Wireless Access Point Policy
St. Olaf College provides computing and networking resources in order to meet the academic needs of students, faculty, and staff. The campus network has been augmented with a wireless network available in certain areas of campus. To maintain a secure and highly functional wireless network, the college has placed certain restrictions or bans on equipment, activities, and/or software found to degrade the functionality or security of the systems or network. While on campus members of the St. Olaf community and visitors to campus are restricted from installing and using personal wireless access points and/or configuring wireless network interface cards (NIC’s) to serve as an access point.
IIT will disconnect from the campus network, without warning, any wireless access point or computer configured to serve as an access point without notification. Any individual found a second time installing and/or using a personal wireless access points and/or configuring a wireless network interface cards (NIC’s) to serve as an access point will lose computing and network privileges for one week. A third infraction will result in the loss of privileges for one month. A fourth infraction will result in the loss of privileges for the remainder of the academic year.
IIT reserves the right to restrict the use of other devices that are shown to cause interference with the campus network.
(STA 2004)
