We were just having this conversation in-house this morning. The problem isn't APs - its printers, TVs, Rokus, Amazon Fire TVs, Playstations, etc. We don't have the people to manage the quantity that are out there (probably 1 in 4 or 5 rooms have something broadcasting). They don't realize their HP printer that is connected via USB is also broadcasting Wifi. And they don't know that their Roku/Fire Stick/Vizio TV is using WiFi for the connection to the remote control, and there's no way to turn it off. There's also no way to tell this many students to take those devices off campus (and there would probably be a riot about it). The terrible idea that is WiFi Direct is polluting the airwaves. And while it's primarily 2.4GHz now, I'm sure it's coming to 5GHz soon. We're at a bit of a loss for how to really handle this issue.
Another increasing issue is mobile hotspots from phones. These only pop up on off hours and are difficult to track down and "prove" who was doing it. Thomas Carter Network & Operations Manager / IT Austin College 900 North Grand Avenue Sherman, TX 75090 Phone: 903-813-2564 www.austincollege.edu<http://www.austincollege.edu/> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hales, David Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 10:14 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless printers and other devices in residence halls Our residence hall policy and campus acceptable use policy specify that students are not allowed to connect routers, switches, or access points to the wired network, or operate independent wireless access points in campus facilities. Our NAC and switches are able to handle any that get plugged into wired drops. We don't have too many wireless issues caused by rogue APs, but when we detect an issue related to one, we locate them rather than mitigate them. We haven't run into one where the student was really trying to hide an AP, so we can usually localize it to a room or two, and then residential life finds them during one of their room inspections. Usually the student is just ignorant of the policy violation, and packs the device away. We haven't had any really rebellious students that insisted on bringing the device back online at a later time. David Hales Network Systems Administrator Information Technology Services 1010 N. Peachtree Clement Hall 117 Cookeville, TN 38505 P 931-372-3983 F 931-372-6130 E dha...@tntech.edu<mailto:dha...@tntech.edu> www.tntech.edu/its<http://www.tntech.edu/its> [Tennessee Tech Logo]<https://www.tntech.edu/> [TTU Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tennesseetech/> [TTU Twitter] <https://twitter.com/tennesseetech> [TTU Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/tntechuniversity/> [TTU Youtube] <https://www.youtube.com/user/ttunews> [TTU Pintrest] <https://www.pinterest.com/tennesseetech/> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Davis, Steve Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 9:56 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless printers and other devices in residence halls I wanted to get an idea how everyone is handling students bringing in all types of wireless devices, which are basically access points. We have so many printers, TVs, Roku devices, game systems and who knows what else out there in the student rooms and these devices are causing issues with our campus wireless network. Do you allow these devices on your network? If not, how do you prevent the students from having them? I have Cisco wireless controllers where I can block rogue APs but that keeps the APs which are containing the rogue AP from servicing the clients and I don't have dense enough coverage to be able to do this for every rogue device. Thanks in advance -Steve Steve Davis | Network Manager Department of Technology Infrastructure Lock Haven University 519 Robinson Hall 401 North Fairview Street, Lock Haven, PA 17745 Phone: 570-484-2290 | sda...@lockhaven.edu<mailto:sda...@lockhaven.edu> | www.lockhaven.edu<http://www.lockhaven.edu/> Connect with us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/LockHavenUniv/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/LockHavenUniv> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/LHU1870> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
