Interesting commentary about how there are still a lot of bumps to smooth out before WiFi becomes ubiquitous.
While it’s great to see more efforts focused on bringing more Wi-Fi to more places, isn’t it also time that someone focused on making the whole process of connecting to various Wi-Fi connections, no matter who controls them or how they’re set up, less of a hassle?
The rest from The Feature.
Wireless can be easy or difficult.
Students have mixed feelings about the current system. Some prefer to have a wireless system that is secure, as opposed to an unsecured network where any hacker can see what they are downloading to their laptops. Others would like to have a network that has no log-on restrictions. Different wireless systems on campus have different requirements for use, from insecure to secure.
No pain, no gain?
I went to the U of Utah library website to find the instructions for installing a particular wireless networking software package. What I ran across instead was information about their campus-wide 802.1X implementation — both wired and wireless — of which the library is a major player:
Perhaps this is just a case where a university is out in front of everyone else, and it may take time for something inevitable like Port Based Network Access Control (a.k.a. 802.1X).