<p>From people with experience, any advice on which routers to use? I would love to use an Airport Extreme, but I've heard that the MAC address can't be configured easily, and that colleges like to have you register by your MAC address. Has anyone seen a working Airport extreme at Columbia?</p>
<p>don’t get a router</p>
<p>It seems that wireless routers are banned? Is this rule strictly enforced or do kids generally get away with setting up wireless networks?</p>
<p>Cough** not strictly enforced ** cough. I’m not exactly sure what the best router to use would be… probably something with wireless N… and I wouldn’t worry about getting the address registered with the college since it’s technically not allowed.</p>
<p>i guess the IT dept really doesn’t care… [Apple</a> Airport Express Setup](<a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/acis/networks/aptnet/express/index.html]Apple”>http://www.columbia.edu/acis/networks/aptnet/express/index.html)</p>
<p>i went for the express. The best buy guy convinced me it’s the best for a dorm room… saved me 100 bucks.</p>
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<p>that link is for student apartments not dorms</p>
<p>either way i think a router is a good idea in a suite where you can put a password on it that you’ll only share with your suitemates but in a hallway dorm even if you put a password on the network and only share it with a few people eventually everyone will have the password and you’ll loose control over what is going through your internet connection which might cause you to eventually get sued by the RIAA or something of the sort</p>
<p>I was actually planning on being super greedy and only using it for me. I will have a printer and speakers hooked into the network so I don’t want any surprises. I don’t think I can regulate permissions to those devices.</p>
<p>On a side note… the airport extreme has that filtering capability and even has a built in guest network.</p>
<p>CUIT doesn’t care about routers, really… unless you’re stupid/tech-illiterate and hook it up wrong. Just make sure that the cord from the wall jack goes into the WAN (usually, it’s spaced apart a bit from the other ports) port and not the switch ports. </p>
<p>(they also don’t care if you can set it up as a wireless switch… but i’m not going to go into that.)</p>