I left out a couple factors... I don't know if the printers are printing wirelessly, or that students even intend them to. They just show up with wireless enabled, and whatever education we've done on the subject doesn't seem to help.
Sometimes we'll find a printer and the person has a USB cable. "Nope, I'm not using wireless on my printer, just the USB." But they don't realize the wireless is on. We don't intend for them to work, at any rate. We prohibit it, but going door to door hasn't worked completely. Word gets around the dorms, and students hide their printers :) ---------------------------------------------------------- Tom O'Donnell Senior Manager of Network and Server Systems Information Technology Services University of Maine at Farmington (207) 778-7336 On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Julian Y Koh <kohs...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > On Oct 30, 2012, at 13:53 , Tom O'Donnell <to...@maine.edu> > wrote: >> >> I was wondering how other schools handle wireless printers in the >> dorms. This seems to be the year everyone showed up with one, and >> they're causing connectivity problems in our 2.4GHz space. > > How well do the printers work anyway wirelessly? Depending on the service > advertisement protocols and printing protocols used, the client types, your > authentication requirements (since most printers don't do > WPA2-Enterprise/802.1X) and your subnetting/address assignment scheme, I > wonder how successful people are at actually getting these things to work > anyway. > > > -- > Julian Y. Koh > Manager, Network Transport, Telecommunications and Network Services > Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) > 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 > Evanston, IL 60208 > 847-467-5780 > NUIT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> > PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
