We have two visitor/guest wireless methods here. Visitors who are not affiliated with staff or faculty have free access to our ubcvisitor SSID. Originally we had planned to only turn this on temporarily to support our 2010 Winter Olympics venue and Olympics related visitors around campus. However, it was so well received that we decided to make it a permanent fixture in our service catalogue. This is an open wireless network with a web based captive portal. When users connect and open their web browser, they are redirected to a AUP. At the bottom of the page they must submit their email address to accept the AUP. We use Cisco's onboard webauth daemon for this with the "Passthrough" option. The network is port restricted and bandwidth limited per subscriber/client. Routes to Canarie, Internet2 are not enabled on this network. More details can be found here; http://it.ubc.ca/service_catalogue/internet_telephone/wireless/visitor_wireless.html
Guests who are affiliated with a staff or faculty can use our regular WPA2 / 802.1x enabled wireless network like everyone else on campus. This gives the guest access to library catalogues, departmental resources, printers, etc. Staff or faculty can sponsor an account on the system for these users. The sponsor takes all responsibility for their acceptable use on the network as per our IT policies. Cheers, ---- Geoff Armstrong Network Analyst, Network Management Centre Information Technology | Engage, Envision, Enable. The University of British Columbia Tel: 604.822.1305 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Entwistle, Bruce Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 08:39 To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Visitor access We are having a increasing number of parents and prospective students who are visiting to tour the campus requesting access to our wireless network. I was wondering what other schools are doing to accommodate these requests. Thank you Bruce Entwistle Network Manager University of Redlands ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
