Municipal Wi-Fi & Schools
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More communities are looking at municipal Wi-Fi, even though it has not been widely adopted. One of the major concerns I have are k12 schools that are in these areas. Schools are required by law to provide filtering of the internet. Major funds like Erate can be lost without this. If our children our able to get online at schools through municipal Wi-Fi, our schools will lose control of protecting our children. Granted, they can already get on the networks bypassing school filtering. Apple iPhones and Cellular Air Cards have made this possible. I for one and not totally in favor of Municipal Wi-Fi, until they can work on limiting access for certain areas.
Tags: wifi, 802.11, schools, wireless, municipal, school, district, k12, education
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ittechiedotorg
October 30th, 2007
at 1:19pm
I am in ICT Technician in a High School, this is an issue that concerns us. We are currently lucky enough that any other wireless network we can see but the schools are all WEP or WPA protected. But what happens if one of the kids knows the key.
Although this is an issue the kids still can bypass as you say we sometimes catch them on proxy site even one did a remote desktop web connection to his home computer. If they was to go on sites they shouldn’t while in school we prefer they use schools computers so we can catch them.
Electrical devices such as mobile phones PSP iPod etc are banned at school so they can’t use them for long without being caught so this won’t be enough time to surf the web properly.