When we did the campus wide Wi-Fi at University of Tennessee back in 2001, we decided to not cover student housing. A few years later an inspired CIO, under the pressure of the student body, asked to provide Wi-Fi in the lobby of each student housing property. For two years our help desk was flooded with complaints of Wi-Fi not working in the bedrooms … where we never actually provided coverage! The SSID branding was extremely confusing with students naming their private Wi-Fi with the same name as the campus Wi-Fi. The following year, a budget was provided to carpet cover all dormitories with Wi-Fi.
My advice would be either: -Provide a great Wi-Fi well controlled all over the places, or -Provide a half baked Wi-Fi and you will either end up disconnecting it or finding a magic budget to move to a fully baked solution, or -Do not provide Wi-Fi at all As Lee mentioned, there is no practical in-between. Philippe Philippe Hanset www.anyroam.net www.eduroam.us +1 (865) 236-0770 GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C > On Mar 11, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Agreed- you either totally surrender the space to an unsupported (as in ZERO > support) network circus paradigm, or you manage it. There is no practical and > realistic in-between. > > Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) > Information Technology Services > 206 Machinery Hall > 120 Smith Drive > Syracuse, New York 13244 > t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e [email protected] w its.syr.edu > SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY > syr.edu > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Sweetser > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 8:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Welcome to Bring-Your-Own-Access | EdTech Magazine > > You can put me squarely in the "hell no!" camp on this one. We already have > enough problems as it is with printers camping on channel 7, and devices > where > the off button just hides the SSID while still keeping the radio powered up > and operating. I can only imagine the fun and games that would be involved > in > troubleshooting that kind of heterogeneous, uncoordinated RF soup. > > 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 03/10/2016 09:10 PM, Trent Hurt wrote: >> Any folks looking to adopt bring your own access policies? >> >> >> http://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/12/welcome-bring-your-own-access >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> ********** >> 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/.
