We also have a commercial hotspot provided on our campus here at London
Business School.
TheCloud provides a service across our existing network of Access
Points. The campus network access points have two SSIDs, and the public
hotspot traffic runs in a separate VLAN across our LAN and over a VPN to
their core network.
The landing page that clients get when attached to commercial hotspot is
slightly different from other sites in that there are links that allow
free access to our website and portal (walled garden links) that were
agreed when the service was set up, so a guest on our site need not pay
to get to the majority of our campus resources, but can use a voucher, a
supported roaming account, or a credit card to browse elsewhere.
It was reasonably easy to set up, the service works well and is well
received by our customers. I would imagine that hotspot operators in the
US would be able to provide a similar service, and it can generate a
revenue stream if that was required.
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Tomo.
Network & Telecoms Project Engineer, Information Systems Division
London Business School, Sussex Place, Regents Park, London. NW1 4SA
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On 31/03/2006 15:16, William Paraska wrote:
That certainly is the question and one that ought to bother all of us. That is
the reason that GSU has stopped providing access to non-University affiliated
users. We push them to a commercial carrier that rides our same access points.
They require identification and they track the bad actors.
Bill Paraska
Director, University Computing and Communications
Information Systems and Technology
(404) 651-0881
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Ok, I have to ask the question that's been sitting on my mind for a while
now. All the places that essentially allow unauthenticated wireless
(including asking for an e-mail that anybody could easily just put
[EMAIL PROTECTED]): How do you deal with abuse ? I realize that your choice of
protocols likely limits the options, but it's still quite viable (for
example posting of content to a message board, blog comment, or other
public space that triggers legal or law enforcement response) ? Many of
the safe harbor provisions protecting us legally are predicated on our
ability to "point the finger" at the real offender. If we're unable to do
so, we automatically become liable for the actions. How do you track down
misbehaving guest users ?
-S
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Joyce, Todd N wrote:
We allow these services for Guest Wireless Access and we are working to
allow VPN to the outside.
DNS - UDP 53
HTTP - TCP 80
HTTPS - TCP 443
Todd Joyce
Network Services
Radford University - The Smart Choice
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Keep your boots and ChapStick and ice hotels.
Give me shorts and sandals and a thirty-blocker.
Temperance Brennan - Monday Mourning
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From: Entwistle, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:33 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access
We have recently installed a wireless network on a portion of the
campus. The student and administrators are all authenticated through a
front end device which validates user accounts against an LDAP server
running on a domain controller. However we now have the requirement
for guests of the campus to connect to the wireless network. We have
some ideas how we would like to handle this issue but are curious as to
what others have done to accommodate these guest connections. Please
let me know.
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