Wireless People of Educause, We are thinking about the possibility of cutting off our res halls from our campus internet circuits and then having Comcast or something similar come in provide internet and wireless to these buildings. Has anybody gone thru this (or even ultimately decided not to) and what were the factors at play that ultimately affected your decision? Also, what were the outcomes like?
I imagine that somebody like Comcast can do this using our existing coax network, but I have to wonder what the net effect will be like for the quality of service for the resident, and how the new service affects our ability to maintain our internal infrastructure in those spaces, to the extent that it is needed. Also, my gut tells me that if problems arise, the students will still call on the university to fix things and what that will entail. Thanks!--JW Jess Walczak Senior Network Analyst Information Technology Services jwwalc...@stthomas.edu University of St. Thomas | stthomas.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
