Nancy,

A few more thoughts about your project ...

This can be useful for:

-foreign visitors, because most of them do not have data plans in the US, or if 
they do it is quite expensive
(when I went to a conference in Ireland I was pleased to have free Wi-Fi in 
buses)
-Poorly covered areas where that bus becomes the only decent connectivity 
available 
 (so, if this is the case, make sure to pick a LTE/4G provider that has great 
coverage, great throughput, and large data quotas :)

If the bus crosses mostly urban areas with nice coverage and your students have 
on average really good cellular data plans, it might be wasteful!
Do you have a large population of Foreign Students/Faculty?

I wouldn't use 802.1X for that project, and that is coming from the eduroam 
guys :(

if using 802.1X (eduroam or local) in the bus… even people with decent data 
plans that could use their own will automatically join your hotspot since Wi-Fi 
is usually preferred by devices, making it
not so usable for the people who really need it. Those people will have to 
manually disable Wi-Fi to force their device on LTE.

Also, while the bus is driving around town, even people outside the bus will 
join it (the nature of 802.1X).
This could be a mess!

Philippe

Philippe Hanset, CEO
www.anyroam.net
www.eduroam.us
+1 (865) 236-0770

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> On Aug 17, 2018, at 3:24 PM, Watson,Nancy A <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ​Thank for your reply.  I do want to know how others are doing this and if it 
> was successful.  We are concerned about overage charges and the quality of 
> the wireless vs  using their cellphone 4G connection. 
> 
> Nancy
> 
> 
>  Nancy Watson                                                           
>  Engineer, Network Services - UFIT                                            
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> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam ssid on RTS
>  
> We are an Aruba shop. For several years we have been using Aruba’s remote 
> access points on athletic highway coaches with a 4G backhaul through the 
> vendor installed cradlepoint router. The APs also support 4G USB sticks 
> though. The main issues in our case initially was bandwidth overage charges.  
>  
> We are not an EDUROAM customer but the APs terminate over an IPsec tunnel to 
> our controllers like they are on campus. I know this is not the Cisco 
> solution you were looking for.
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> From: Watson,Nancy A [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 8:10 AM
> Subject: eduroam ssid on RTS
>  
> ​I am involved in a joint project with RTS to run eduroam on  the city buses 
> that pass through our campus to service the students.  We are currently a 
> Cisco Shop and I was curious if anyone has done anything like this with Cisco 
> or any other vendor.
>  
> Thanks,
> Nancy
>  Nancy Watson                                                           
>  Engineer, Network Services - UFIT                                            
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