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Post by texasbookworm on May 2, 2013 14:30:39 GMT
I understand the need for the technology department to feel that they are maintaining some semblance of control over the use of the district's computer network, but the current process for connecting to WiFi is unnecessarily complex and creates massive hurdles for the end user and for campus personnel trying to assist students and staff. When students use the MISD Wireless, they are going through the district's content filter already - so why muddle things up by requiring that security certificates be downloaded, that AirWatch & AnyConnect be installed / configured, etc.? These things create more problems than they solve. There is no security in this - students know how to bypass all of this. They use each other IDs for logins. There has to be an easier way to get people connected to WiFi. I believe it should be that when a user turns on their device, they are prompted to accept the AUP and that's it - they're in. That's what the rest of the world does.
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Post by Artoo on May 2, 2013 16:53:08 GMT
texasbookworm is right... although bandwidth has increased some, and speed is somewhat faster... it needs to be dependable for classroom use
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Post by eliotj on May 3, 2013 1:46:15 GMT
An email was sent out asking teachers to use wired whenever and wherever possible.
Speaking of bandwidth requires us to think of TWO sets of bandwidth. Wireless is NOT unlimited. there is only so much wireless bandwidth available before we get too much traffic to handle. Then we have to talk about the WIRED bandwidth as well.
Think of all of those teacher and student cell phones connected, teacher and student ipads, laptops, classroom computers. We need a lot more bandwidth.
Wireless access points will relieve come congestion, and even though there can technically be 253 devices on each access point, that doesn't mean that it can really handle the load. If it were only text being sent it's compressible, but lots of data aren't. Add the photos, videos and all of the other different types of data being sent and I can't imagine the load that's there.
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