That's absolutely correct. I am currently a student here at UTD, and we've been in our apartments about a month now. We ordered Comcast cable, linked it to a 802.11g wireless router, and connected to it via our wireless NICs. About two days ago, we were requested, by Waterview, to take down our routers, APs, and whatnot because the school was detecting several "rogue" networks that were interfering with the connection to the Waterview/UTD network. Since then, many people have had to buy, cut, crimp, and wire their apartments due to the threat of "disciplinary action". AFAIK, and as my lease states, UTD does not have total ownership over Waterview Park apartments. The university owns the land that the apartments are on, but the buildings themselves and the apartments that we lease are owned by the company that runs Waterview Park. It seemed a bit illogical to me that the apartment complex had the authority to have us disable our routers/APs, but I've heard from other students that they were routinely logging into other networks when AirUTD (the name of the Waterview/UTD shared wireless network) went down, which it does frequently. Also, there are rumors that the APs that we have activated are taking signal from the "official" APs and therein lies the problem: Since they can't get enough signal strength, the network wanes in reliability, and thus the university and Waterview have requested the shutdown. As for the legality of the issue, I've not had the time between class and work to research it myself, but I'm sure there are students here who know FCC regulations, federal law, and whatnot inside and out.
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That's absolutely correct. I am currently a student here at UTD, and we've been in our apartments about a month now. We ordered Comcast cable, linked it to a 802.11g wireless router, and connected to it via our wireless NICs. About two days ago, we were requested, by Waterview, to take down our routers, APs, and whatnot because the school was detecting several "rogue" networks that were interfering with the connection to the Waterview/UTD network. Since then, many people have had to buy, cut, crimp, and wire their apartments due to the threat of "disciplinary action". AFAIK, and as my lease states, UTD does not have total ownership over Waterview Park apartments. The university owns the land that the apartments are on, but the buildings themselves and the apartments that we lease are owned by the company that runs Waterview Park. It seemed a bit illogical to me that the apartment complex had the authority to have us disable our routers/APs, but I've heard from other students that they were routinely logging into other networks when AirUTD (the name of the Waterview/UTD shared wireless network) went down, which it does frequently. Also, there are rumors that the APs that we have activated are taking signal from the "official" APs and therein lies the problem: Since they can't get enough signal strength, the network wanes in reliability, and thus the university and Waterview have requested the shutdown. As for the legality of the issue, I've not had the time between class and work to research it myself, but I'm sure there are students here who know FCC regulations, federal law, and whatnot inside and out.