Yup,

We have EduRoam for those who can negotiate WPA configuration, a Cisco VPN service for those who can't, and a username/password restricted service outside the firewall for for the seriously technically challenged or Visitors not entitled to a VPN account.

All work fine with my 770 and on my Zaurus C3100 running pdaXrom or Debian, dependant on my mood...

Cheers,

Alistair

Yes.

We in fact have both a public and private wireless VLAN. The public still uses a (rotating quarterly) 10-digit WEP key, the private uses EAP-FAST TKIP, and thus only our business laptops with the properly installed applications/certs will connect, along with the fact that domain authentication is required; no outsiders have the option to get on the network. With conference rooms and clients stopping in regularly it was essential to separate the two worlds.

So far it has worked fairly well- explaining to clients they need to update their public WEP key is common, but expected- nobody reads what's put directly in front of them these days anyways, do they?

As for my 770, it sits on its stand right next to me so I can cruise, stream, d/l or update as desired...from the public wifi network of course. I'll often find what I want on the desktop, then type in the URL on my 770 to get what I want.

I used the simple method of bribing the comm's guys with beer, and running a squid proxy on my desktop pc to proxy the work NTLM MS proxy and allow me to connect without a username/password. Easy

And probably a nice way to get fired, too.

analogx proxy is smaller and lighter-weight, I help friends and colleagues set it up to allow them to surf from the Palm pilots which only have bluetooth and use ppp over rfcomm.

The place I work at provides it in "select locations", which translate to about 3-4 areas. It's the same story as others have described: lame Cisco VPN with key-fob access that just isn't supported on anything but a PC.
Seems like the more time passes the more marginalized any platform but a PC running the second-latest version of customized Microsoft garbage. Viva la crap.

Larry

Luckily where I work I am the one that makes the decision on wifi. Out of the 30 locations for the company I work for wifi is provided inside and outside the building for 4 of the offices in the US, and inside wifi access for 1 of our Canadian offices. Suprisingly our Home Office usually does not have wifi access, again this is controlled by me. The only time we do have one is for testing, setup or evalution.

Of the different access points I have used the ones I like best so far are the Proxim AP-700 for single wifi access and the Proxim AP-4000 for a mesh network. These can be locked down extremly well, although nothing is hack proof, the security on these are very good and well thought out.

My work (UC Santa Cruz) provides free wifi. You have to sign in with your univeristy account, at a web page, before you can get any real traffic connected. But after that, it's free wifi.

I use my N800 to take notes in meetings, lookup usage stats during meetings, etc. I even used the web interface to one of our server applications to adjust an application parameter, using my N800, in the middle of a conference room while the project manager was asking me "when do you think you can get that done?" :-)

Oh, and, I sometimes use it to get regular work done when the meeting veers off topic, or goes into things that don't apply to me. Read/answer mail, check server health, even edited a couple scripts. Though, to be fair, I sometimes goof off to. IM with friends via pidgin, answer my gf's emails, that kinda thing :-}

cisco vpn is available on linux I believe

I'd have to vote for this one. We have a Corp Wifi, but only corp owned machines are allowed on (read: only corp owned windows machines). Cool productive Nokia IT machines need not apply.

Craig...