We have two ssid’s.  One a “start here” that will do 802.1x onboarding, guest 
access and mac registration.  That one is all mac auth based.  The other is the 
802.1x ssid.  We onboard about 80% of the devices to 802.1x.

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Brezil
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:17 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dorm Wireless Authentication

Good morning everyone,

We are planning a larger scale roll out of wireless in our dorms. Currently we 
mainly just cover some of the common areas and students for the most part bring 
in their own routers. As most folks can appreciate, this has caused years of 
technical problems and is also not seen as great customer service.

On our main campus wifi, we have people authenticate using 802.1x radius 
authentication using their university username and password. We have some 
concerns about doing this in the dormitories however. We know that students 
bring all sorts of consumer grade devices that require network access into 
their rooms, such as Apple TV, Amazon Echos, etc. Many of these devices will 
not work with username and password authentication and we are not looking to 
Mac exclude these devices on the network, given the overhead of setting this 
up. So we are looking possibly at doing WPA Personal with a passphrase that 
would be given to students.

What are others doing? Has this come up as an issue for any of you?
Best,
Chris

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