Banning 2.4 GHz would ban a large portion of the consumer PCs and mobile
devices and all current game consoles.
I know that would not work here. We initially only offered IPTV on 5GHz n and
had to expand the offering to 2.4GHz due to complaints from students. Excluding
game consoles would also
To me, this whole mess has a lot of contributing factors in the aggregate.
Lazy/dated/stuck-in-time client device makers, policy that is either lacking,
not enforced, or impossible to practically enforce, merchants (like campus
bookstores)not engaged or sympathetic to campus IT when it comes to
Is anyone running a separate SSID just for these types of devices that don't do
802.1X (printers, xbox, wii, nook, etc.)?
The previous institution that I was at had one of these that allowed students
to connect these devices after registering the MAC address of the device. And
Penn is currently
Hi Charles,
Yes, we are running a separate SSID for that kind of stuff. We have a web form
where students register MAC addresses. We subscribe to the "dorm should be just
like home" theory that Lee described. We do our best to support whatever gaming
and entertainment devices that show up.
We
This is our experience. Students are printing via USB and don't realize
that wireless is enabled. Many students don't pay attention to our many
communication efforts. To win the war for those who do, we dedicate bodies
to hunt them down, do one-on-one education, offer to find/read the docs and
turn
For those who treat their dorms "just like home", do you also
segregate traffic from each room and backhaul the traffic just like
ISPs do for each home, rather than treating the entire dorm as one big
happy subnet? Then you wouldn't have the problem of "thousands of
devices" in the subnet. Each r
