I echo what others have said. Having to go in and wire/re-wire an exiting dorm is an extremely time-consuming process. We've provided campus-wide wireless access including our dorms since the summer of 2000. We provide laptops to all students so we witnessed our wired connections drop from approximately 20% of the student body to only dozens of wired connections. We initially questioned if providing port-per-pillow access was necessary in dorms built since then. We're glad we have. We still have students that bring their own personal server farm with them and have seen a dramatic upswing in networked gaming consoles this past semester. We have a policy that states we will not purchase additional network equipment for gaming consoles if we run out of ports and that gaming consoles may be unhooked if someone else brings in a computer and needs the port. 50% of our dorm connections this semester are gaming consoles. 4.5% of students use the wired ports in their rooms with over 2% being gaming consoles. The wired infrastructure is still important to us even though 99% of academic work is done wirelessly.
Mike Mike Hochstein Senior Network Administrator Buena Vista University >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/4/2003 5:54:54 AM >>> My university has started building dorms (to this point we've been mostly commuter). While we've wired every room and given switched 100Mbps to the pillow, there is some question as to whether we should be providing wireless as well or instead of wired. Personally, I think switched 100M is preferable, but I'm not a student. I'm well aware of the problems associated with with wireless deployment, but have no feeling for how well other wireless dorm implementations have gone. What kind of experience do you have? -- Daniel Eklund Director, Network Engineering Wayne State University 313.577.5558 office 313.577.5577 fax 313.468.2070 cell ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
