Hello to this group. I'm looking for updated information on what (and if) schools are doing for "open" wireless network access. It's easy to trip over the words "guest" and "open" so I'll define the terms for this question:
-guest- someone who has been sponsored in some way by an authorized computing account holder affiliated with your college or University -open- anyone, period. Think of it as hotsot access, no affiliation with your school or college needed. With that out of the way, here's the questions about open access: - Do you allow open wireless access to the local community or anyone else? What is your strategy for this? - If you do allow open access, have you had problems? - If you haven't had problems, do you fear problems like malicious activity originating from your network that can't be tracked to a user? - If you allow open access, were your risk management/legal types consulted? Guest access- - How do you "sponsor" visiting guest? - Any self-service mechanisms for staff and faculty to quickly get a visitor on the wireless network without having to contact someone in IT? - Any guest access horror stories? Thanks for your time- it's a great group. Please, no sales calls in response to this posting. Lee H. Badman Network Engineer CWSP, CWNA (CWNP011288) Computing and Media Services (NSS) 250 Machinery Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 443-3003 Voice (315) 443-1621 Fax ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
