Dan, We were one of the first colleges nationally to provide wired “gigabit to the pillow” in all of our residential halls. Today, those residential halls are WiFi-only and we’ve abandoned the wired, going as far as to remove the copper doing renovations.
Done well, with dense coverage in-room as well as in hallways, common spaces, etc. there are only outlier cases where a wired port would be desirable. I knew wired networking in Residential halls was at an end when a number of our first-years ask, “What’s an Ethernet Cable?” They’ve spent there Internet-connected life on wireless devices, so the term and concept is now foreign. Jeff From: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> on behalf of Daniel Wurst <wur...@denison.edu> Reply-To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Date: Friday, August 24, 2018 at 11:11 AM To: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Only in Student Housing? Hi All, We are looking into building a new student housing building and are considering going Wifi only for network connectivity. We were wondering if anyone else has gone the route of only allowing network connectivity via wireless. If so, can you share your experience, lessons learned, and advice. Thank you, Dan -- Daniel Wurst Network Engineer Denison University wur...@denison.edu<mailto:wur...@denison.edu> 740-587-6229 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
