It's not that it's invalid, but we just can't (shouldn't) enforce it using our radios. We can enforce it politically (grievances against people who refuse to remove the APs).
-- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBRH M-9B +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure I am part of the UAH Safe Zone LGBTQIA support network: http://www.uah.edu/student-affairs/safe-zone On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Brian Helman <[email protected]> wrote: > I just saw this on CNN and jumped on the list to post. Using your own AP is > against the AUP everyone signs at our institution. Now I wonder if that > clause is invalid. > > -Brian > > > Sent from my Galaxy S4. Tiny keyboards=typing mistakes. Verify anything > sent. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Sweetser <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 3:55 PM > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] It would seem FCC just declared WLAN quarantine > features illegal > > I think a good chunk of the use is even more insidious than that. I've been > in a position where I've offered university guests access to our wifi. A > number of these users - smart, highly technical IT professionals - instead > just said "Nah, I'll just use my hotspot." > > I suspect it's a combination of two things. First, "I paid for it, so I > have > to use it to get my money's worth". Second, "I'd have to think about how to > set up a new wifi, or I can just turn on my hotspot by rote memory." > > In both cases, the cost (or lack thereof) and quality of any host offered > wifi > doesn't even factor into the decision at all. > > Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution > that > Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. > Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken > > On 10/3/2014 3:21 PM, Philippe Hanset wrote: >> Everything would be so much simpler if locations would provide Wi-Fi for >> free >> or at a reasonable price. >> When a technology is used by everyone (e.g. Electricity) like Wi-Fi, just >> include it in the cost of doing business. >> Stop charging users for Wi-Fi, especially when the room is already at >> $200+/night. People will bring their own Mi-Fi or smartphone-hotspot, >> and bypass the silly cost model! >> >> At Educause this week the Vendor-floor was plagued with hundreds of Mi-Fi >> and >> private Wi-Fi. >> The event was charging upward of $150/day for Wi-Fi to exhibitors. So, >> many of >> them had their own solutions! >> >> Humans are resourceful...and if you piss them off they will read the law >> and >> call the FCC (or they pirate your network ;-) >> >> Philippe >> >> Philippe Hanset >> www.eduroam.us <http://www.eduroam.us> >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> ********** 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/.
