Wireless LAN Usage Policy
- Any bonafide student / faculty member / staff of the institute seeking the Wireless LAN Connectivity need to register by filling the Wireless LAN Registration Form. This form can be downloaded from institute website: www.spce.ac.in. The completely filled registration form can be submitted to System Analyst for further processing.
- All registered users can avail the Wireless LAN Connectivity only on registered devices.
- Wireless LAN connectivity will be provided to the desktop PC only if the wired LAN connectivity is not available at the user’s location.
- The content management / access policies enforced by the institute firewall for wired network are applicable to the Wireless LAN.
- Use of Wireless LAN is allowed only for academic / administrative / research activities. Access to any non-academic / social networking sites, chat servers / newsgroups etc. and any similar sites is strictly forbidden. Users violating these norms will lose their right to access internet from the institute network and disciplinary action will be initiated against them, by the appropriate authority.
- Users are forbidden to send unsolicited mails, Spam mails, commercial / promotional / non- academic messages and virus infected contents on the network.
- Access to Wireless LAN is permitted only for the legal activities defined by the law of the land. Anyone found using the facility for anti-social and anti-national activities will fetch legal action from appropriate law enforcing agencies as per the law.
- Maintaining the confidentially of the username and password from the moment it’s allotted to the user would be responsibility of the respective user. The user shall be responsible for any misuse of internet facility from his / her account.
- Users are advised to use their devices on institute network with appropriate updated antivirus software, and should attempt to keep the system free from viruses, worms, trojans, and other similar programs.
- Institute will not be liable for damages (if any) arising from the use of this facility. Users have to make their own arrangements for the security of their devices.
- The users are advised to use the available internet bandwidth sparingly. The institute reserves the right to terminate any wireless session that is restricting other users’ access by consuming bandwidth beyond certain limits.
- The users are forbidden to use their own Wireless Access Points/Wireless Routers in institute Wireless LAN coverage area. The system is capable of detecting such rouge APs and users violating this norm will lose their right to access internet from the institute network and disciplinary action will be initiated, against them by appropriate authority.
- The Wireless LAN connectivity is an add-on facility provided by the institute, completely at its discretion, and cannot be construed as right of access. The institute reserves the right to block, suspend, or terminate user access to the network at any time for any reason.
- The norms/policy may change as and when it is considered appropriate and new policies or the changes in policy will take effect immediately after a brief communication.