Just opened or up this weekend.  I am going to do the best I can to stop users 
from doing illegal stuff.  We are MUCH smaller than most on this list (300 
students K-12, 100 female boarding students, 100 staff, all girls past 8th 
grade).

Closing ports, filtering websites, application level filtering (layer 2) etc.

·         It is an all-girls school past 8th grade which makes it easier.

·         Filtering on the “guest” SSID will be more stringent than the 
internal.

·         Very granular port filtering.

·         Application signature blocking (in my case Watchguard).

·         Web filtering via Watchguard.

·         Throttle that SSID at the wireless and/or firewall.

·         Weekly reports/reviews.

Can’t stop everything, but …

Bob Williamson
Network Administrator
Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org
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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 3:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs, devices and guests

How do you handle RIAA complaints?

Frank

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
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 On Behalf Of Joel Coehoorn
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:45 PM
To: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs, devices and guests

We're a small residential college in small town in rural Nebraska with about 
450 students. We have a completely open guest network, and have not had any 
issues. At all. There are numerous homes adjacent to campus, in most cases just 
across a narrow street from the access points.

I think what you'll find is that no one uses bandwidth like your students use 
bandwidth. These kids live and breath online. The family or two who may try to 
leech your bandwidth will still be nearer the edge of the range and won't get 
as much as they'd like, with the result that this is a drop in the bucket next 
to what your students use on a regular basis.

Sent from my iPod

On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Bob Williamson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We are a small(ish) boarding school (K-12) with around 100 boarders.  We are 
located in a residential neighborhood with a lot of homes very close to the 
school.  Management wants an SSID for guests which does not require a password. 
 My corporate reaction is “that is crazy”.  My secondary/new to academia 
reaction is “why not”.

If the guests network is completely separated from the internal network, 
severely limited in bandwidth, web filtered, protocol/applications blocked etc. 
 Who cares?  The only potential issue I could see is web filtering can’t stop 
everything.

Then there is the whole question of how to handle “personal devices” for staff 
and students.  Any thought on that would be appreciated as well.  Thinking of 
hidden SSID (simply to make it less confusing for users) with MAC address 
limiting and DPSK (via Ruckus).

Thank you for any suggestions.  I am finding the transition from a corporate 
environment to academic, especially with boarding students, to be quite 
interesting to say the least,
Bob Williamson
Network Administrator
Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org
D: +1.253.284.5465 | F: +1.253.572.3616 | 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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