June 2, 2006

Walling Out Wireless Networks Is No Easy Task

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Setting up a "kill switch" for wireless Internet access in classrooms is neither easy nor entirely effective.

At Bentley College, where officials installed such a system in about 60 classrooms last fall, experts initially said it could not be done. The problem is that even if a professor turns off the classroom's wireless router, students could potentially pick up the signal from a nearby classroom. Many professors have called for such a system anyway, because they want to have the

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