This article is for students who live in the North Campus residence halls, and will discuss upgrades to the ITS is upgrading the wireless service in residence halls, in addition to the procedure for connecting many of the Storrs campus residence halls. This article provides more information about the update and how to connect to the new access pointsequipment.
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Information Technology Services (ITS) is upgrading the wireless service in the North Campus residence halls. With the goal of providing students with the highest quality experience, ITS will be placing a small, current generation wireless access point in every other room to improve wireless connectivity for all rooms.
New Wireless Access
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The new equipment will be installed over an existing jack and includes a wired port, located on the bottom of the device.
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Points
To improve the performance of wireless service, ITS is installing new wireless access points in more rooms in the University's residence halls. Depending on the cabling infrastructure and the configuration of the rooms, this new equipment is installed in every room or every other room over an existing jack. The new wireless access points looks like a small white box, as shown in the image below.
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If your room has a new access point installed, the the ports on the old jack may be blocked. This is deliberate, and is meant to prevent further use of the old jack. |
Plugging in for Wired Service
Rather than connecting your Ethernet cable to the wall jack, you will be connecting it to the new wireless access point. The Ethernet port is located at Plug your Ethernet cable into the bottom of the device, and has a green tab underneath it, as shown below:access point.
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| For residents of rooms that do not have a new access point, you will continue to connect to the wired network in the usual fashion--that is, by plugging one end of your Ethernet cable into the wall jack, and the other end into the Ethernet port on your computer. |
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Upgraded Buildings
The buildings listed below will be upgraded by August 13th, 2020.
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