Yes, I don’t think you are going to be able to provide an alternative SSID. The printer is supplying the SSID. The printer is not really connecting to a SSID so I doubt providing one will help. I am writing this off as another lost cause. We could consider blocking it, but I am not sure it is worth doing that. Now that 2/3rds of our users are in the 5.0ghz frequency, the overlap issue is less of a problem. We used to warn students that anyone could probably print to an open wifi printer, but some modern printers are finally providing password protection. One solution may be to provide residential printing but that has a significant cost as well. So I am going to hope that the overlap of frequencies doesn’t affect us for a long time.
Tim *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Brian Helman *Sent:* Thursday, September 01, 2016 11:09 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Res hall wireless printing.. Can you tell it’s the start of the new academic year?... I know we talk about this every year, but here we go again. How are people tackling/addressing students who want to use their wireless printers in their dorm rooms? In the past, we’ve told them they have to disable the wireless and use a USB from their laptop. That’s not flying as well as more and more people are more and more dependent on tablets, phablets and phones. We haven’t thought it through, but one option is to set up a separate, non-Internet accessible SSID for printers. We’d have to think though if it should hit the NAC, be somehow otherwise registered, do we care about security, contain those SSID’s to buildings (and not pass that traffic between buildings) etc, etc. -Brian ____________________________________ *Brian Helman, M.Ed *|* Director, ITS/Networking Services | *(: *978.542.7272* *Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970* *GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779* ********** 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/.
