I was able to set up wireless for the SLCC (Salt Lake Community College) wireless network yesterday. I am taking classes from the Weber State University CS department to finish my bachelors and they are on the SLCC campus so I’m able to use their wireless network.

It was simple enough to setup but definately more of a pain than it should have been. They make you go into the library and sign a paper form then they configure an active directory account for you that allows you to login to the wireless network through LEAP. They then make you hand your laptop over to one of their techs to configure LEAP. To do this I had to wait in line for about 20 minutes behind the five other people also trying to get wireless set up.
I can’t help but think this could be much simpler. They could allow you to sign the form electronically then they could create your active directory account through a script and then provide good instructions and a download for installing LEAP. This could save them and many students a great deal of time. Hopefully this is what they will move to in the future since this really is a relatively simple process and shouldn’t be so tedious espicially for a school that says they have ~25000 students between their various campuses. It seems like it would be a reasonable investment to get an automated system setup.

Overall though it is at least nice to have wireless included as part of the fees I’m already paying instead of having to pay YAAF (Yet again another fee).