While this makes some sense, what happens if you plug your laptop into your roommates port?
My university had a policy of disallowing students on the internal network - there was wifi and some special network ports with red cables for students. A classmate had a virus and was tracked down and yelled at in class because he was also plugged into the internal network...
The FE College I teach at (not residential) has a 'guest' wifi for any device you want. Just internet access, no https let alone any other protocol. The teenagers mainly use it with their Blackberry phones to get on BBM :-)
Full authentication is only for College owned devices, not sure how they are managing that.
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While this makes some sense, what happens if you plug your laptop into your roommates port? My university had a policy of disallowing students on the internal network - there was wifi and some special network ports with red cables for students. A classmate had a virus and was tracked down and yelled at in class because he was also plugged into the internal network...
The FE College I teach at (not residential) has a 'guest' wifi for any device you want. Just internet access, no https let alone any other protocol. The teenagers mainly use it with their Blackberry phones to get on BBM :-)
Full authentication is only for College owned devices, not sure how they are managing that.
No SSL? That's a terrible way to run a network. SSL is very important when using open WiFi.
No https because the College don't want students buying things over the College connection. Also stops me using Ubuntu launchpad in breaks
It also emphasizes though that you shouldn't be doing anything long term or mission critical, but just for checking that one little thing...