I just saw you specified if it’s configured for pass through.
I didn’t, that’s just bad grammar. Edited the comment
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Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoAh! I just saw you specified if it’s configured for pass through. If it is configured for pass through, then yeah it likely won’t cause issues on the network. The DHCP server is the critical bit.
From a network management perspective, though, they still won’t want these because you have to trust all these college students are going to properly configure their devices - most of them won’t know how and won’t bother figuring it out. And then you still have the issue of a bunch of unmanaged access points to your network, which is just poor security.
Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 months ago
nomous@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah a simple little unmanaged switch would solve all these issues for about $20 and probably wouldn’t break the ToS.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah. I think OP’s issue is they may have a few devices that are wireless only. Not sure of the best way to handle those.
nomous@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah yeah just saw they specifically want to connect a VR headset wirelessly. I’m not real sure how to approach that either, if there’s any kind of port on the headset at all they could potentially adapt it to RJ45 but that defeats the whole point.
If a wireless connection is a must OP is just going to have to disable SSID broadcast, restrict it to certain MACs, and try to lock it down as much as possible and hope for the best. If they do it right it’ll won’t interfere with other devices and no one will ever know.