Printers on their own SSID is fine if you’re printing from a file, but what if you’re printing from a website .. how do you get to that site if you’re on the printer’s SSID?
-Brian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 1:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Res hall wireless printing.. Most printers I’ve touched of late have two wireless modes. You can certainly put them on the Infrastructure WLAN. Or… you can print directly to them with their own SSID. FWIW. Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, 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]<mailto:[email protected]> w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Tyler Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 12:57 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Res hall wireless printing.. 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]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Brian Helman Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 11:09 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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/. ********** 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/.
