The problem with rogues isn't going to be increases in bandwidth
utilization but interference. From what I've seen student's usually just
set them up with the default configurations. As G is the most popular
WiFi specification their is going to be 66% chance the rouge will be on
the same channel as your AP.
As part of our residential living contract we don't allow devices that
interfere with our network. You will still have to take the time to
locate the rouges before you can do something about it, but if it gets
out of hand you could have a lot of unhappy people on your hands.
Sam Stelfox wrote:
You might want to look at ways to shape all outgoing traffic if
bandwidth is an issue. There isn't any reason to limit on site traffic
and it could become very frustrating doing something as simple as
pulling a large file off of a file server. If your wireless product
supports limiting only traffic going outside of your network then more
power to it, but I haven't come across anything like that before in a
wireless product.
As for rogue wireless points, they do happen, but if your shaping your
outbound traffic there won't be any benefits to having it as they will
be limited to the same speeds. Most enterprise solutions also include
some sort of rogue countermeasures that are very effective if the access
point is in range of one of your access points at the cost of a little
bit of performance per radio.
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Heath Barnhart
Student Network Technician
Information Systems and Services
Washburn University
Topeka, Kansas
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