Oh no, I’m not advocating a “DIY” WiFi… just that it’s frustrating that our budget cycles are 5-10 years, but technology, wireless specifically, should be more of a phased 2-3 year budget cycle.
From: Lee H Badman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 10:25 AM To: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Welcome to Bring-Your-Own-Access | EdTech Magazine But… it’s almost silly to say that 11ac laptops somehow deserve to connect to 11ac APs, and that if central IT hasn’t gotten to 11ac yet it’s then go for people to put in their own. If you have a good 11n network, the typical 11ac client won’t be able to generally tell the difference anyways. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danny Eaton Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:20 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Welcome to Bring-Your-Own-Access | EdTech Magazine Part of the frustration is that end-user WiFi is adapted quicker than budgets and hardware refresh can be done. (802.11AC laptops quicker than new APs can be budgeted, bought, and physically deployed). From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Eklund Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 10:16 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Welcome to Bring-Your-Own-Access | EdTech Magazine At Michigan we've gone with the 'Provide great wifi all over the place' model because * It's what the students expect * We know we can provide a better experience if it's centrally controlled * We know we'll get support calls if we don't, regardless of policy. And by providing great wifi we won't get as many support calls On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Philippe Hanset <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: 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 <http://www.anyroam.net> www.eduroam.us <http://www.eduroam.us> +1 (865) 236-0770 <tel:%2B1%20%28865%29%20236-0770> GPG key id: 0xF2636F9C On Mar 11, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Lee H Badman <[email protected] <mailto:[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 <tel:315.443.3003> f 315.443.4325 <tel:315.443.4325> e [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> w its.syr.edu <http://its.syr.edu> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu <http://syr.edu> -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Frank Sweetser Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 8:38 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[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 <http://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/. -- <http://www.umich.edu/assets/email-logo.png> Daniel Eklund Network Planning Manager ITS/CSDC 734-763-6389 ********** 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:911,56e2f17690111468043759! ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
