<p>Is the access in your room hardwired or wireless. Also, if hardwired are you allowed to add a router for multiple wired access, wireless, VOIP phone?</p>
<p>Is the cable service in the room from Comcast something else? If Comcast is this service free or do you have to subscribe and pay?</p>
<p>The entire campus is wireless, but there are multiple network ports in every room. I don't know whether you are allowed to add a router, but when has something as silly as that ever stopped college students?</p>
<p>I'm not sure what provider the cable in the rooms comes from (I think Comcast), but, yes, it is free.</p>
<p>It's a gigabit connection though, so you can't complain, eh?</p>
<p>But, can you have a router legally?</p>
<p>unless you were messing up other people's stuff, I can't imagine anyone caring or knowing.</p>
<p>How common is it to have TVs in the dorm rooms, rather than (or in addition to) having them in some common room? My daughter really doesn't want to have a TV in her room and plans to mention that on her roommate questionnaire, but she'd be happy to have one available in a common room where lots of people can watch together. Does that happen...and how common are TVs in their dorm rooms?</p>
<p>It will depend on what your dorm layout is. DD's suite had small rooms,the beds were all lofted, and very large common room. The TV was in the common room.</p>
<p>All of the college commons have TVs, and people usually gather there to watch everything from football to Project Runway. Just tell her to put on her confidential roommate questionnaire that she doesn't want a TV in her room, and the O-Week coordinators will try to take that into account (though other factors may outweigh that single one when they're picking roommates).</p>
<p>I'm apparently exactly the opposite of your daughter; our suite had three (side-by-side) TVs in it last year!</p>
<p>It'll depend on how your room layout is. If you have a common room, most people end up having a small TV there (at least in my experience), and most people didn't have a TV in their bedroom. So I'd put that on the form--you don't mind a TV in the common room, just not in the bedroom. </p>
<p>I'm at Wiess, and freshmen are in suites with 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, and a common room, which has the TV. That worked out really well, and I know some of the other colleges have similar room layouts (though not all do).</p>
<p>The campus cable provider is Phonoscope, and the fee for TV and internet access will be included in the bill or rolled into some other housing-related fee.</p>