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What does your company do: BYOD and employee guests

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acole1

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We are working on a new wireless network and this is the prime time to make adjustments to our wireless use policy. Historically the company (which is fairly small) has had a lax policy on security because everyone knew everyone and there was a lot of personal trust. As the company has grown we are looking to create more formal access policies that will work into the future.

Today we have three groups of users who have access to the wireless:
1) Employees with company owned devices
2) Employees with personal devices used for business and personal use - BYOD
3) Employees with personal devices used for personal use only (free wireless internet at work)

How does your company deal with personal devices used for personal use? (Group 3)

Do you deny all access?

If it is allowed on a separate/secure guest network, how do you keep them from eating up all the internet bandwidth? Is it limited per user, or as a group?
 
Create a second SSID and add the Guests to it. Give them no access to the internal network and throttle their bandwidth for internet.

Im currently in the midst of planning the same thing. Anyone with an AD account gets network access (internal) anyone with company owned devices get access to the internal network, anyone who has a device that is not company owned gets no internal access and is routed to the second SSID where there is no communication between inside and out > internet only. On your router/firewall you can throttle the band width.
 
Thanks! What do you throttle your bandwidth to, and how fast is the internet? I'm trying to get an idea of what a "reasonable" limited speed is.

Also, is this a per user limit, or is it for all guest users combined?
 
It should be for all guest users.

If your staff LAN has 20 Mbps bandwidth, then allow guests 5 Mbps. this is enough for basic Web browsing, email, etc. Staff would need more if you have VoIP or other services.
 
I saw the sticky, but that topic was pure BYOD. This is more in the realm of personal devices for personal use, and bandwidth filtering specifically. I probably should have had a better subject name.
 
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