[tech] Wireless in UniSFA

Samuel Shenton samuel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Tue May 14 23:11:35 WST 2013


I have heard that there are many black spots in UniSFA regarding the 
wireless but not much other than that, [BG3] and I will take the plunge 
into the darkness tomorrow to find out exactly what the situation is.

[SAS]

On Tue, 14 May 2013, Matt Didcoe wrote:

> Apparently a request has come in for 'decent'[1] wireless coverage in
> UniSFA.
> I would have thought given the construction of the building that we'd be
> getting signal in there already so it seems a bit odd (but I don't dare set
> foot in UniSFA to actually check - can anyone comment reliably on this one?)
> 
> If there's not actually signal in there, what are peoples thoughts on
> improving it? If we do, we want the ability to cover the same features as
> present:
> 
>  - 802.1x
>  - Support for VLANs
>  - Other things I've forgotten probably :P
> 
> Realise this isn't a lot of detail, hopefully [SAS] can chime in with more!
> Apparently there's some money though if we do want to address the issue.
> 
> [MRD]
> 
> [1] Define: decent [2]
> [2] No really, what the fuck is decent, streaming HD video, gaming on your
> laptop with no lag, downloading MLP?
> 
>


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