireless with a captive portal that came up and asked you to agree to our AUP for everyone to access the WAP. We had a problem with a few people coming in that weren't students and who were connecting to our WAP and doing torrent streams (or something) and we were (daily) having to block two or three different MAC addresses. What we have done is set up a captive portal for students and staff who want to use wireless in the main part of the building that requires them to log in with their userid and password. Those people then get (practically) unlimited bandwidth. If there is someone who needs to use the WAP in the main part of the building who is not a student or staff member, they can request a "one-day pass" username and password that restricts the amount of bandwidth they can use and has a download limit. In the part of the building that does the training, it is still set up to be open wireless with the captive portal, but we have restricted bandwidth and downloads to what we think is reasonable for the people who would be coming in for training and such to use. If they need more bandwidth (for streaming video or something), then they are probably already using our classroom equipment instead of their laptops anyway. We just started this hybrid model this week. So far, we've had no complaints except from one of the people who liked to come in and stream/download torrents. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of JimHays Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:47 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Public Wireless access policy If you find that someone is abusing the service put the MAC address in the WAP and block it. (We have done that to a few laptops over the years.) Michael Bendorf wrote: > What about purely public. Sounds like Zobel does not let strangers on > during ball games, how about the rest of you? What about the neighbors > that live across the street or next door? > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
