Easy answer to 1
Buy wireless router herself, connect to laptop wired once only, log into admin menu, disable DHCP, log out, disconnect laptop, plug router into Ethernet cable, use wireless. Simples.

May have left step 1 "don't be a cunt" out.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:25, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Nope
We don't allow it. Someone tried that one last year. They paid for their internet, attached a router and then sold it cut price to the other people in his block. We noticed there was an unauthorised bit of kit attached within hours and disconnected it. These days we have device registration before they can use any kit on the network.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:33, Reply)

Isn't there something in the International Bill of Human Rights ensuring that all children have the right to a wireless internet connection?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:35, Reply)

Yeh but we got Russia to veto it or something

( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:36, Reply)

What a nice totalitarian university you work for
Why the fuck can't someone have wireless if they want it?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:55, Reply)

Cos its not free
see above
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:11, Reply)

Just give each room a phone line, they can sort the rest

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:23, Reply)

Each room has a phone but they are all Cisco VOIP phones
They plug the computer in to the back of the phone.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:25, Reply)

I think you have over complicated things
give them all a box room with a mattress on the floor, a chair in the corner and a bin. Give them one power socket and a phone line. They can sort the rest.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:29, Reply)

Also a lot of wireless routers have switches built in to them
And if you plugged an unconfigured switch in to a routed network it can cause all sorts of issues.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:24, Reply)

shut up and fix it IT monkey

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:25, Reply)

I'm no longer an IT monkey
I don't do the fixing anymore.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:27, Reply)

Indeed
which is why you turn DHCP off before connecting it to the network, or it will proper bugger things up.

You might get away with a proper wireless access point (extender) rather than a router, though, bit more expensive but more designed for the job.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:39, Reply)

Which is why we don't allow students with no knowledge of DHCP to connect their shit to the network.

( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 10:10, Reply)