"Our philosophy is that use of the open network should be so painful an experience that they will be highly motivated to configure their devices to connect to the encrypted network, which requires a college account for authentication."
Ah, so you like to torture your guests. :) Pete M. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Rodkey Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 7:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Network Access Policy 1) yes, we allow guests in the public, academic, and administrative buildings, but not in the dorms. a. It is an open network. b. N/A 2) see 1). Note: we restrict bandwidth to a bit more than a trickle on the open SSID, and we disallow any streaming, video, or audio application. Our philosophy is that use of the open network should be so painful an experience that they will be highly motivated to configure their devices to connect to the encrypted network, which requires a college account for authentication. We have a splash page stating this, but we still get people wondering "why your network is so slow." On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Alexander, David <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We have had a policy in place for several years requiring guests to be sponsored by an employee in order to use our wireless network. There are two types of sponsorship - short term (5 days) and long term (30 days). In addition, sponsored guests must register their network devices via MAC address registration to gain access to the network. Our guest wireless implementation has caused some issues with public areas like our student center and event spaces which host groups of people who require network access, and the identity of the guests isn't always known in advance. I wanted to know about guest network access policy at other schools, and I'd appreciate your feedback on the following questions: 1) Do you allow guests on your wireless network? a. If you allow guests, what steps do they need to take to gain access to the network (eg. sponsorship, MAC registration, open network)? b. If you require sponsorship or device registration, can you explain the process or give me a pointer to your policy? 2) Is your wireless network completely open in any part of your campus (eg. Library, student center, event spaces, athletic fields, etc.)? Thanks, Dave ********** 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/.
