Technology Services

Tag: Wireless

  • Would you like better cell phone coverage?

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    svogt

    What can Technology Services do about poor cell phone coverage? Unfortunately, not much. However, you may be able to improve it yourself! The most important thing to do, is to contact your cellular provider and let them know your coverage isn’t very good. If more people call them and let them know, this gives them…

  • Increased Wireless Access: Fine Arts/SSC

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    nsonsteb

    Due to increased demand, our system administrators have been busy during spring break adding wireless access points. So hopefully now, more and more people can utilize their laptops and wireless internet enabled iPods/cell phones in these areas. GTS has recently installed access points in: Schaefer Arts Buildling First floor 2nd floor Lecture Hall Schaefer Music…

  • Wireless Internet demand in unexpected places met

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    sommere

    We have a goal of covering every building on campus with wireless network access. We aren’t quite there yet and we occasionally get requests for wireless access points to cover parts of campus that we haven’t covered yet. Sometimes those requests are for places we never would have thought of as “places someone would want…

  • Wireless Improvements to Come

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    sommere

    We have discovered that during peek usage times, our wireless network is too big. We just have too many users on one network. We split out the wireless in the library into its own network named “GACLibrary” and it seems to have made a huge difference. In addition, our current system of dealing with guests…

  • Wireless in the Library

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    nsonsteb

    In an attempt to improve wireless in the Library, you will need to connect to the GAClibrary network instead of GACwireless network. We are in the testing phase, please let us know if things are working better or worse. You can email the Technology Helpline (helpline@gustavus.edu) with your comments.

  • Wireless added to Fine Arts Music

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    doachs

    A new wireless access point was added in the basement of the music building to help give coverage to the areas near the Bjorling concert hall.  My initial test show that this one access point covers the hallway from the south end of the Bjorling concert hall all the way to the middle of the…

  • Better GACWireless for Uhler Hall

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    doachs

    This summer the network in Uhler Hall was upgraded with all new wires. As part of the update, many more jacks were installed. Each suite should now have at least one jack per person living there. Some of the other jacks that were installed are now connected to new wireless access points. Last year Uhler…

  • Network Upgrades

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    doachs

    Over the past couple of weeks, we have made some improvements to the campus computer network. The most noticeable of these will be for the residents of Pittman. Four more Wi-Fi access points were installed to help improve the wireless coverage in that dorm. Less noticeable changes were made to the wired network in Complex.…

  • Wireless Status Page

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    sommere

    Did you know that there is a web site to check whether your GACwirless access point is working? You can go to http://stats.it.gac.edu/wireless-watch/status.php to see a list of most of Gustavus’ wireless access points and their status. This year about 70% of students on Gustavus’ network have made use of the wireless network. In fact,…

  • Who are the people on your network

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    sommere

    As people have been moving in and registering their computers, I’ve been collecting some statistics. A week after move in things seem to be settling down. (Although we just added access to the 7th street houses, which house about 30 students total.) Here are some of the more interesting stats: Of the students living in…