This is our experience. Students are printing via USB and don't realize that wireless is enabled. Many students don't pay attention to our many communication efforts. To win the war for those who do, we dedicate bodies to hunt them down, do one-on-one education, offer to find/read the docs and turn wireless off, and as a last option for the cheap printers that can't disable wireless--plead with the student to power it up and down whenever they need to print.
Rand Rand P. Hall Director, Network Services askIT! Merrimack College 978-837-3532 [email protected] If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions. – Einstein On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Tom O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote: > I left out a couple factors... I don't know if the printers are > printing wirelessly, or that students even intend them to. They just > show up with wireless enabled, and whatever education we've done on > the subject doesn't seem to help. > > Sometimes we'll find a printer and the person has a USB cable. "Nope, > I'm not using wireless on my printer, just the USB." But they don't > realize the wireless is on. > > We don't intend for them to work, at any rate. We prohibit it, but > going door to door hasn't worked completely. Word gets around the > dorms, and students hide their printers :) > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Tom O'Donnell > Senior Manager of Network and Server Systems > Information Technology Services > University of Maine at Farmington > (207) 778-7336 > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Julian Y Koh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2012, at 13:53 , Tom O'Donnell <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> I was wondering how other schools handle wireless printers in the > >> dorms. This seems to be the year everyone showed up with one, and > >> they're causing connectivity problems in our 2.4GHz space. > > > > How well do the printers work anyway wirelessly? Depending on the > service advertisement protocols and printing protocols used, the client > types, your authentication requirements (since most printers don't do > WPA2-Enterprise/802.1X) and your subnetting/address assignment scheme, I > wonder how successful people are at actually getting these things to work > anyway. > > > > > > -- > > Julian Y. Koh > > Manager, Network Transport, Telecommunications and Network Services > > Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) > > 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 > > Evanston, IL 60208 > > 847-467-5780 > > NUIT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> > > PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> > > > > ********** > > 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/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
