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Wireless Access Points (WAP) are not permitted in student's rooms. Students found running a WAP can have privileges terminated.
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Resnet tends to treat everyone equally, whether you're savy with computers or not. It would be much too difficult for them to differentiate and allow exceptions for different cases amongst thousands of students. And even moreso, they don't know who to trust; since whose to stop users from giving out their (wireless) WEP keys (or allowing more MAC addresses) so that people who don't live on campus to be able to access resnet networks? Of course i'm not suspecting that you guys would, i'm just throwing it out as a possibility that resnet would have to consider. :)</p>
<p>On a side note, even w/ another layer of MAC filtering, i'm sure someone can break the encryption (especially if WEP) and then spoof their packets to look like your MAC address to get in on your router. ;)</p>
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I had a question about the ResNet service. Since you guys prohibit wireless networks (even encrypted, booooooo), would it be acceptable to have a desktop computer connected to ResNet broadcast the connection over Bluetooth so that it would be wireless for about 100 feet? This setup would be to allow my MacBook to be wireless while in my dorm or in a neighboring one. Or really, would anyone even find out since it would look like a bluetooth cellphone anyways...
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It would be best to ask Resnet themselves about this. I would bet they wouldn't really care about the bluetooth, but don't take my word for it as the department I work with is apart from resnet.</p>