Charles:
You brought up OTARD, so I can help but ask: what was the line of reasoning
your legal office followed to come up with the policy that you "reserve the
right to limit the use of non-wireless Andrew 2.4 GHz devices"?
This topic has been beaten to death on this listserv and I though the
co
Philippe:
Here are answers from Carnegie Mellon. We have had Wireless Andrew in our
dorms since the summer of 2001.
-Destruction/disappearance of APs
In our agreement with our Housing Services department, students that have a
university-owned AP in their dorm rooms are covered under the same agr
If you are suggesting an AP you could suggest that they purchase
an AP that supports 802.11a if their laptop supports 802.11a. That
way there would be more than 3 channels and therefore the possibility
of less interference.
Along the same lines, if they purchase an 802.11n AP and their
Hi Lee,
1. Based on my experience at UBC, the captive portal lowest "common
denominator" network will continue to be the best way to bootstrap
users for 802.1x/WPA/WPA2 (until MS and Apple builds something
better).
It's interesting to see that the corporate world is catching up by
adding captive
Here at Syracuse University, we are feeling pretty good about 802.1x and
will be transitioning to it (for the wireless network only) before the
Fall semester. Our topologies are defined, our building blocks are in
place, and our WLAN skills in general are quite solid.
One issue we are wrestling w
Philippe brings up some good points. We, however, aren't ready to bite
the $350,000 bullet for a redundant system purely for convenience.
We are starting to feel some pressure to do "something," though. Like
everyone else (I imagine), we get beat up for not having wireless in the
dorms. We have a
