At what locations is internet available?
There is internet access (LAN) in all students' rooms, in quiet study areas and some lecture halls. At the same time, there’s also wireless internet access in a lot of places around campus, including the library, lecture halls, quiet study areas, common rooms, campus green and research buildings.
Is there wireless internet available in the student rooms?
Wireless internet is available everywhere in College Nordmetall. In all other colleges, there is only wired internet (via the standard LAN port). Wireless internet is available in all common area, classrooms and other places as mentioned above though.
Are we allowed to setup routers for our own wireless network?
No it is not advised to have a router for internet access sharing in the rooms. This is a violation of the IT Policy that you would agree to abide by on your arrival. It tends to slow down the average internet speed in the colleges. However if its purely personal and in-room usage then it may still be ok.
What are some restrictions on student online activities?
Students are not allowed to use any peer‐to‐peer networking protocols or programs, and Torrents are also banned. If one uses a peer-to-peer network or any torrent sites for download, internet in that room (and if on wireless, the respective campusnet account) gets blocked.
How many internet access points are there in student rooms?
There’s only one! But if there are multiple computers in a room, it’s possible to set up a wireless LAN so internet access can be distributed to each computer.
How reliable is the internet access?
Very reliable. There may be some scheduled down times during maintenance, but they’re not that often and internet is available around the clock.
How important is Internet to life at Jacobs?
It’s one of the most important resources at Jacobs. It’s utilized for all kinds of correspondences between students, faculty, admin, for announcements, home works, research work, and scheduling of classes.
Who can the students contact when they are having trouble with their internet?
There’s an IT support service dedicated to students in the Information Resource Center (IRC).
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It the wireless network 802.11g or n?
ReplyDelete802.11g . Implementing 802.11n is not a possibility due to a high number of user (majority of students also) having incompatible laptops .
ReplyDeleteSpeeds vary in the range of 2-4MBps (effectively 16-32mbps).
just so that you know ..
ReplyDelete8 mbps (small "b" means bits ) = 1 mBps (B for Bytes). We use bytes on computers but the speeds are printed in bits by standard convention. So officially speaking its 32 mbps connection which is the same as 4 MBps connection (4MB file would take one second).