<p>How many ethernet ports are in each room? I'm going to be in a triple.</p>
<p>two. triples need to get a hub.</p>
<p>2, bring a wireless router, it’ll help a lot when you want to use your computer on your bed or outside your room</p>
<p>I got a router and now I’m reading the Ask Housing entries about setting it up. Do I <em>really</em> need to enforce WPA2 and MAC address filtering? I’m just imagining having to tell my neighbors, “Sorry, I can’t give you the password to the wireless” and sounding like a selfish person.</p>
<p>i thought dorms have wireless internet???</p>
<p>You should at the very least have password protection, if people download illegally off your router - you’re on the hook for it. Sure, you can give away access if you’d like but be careful (plus more people = slower connection). WPA2 is… less easily broken than a simple WEP, although I’m sure it’s doable if you really want to hack it.</p>
<p>The lounges typically have wireless, however most of the dorms will not have wireless throughout (I don’t know which ones have access now, since I’ve moved on campus). Sproul might have wireless throughout, but I can’t recall any others.</p>
<p>dylpkls91, they most likely won’t ask for it, i personally used mac address filtering incase other people tried to connect to my router… chances are most triples will have somone bringing a router or have a hub anyway… i haven’t had any neighbors ask for my wireless, and i think i would have given them the password anyway because i had pretty good trustworthy neighbors</p>
<p>josephtheman, some dorms have wireless but in most cases the signal is kinda bad</p>
<p>Definitely password protect it so random people can’t access your internet. As Deuces said, the person who registered the router is responsible for any internet activity that goes through it. You can give the password to people you trust if you want, or just hide the router and disable SSID broadcast (or name it something generic instead of your room number) so people won’t know you have wireless. =P</p>
<p>EDIT: Adding MAC address filtering might be better, since your roommates might give out the password to people.</p>
<p>Alot of the dorms now have the public access wireless internet, and depending on where you live you’ll have access to either the free open wireless or the more secure one where you have to log in.</p>
<p>In the past I’ve used both those wireless connections and routers, but the problem with the UCLA provided wireless connections is that they can get disconnected at random times and be really really slow…I’ve never had a problem with ethernet cable based personal routers, so go with that.</p>
<p>AND yes, password protect it please. This goes for more than just routers though…It’s hilarious when I go on Itunes and see about 20 bajillion shared file libraries, lock it downnnnn everyone!</p>
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<p>No, don’t lock down your itunes library!! Theres nothing wrong with sharing your itunes music - it doesn’t allow downloading, but it will allow anyone else on your floor with itunes to listen to your music (when sharing is enabled, it allows other computers on the same subnet to access and stream your music to their speakers). Its a great way to greatly increase the amount of music you (and your floormates) can listen to. Nothing illegal about it, and it won’t slow your connection down in any way.</p>
<p>Please try to get everyone to share their itunes library!!</p>
<p>yea i love sharing music^^^
my library is going to be bomb next year, 160 gigs of music!
is there a way to take away the thing that limits library visitations to only 5 ppl per day</p>
<p>wow that is a lot of music… i have a hard enough time listening to all my 2000 songs i got so far and thats only 10 gigs lol</p>
<p>for the restriction i thought that was only no more than 5 can stream at the same time… so your computer don’t get over used by others…</p>
<p>Nah I’m all for sharing music, it’s just that some people accidentally set their libraries as public, since I’ve had a couple friends who didn’t even know their libraries were set as public</p>
<p>im pretty sure itunes’ default is set to private libraries or sharing off…
but yea i only listen to like a very small portion of my songs, i took the rest from other people
btw i think your right kick53, its 5 streaming at a time</p>
<p>im confused=
i have an airport express for my mac…is that a router?and will i be able to get wireless in my room?</p>
<p>airport express is not a router… i don’t think it is… i think it only streams music… never looked into those apple products</p>
<p>airport express is a router</p>
<p>i thought airport extreme was the router in the apple line… a huge ripoff price too…</p>
<p>Yes, it’s a router. Plug an Ethernet cable into it, set it up, and you have a wireless network that can connect up to 10 people/devices at once.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the tips about wireless guys. I think I’m gonna use WPA2 and disable SSID broadcast. That should provide a more than reasonable amount of protection (for myself, in a CYA way) and I won’t have to tediously enter another MAC address every time I want to add something to the network.</p>
<p>Extreme has more ethernet ports (for wired LAN), the ability to attach a USB hard drive for NAS, and up to 50 users. Express is like a mini router with one ethernet port (for internet source), USB for printer sharing, headphone jack for AirTunes, and up to 10 users. Extreme probably has better range too.</p>