College Wifi - Need Advise

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Speedz

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Under some new rule enforced by college, we need to provide our MAC Address to the network administrator to be able to use wifi. We already have separate Id's for the the Internet Filtering Service Cyberoam being used.

The obvious question is, can the college be justified in making such demands in the name of "Data Flooding". And secondly, I know there are n things that can be done with the system MAC Address, but on a realistic level, what are the possible hazards?

Lastly, for a building of a 100 students, what do you think should be the minimum bandwidth allocated ?
 
Speedz said:
Under some new rule enforced by college, we need to provide our MAC Address to the network administrator to be able to use wifi. We already have separate Id's for the the Internet Filtering Service Cyberoam being used.

The obvious question is, can the college be justified in making such demands in the name of "Data Flooding". And secondly, I know there are n things that can be done with the system MAC Address, but on a realistic level, what are the possible hazards?

Lastly, for a building of a 100 students, what do you think should be the minimum bandwidth allocated ?
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It's a pretty normal request. What things can be done with your MAC address?

If you are really worried, use a MAC ID Changer. Change your MAC ID to something else when in college and use that for accessing the net. When you are done, change back.
 
Its a pretty normal thing. Our college also has students registering their Ethernet adapter's MAC ID in order to use the Internet from dorm rooms. Each room has 2 LAN ports. Its only to do a pseudo static IP mapping in their DHCP server. What it does is that whenever u logon to the network, it will always give the same IP address after verifying ur MAC address in its database. It makes the process of allocating address faster and well managed as otherwise the server will always have to lookup the range of available free IPs and provide u a new one every time. Moreover this kinda mapping works for students, u can make dedicated DC hubs on ur campus itself ;)
 
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