Wireless Networking → Any Universities pushing Wireless Internet Access?

The University I'm attending is pushing for wireless internet access for students and faculties. By next year, they will increase wireless coverage by 30%. Check out their current wireless coverage HERE!!!

This is becoming more and more common, which is a good thing. Cisco and the University of Akron (one of the top Universities in Polymer science in the world) is pushing for full wireless coverage.

And by full I mean 5.4million square feet... they will even be including the football stadium. Gotta love it.

Here is an article on Cisco's page which tells you more. Wireless is available in some areas today, and seems to be expanding daily.

»www.cisco.com/warp/publi ··· w_cp.htm

Emory University in Atlanta, GA has many wireless AP across campus. Most of the best ones are in the main library. The business school went wireless about a year ago.

Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC has FULL campus wireless, I believe, in all residence halls and common/outdoor areas. Visit »www.wfu.edu/ for more information. The wireless connectivity is part of the "every student gets a laptop program by the Class of 2000" initiative that started back in either 1997 or 1998.

IronChefMorimoto

The University of Pittsburgh is starting to set up wireless networks across campus as well. In Pitt's School of Information Sciences (where I am a student), they've had a wireless network in the building for a few years now I think (our Telecommunications program is one of the best in the country).

Yup!! I'm enjoying it as aswell!! Practically everyone in campus taking full advantage of this. We even have laptop labs that are running wireless. No lan cables any longer to harness. Practially, everyone has a laptop on campus, could be the special discounts we get on Apple and Dell products.

Yes, I'm enjoying it!!

At the University of Tennessee Knoxville, we have about 1100 +- AP's with more on the way. About 80 buildings are wireless right now with 20 or so more coming in the next phase. It's much better now to go anywhere and be able to work.:D

check coverage here »wireless.utk.edu/coverage.html

WOW!!!! Thats some major coverage shaggyat!!! Even your stadium is well covered.

MIT coverage if very extensive....
»web.mit.edu/network/wire ··· ons.html

Its available in the classrooms, libraries and public spaces. And I've yet to find a spot indoors or out that I can't get a connection (except for a non-windowed room and some basement areas)

-dave-

I live in Boston. Between Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, and the 150 other colleges in town, I can go pretty much anywhere in the city and find wireless access. 50% of it is from the school themselves, and the other 50% it seems are WAP's in student dorms or apartments. It's everywhere here!

Florida International University is:

»www.fiu.edu/

You can borrow a card for 4 hours for free, they use Cisco equipment, and the cards are Cisco AiroNet.

Or, if you have your own 802.11b/WiFi card, you just have to add your MAC address to their DHCP server (all done online), and all you have to do is boot-up.

-- Elias

Funny... I'm sitting in math class right now posting in this thread. The whole campus isn't covered »www.tis.utexas.edu/netwo ··· age.html . Here's a flash map of the campus »www.utexas.edu/maps/flas ··· dex.html .

Cal Poly Pomona is starting to roll out, supposedly the whole campus will be covered by fall next year. Right now it's just in the library and a couple engineering buildings.

My university uses wireless as the main way to connect students. It has been an ongoing project for about 2 years.

»www.valdosta.edu/wireless

We currently have about 1100 students on the wireless network.

said by gmlasam:

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The University I'm attending is pushing for wireless internet access for students and faculties. By next year, they will increase wireless coverage by 30%. Check out their current wireless coverage HERE!!!

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Hehe, right now I'm in marketing class, on the WLAN on my laptop posting this.

-- Elias

Elias said...

"right now I'm in marketing class, on the WLAN on my laptop posting this."

Hey, pay attention to the lecturer...

I took a few courses at FIU back in the mid-80's...Congrats on the very 1st football victory for the new team...

said by SoonerAl:

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Elias said...

"right now I'm in marketing class, on the WLAN on my laptop posting this."

Hey, pay attention to the lecturer...

I took a few courses at FIU back in the mid-80's...Congrats on the very 1st football victory for the new team...

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Thanks!

It's cool that we won our first game, and not a fluke, either, 27 - 3!

It's cool being able to type-up notes, and open websites related to what the teacher's talking about.

For instance, he was talking about the LandsEnd website, and how it's been very successful, and he's like "Any of you kids with laptops seen it?"

So it makes things interesting. Yeah, and you can surf DSLR and be on Trillian at the same time.

-- Elias

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Or, if you have your own 802.11b/WiFi card, you just have to add your MAC address to their DHCP server (all done online), and all you have to do is boot-up.

-- Elias

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order for you to register your 802.11b/WiFi card, don't you need an account, like a faculty or student ID number from the university. You may get away with borrowing and using a student or faculty's registered wifi card, but people that are not enrolled in the university or not a staff would not be able to use the school's wireless system.

Well, this is how it works at my University.

said by gmlasam:

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order for you to register your 802.11b/WiFi card, don't you need an account, like a faculty or student ID number from the university. You may get away with borrowing and using a student or faculty's registered wifi card, but people that are not enrolled in the university or not a staff would not be able to use the school's wireless system.

Well, this is how it works at my University.

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Yes, in order to register, you need to go to their Automated IP Registration System (AIRS), and log-into the page.

Then, you answer some question, and give them your MAC address.

You need to have a valid Solix account, which is some sort of old-school Linux shell. Anyway, you use the user/pass for that account to log-into the AIRS system.

Once you submit your MAC address, it takes 15 minutes to take effect.

-- Elias

said by elias:

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You need to have a valid Solix account, which is some sort of old-school Linux shell. Anyway, you use the user/pass for that account to log-into the AIRS system.

Once you submit your MAC address, it takes 15 minutes to take effect.

-- Elias

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Very clever!!!

»www.duq.edu

Duquesne University - Pittsburgh

We started a pilot program, just to see how much it would strain the network / fix bugs on the new backbone. Opening to public beta testing Sept 15th.

We have decent coverage here at the University of Florida in Gainesville. There is indoor coverage in some of the bigger buildings, and outdoor/open space coverage for the common places where people like to sit under a tree with a laptop.
»net-services.ufl.edu/pro ··· map.html

we might get wireless coverage at pvphs....

We have wireless at Lawrence Technological University.

»www.ltu.edu

A list of rooms and building served at Iowa State univ.
»www.tele.iastate.edu/tel ··· ooms.htm