Re:WiFi Question (Score 1)

How do you get your card to connect to the access point of choice?

Yeah, the article seemed to be lacking the important details. My understanding is that you tell your wireless card to talk only to connections with a given name, and provided the university did a smart job setting up their wireless, the students should be able to roam while staying connected to the network with the given name, regardless the strength of the other access points.

It seems the real problem is interferance due to people setting up access points on the same channel. I believe 802.11 b/g has 11 channels, so it would make sense if the university allowed students to use a few of these channels for private networks while reserving the rest for themselves. Then again, perhaps too much work to police this when you can just ban it outright.