I know we're not .us, but we rolled out eduroam as our primary/only SSID so that our users were already set up for it whenever they went away to visit another institution, and didn't have to suffer whatever guest arrangements other places had. Not only that, it lifted some of the burden of giving visitors access.
On an enterprise scale, there's not much option but to use WPA(2)-Enterprise with radius etc anyway, and having a local enterprise network gives you 2 different names for essentially the same thing which simply causes more hassle for the users and impacts their experience. We provide a captive portal SSID that contains setup instructions for our users, and now clients behave somewhat better WRT wireless configuration (.mobileconfig etc), it's easy to get a client set up OK. We've been providing eduroam for a long time (since 2007), it's well accepted by our users and they appreciate the ability to go away to a conference, or visit another library, open their laptop and be connected. -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Williamson Sent: 03 May 2013 15:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student devices We only have 500+ people to deal with, so we hand out Ruckus DPSK (PSK good for one MAC address only) for all devices, school owned and private. This has worked out well as we avoid Radius etc. in our small environment. All school devices on a single SSID/vlan, all private devices on another SSID/vlan. I have started reading up on Eduroam, but would like to hear some commentary as to why people are beginning to roll it out. Thanks, Bob Williamson Network Administrator Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org<http://www.aw.org/> D: 253.272.2216 | F: 253.572.3616 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Cappalli Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 7:02 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student devices Same secure SSID, WPA2-AES. They can also use the open SSID if they choose. Starting in Fall 2013, everyone will be using eduroam. Tim Tim Cappalli, Network Engineer LTS | Brandeis University x67149 | (617) 701-7149 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, LaMarr Baucom <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I was curious how you all handle student devices on your campus side. Do you guys use a dedicated SSID? Is it open, encrypted, are you using 802.1x? Any other details would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, LaMarr Baucom Wireless Network Engineer Murray State University (270) 809-2299<tel:%28270%29%20809-2299> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> MSU Information Systems staff will never ask for your password or other confidential information via email. ********** 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
