We are not quite in the same boat, being a science museum, but I will answer anyway. We installed a wireless network mainly because we have multiple meeting rooms that we rent out to other businesses/organizations and they pretty much demanded it. As our meeting rooms along with our computer lab are scattered all over the facility, we basicly ended up with building wide coverage. I have like 8 access points now. We have this semi-open to the public. It has an encryption key, but it is just the name of the facility and anyone that asks can get it. Up to now, the bandwidth drain of public use has been negligable. We HAVE had issues with the facilities rental groups eating up everything available, especially when they get 15-20 laptops going. I am in the process now of negotiating faster internet, which I hope will cure the issues.
Elton Prater Exhibits, IT, Building Mgr Science Spectrum Lubbock, TX On 4/29/2010 11:24 AM, Steward, Jeff wrote: > Hello all, > > For those of you that offer public Wi-Fi at your institution what were your > reasons for doing so? Was it just as a perk to your visitors or was there > something more to it? > > Thanks, > Jeff > > -- > Jeff Steward > Architect for Applications Development > 617-495-0785 > jeff_steward at harvard.edu<mailto:jeff_steward at harvard.edu> > > Harvard Art Museum > 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 > www.harvardartmuseum.org<http://www.harvardartmuseum.org> > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > >
