We have a standard as follows “Personal wireless access points, network switches, and routers are not permitted on campus as they can interfere with the functioning of the campus network.”
https://indstate.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1851/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=94518 Now granted it doesn’t say want we are allowed or not allowed to do. So we can start with a healthy discussion and then if necessary we just shut off the ports in their room. When they call and complain it is discussed again. Since it is a violation of policy it could in theory escalate to a higher authority. We actually chased one through about 3 dorm rooms, disabling ports as we went. When those other rooms started to complain we told them what caused it to be disabled. We are not really sure what happened next but I think a jury of the offending user peers addressed the issue…. The rogue AP never appeared again…. and all the ports were re-enabled. - David L. 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Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I'd lean more towards a kid being funny but having now clue what a channel is. Some wireless routers come from factory with settings like this. Or the user clicks on options that doesn't understand. I've seen other names such as "get off my internet" or "FBI surveillance" On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:01 PM Bryan Ward <bryan.w...@dartmouth.edu<mailto:bryan.w...@dartmouth.edu>> wrote: If you find the person who did this you should probably offer them a job. maybe a call to your local FCC inspector might be in order. Even though these are part 15 devices I'm pretty sure that this would count as intentional malicious interference. What's the duty cycle of the spectrum? Is it actually interfering with your operations? 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The signal is not high enough to interfere with most clients, but for some of our meshed access points, the signal level is fairly close to the signal available from the mesh's host access point. Is this a common thing? Have others seen the same on their campus, and if so, what are the policies and practices that you follow? I know the signal is coming from off-campus, but I don't have assurance that it is malicious intent or that it is intended to disrupt our campus network. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks Westmont College ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. 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