The BHM Staff WiFi network was taken down recently in order to upgrade and secure the district’s system. This change came because students within the district, who were never meant to join this WiFi, were using the network in significant numbers and their connections caused the network to slow down while bringing up security problems.
Students were able to connect to the network after obtaining the password from friends, but after the removal of BHM Staff at the high school in late January, these problems were fixed with the new WiFi, “Authorized BHM User”.
“Authorized BHM User provides individual logins and is secured by certificates,” said Technician Mandy Green. “We can control which IP subnet a user or computer gets put into based on the computer name or username that he or she logs in with. Security is enhanced because everyone uses their own account.”
The removal of BHM Staff began in September 2018 in the districts elementary schools and was eventually removed at the high school in January 2019.
