I was wondering if there are other schools who have deployed or where thinking of deploying open source code flashed access points. The students want wireless in the dorms as you all know but because of budget and time we are looking into some alternative temporary solutions, like dd-wrt flashed linksys access points. We where thinking of deploying a pre-configured AP with the antenna power setting set to it's lowest power level and a few other minor configuration. I know this could be a challenge in managing these devices (although they have appliances/software out there that can manage them). If we could give the students an alternative to bringing into their dorm a rogue AP until we can get a permanent wireless infrastructure the benefits "could" out weight the headaches. Comments?
Brian J David Network Systems Engineer Boston College ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
