[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone 3.0 ...

[Tim Chown]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:17:09AM +0100, Andrew Paul Landells wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2009, at 20:33, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> >When I spoke to iSolutions about eduroam, they said there was not  
> >much demand for it, as noone had registered, so it wasn't given a  
> >supported status...
> >Although they know you don't have to register...
> >They seemed to think I was one of only two or three they knew about.
> >So I suggested that they might like to find out how many people were  
> >actually using it.
> 
> They appear to have missed that the big advantage of this system is  
> that members of *other* institutions can use it to get online.  
> iSolutions already provide a wireless service for SOTON members, This  
> is for visitors to get online here, and for us to get online at other  
> sites. Perhaps they need reminding of this?

The good bnews is there looks to be significant funding to expand campus 
wireless.

The bad news is that certain iSolutions staff just don't 'get' eduroam,
or worse simply refuse to deploy an 802.1x-based authentication system.

I will try (again) to find out what's going wrong.

-- 
Tim