Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Faculty Wireless Computer Concerns

[John J. Brassil]

Our law faculty specifically requested that we not cover lecture halls when we installed wireless in that building. We did the best we could, but of course there is no way to cover all the common area in a building and not get *some* leakage into adjacent classroom space, so we just did as crappy as job as possible. ;)

The "best pratice" would be for the professors to announce that anyone caught surfing during class will take a letter grade hit for each offense.

Seriously, this is a policy issue, not a technology issue. Unless you are willing & able to toggle RF coverage up & down campus-wide, based on classroom usage that changes hourly, the only way to handle this question is having the instructors announce and enforce their policies themselves.

And don't be surprised if you also see some of this backlash at conferences and seminars in the near future - way too many people in the audience will fire up their laptops and stay on *all day* if they have a connection. And power, can't forget that.

John

--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:17 AM -0800 Mike Stocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Does anyone have faculty who do not want students using wireless to surf
> the Internet and send e-mail
>
> during class and if so what best practices have been created to prevent
> these activities?
>
> Mike Stocke
>
> University of Washington, Bothell



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