Yesterday during chapel I went over to Old Main in order to reboot an access point which wasn’t checking in. I got there, looked where the access point was supposed to be and saw two holes in the wall.
I went back to my office and used some tools I created over the summer (I’ll keep my methods a secret for now) to see if the access point was on campus.
To make a long story short, A few minutes later I called up Ray Thrower in security, and about 20 minutes later Ray walked in my door holding the access point.
I’ve learned a few things from the event.
1. People must really want wireless in the dorms. We knew that wireless didn’t work well in that part of that dorm, and were planning on fixing it next week or so, but someone felt that they needed wireless enough to steal the access point in an academic building by ripping it off the wall.
2. Stealing an access point is stupid. We’ll catch catch you so fast you can’t say “wow that made my coverage better.”