-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri Jan 27 2012 09:54:40 Central Time, Peter P Morrissey wrote: > > I've seen this come up a couple of times. So I hope you don't mind me asking, > what would be the advantage of providing "very low total bandwidth" for your > guests?
One line of reasoning would be that you want to differentiate the guest network from your regular user network in terms of service level. Your typical user isn't going to readily appreciate the advantages that a regular WPA2 Enterprise SSID has in terms of encryption and centralized authentication, and in general you don't want the guest network to be an attractive option for your regular users. Also, depending on how your bandwidth is provisioned, you might want to prioritize/reserve traffic for your regular users over guest traffic anyway. Finally (at least from what I can think of quickly :)), depending on your physical proximity to non-University spaces, you might not want your guest network to be an attractive access option for people who are just next to your campus and could leech off your resources without being actual guests. - -- Julian Y. Koh <mailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu> Manager, Network Transport <phone:847-467-5780> Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk8iyk0ACgkQDlQHnMkeAWOG3gCg0+njUvscHatzECw+i/U2O6Ut FfIAoN1Zj6rWm80IJHhZGp3JcSH++aLu =NEHh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
