Hi All,
Our housing policy states that students should not bring wireless printers and
other devices that might interfere with the campus wireless to the residence
halls. However, students buy whatever is on sale and bring the printers
anyway. They don't try to setup the wireless, but they
Joann,
If the printer wifi isn't being used, I wouldn't expect that it would cause
much interference. The printers will send some Wi-Fi beacons, and others may
see the devices in their Wi-Fi list, but neither of those would pose much of an
issue.
At the UW, we do allow users to bring and
We have seen some HP printers broadcast an ad hoc SSID (usually very strongly
and on an interfering channel) whenever the printer is not configured for
Wi-Fi. Like Joann, we have to track these down to fix them.
Jason
Jason Todd
Network Security Officer
Western University of Health Sciences
