We here at Rice U. have a visitor wireless network (with splash page/policy acceptance), 802.1x network for students, staff and faculty to join, and are testing an eduroam setup. personal devices are steered to the wired network, as we have nothing set up for MAC registration at this time for wireless devices.
Connected by Motorola Britton Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >It's a hot topic with us as well at the start of each semester. Currently, >we only allow consoles and media devices on the wired network. We don't >want them consuming air time, as nearly all of them will keep a connection >open while powered down/asleep. > >Rather than manage the traffic, we manage user expectations as best we can. >Being in Alaska, bandwidth is hard to come by. And a 550Mbps link with >approximately 9,000 simultaneous clients doesn't equate to much per >connection. Like Bruce, we also utilize PacketShaper to help out. We have >partitions set up for staff and student address spaces and prioritize >staff/faculty space above students. After hours, students can (and >typically do) max it out. > > > >Britton Anderson <[email protected]> | Senior Network Communications >Specialist* *| Office of Information Technology <http://www.alaska.edu/oit> > | 907.450.8250 > > >On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Entwistle, Bruce < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> I know this topic has been discussed before but the start of the new >> school year has restarted our conversation on this topic. What I am >> referring to is what schools are doing to accommodate students in >> connecting their entertainment devices (game consoles, media streaming >> players, etc) to the campus wireless network along with managing the >> traffic associated with these devices. We are considering different >> options for authentication; periodically changed static key, MAC address >> registration, along with using our PacketShaper to manage the traffic, but >> are looking to see what other campuses have done and the challenges they >> encountered. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> Thank you in advance for you response**** >> >> 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/. > > > >!DSPAM:911,5238c90e81051294314587!
