What happens when all these hotspots start interfering with your business wireless APs and prevent you from conducting business? In the case of a hotel if all the door access is using wireless to let you in your room and all the personal hotpots being used by guests are preventing doors from opening then I think the hotel has the obligation to ban the use of hotspots. However if all these devices play nice and don't cause problems then no one should block anything.
We tell students they can't bring their own access points to dorms and if we find they we tell them to shut them down. I know of many colleges that do the same. I can see the FCC telling colleges they can't do that anymore if they can tell hotels they can't From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Murphy Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 2:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] It would seem FCC just declared WLAN quarantine features illegal The first thoughts that pop to my mind are when is it ok to contain an AP that isn't a) on your network and b) doesn't belong to one of your employees? As it's being used by a hotel guest the usual security concerns about rogues don't apply. Would this be any different than containing an AP belonging to, say, an office bordering your site that isn't part of your institution? -Chris On Oct 3, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What do you all think of this? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/after-blocking-personal-hotspot-at-hotel-marriott-to-pay-fcc-600000/ - Lee Badman ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Murphy - MIT IS&T Operations Program Management - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** 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/.
