<p>For prospective students interested in whether a small liberal arts college has the facilities...<a href="http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2007-01-25/news/16762%5B/url%5D">http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2007-01-25/news/16762</a></p>
<p>I'm excited about it being nearly totally wireless by the time I start next year. :D</p>
<p>I do wish they would make the dorms wireless, but hey, can't have it all, haha.</p>
<p>The dorms aren't going to be wireless? I know I heard a while ago that there weren't immediate plans to make the dorms wireless, but this article says "100% of Swarthmore buildings," which sounds like dorms to me. Not that it makes that big a difference, but it would be nice.</p>
<p>I took the following editorial to assume that the dorms aren't/won't be wireless. I might've read it wrong, though. I thought that otherwise, they'd mention something. Maybe not, though! I certainly hope that they become wireless. That'd be very convenient.</p>
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"With our sizable endowment, are we realizing our high-tech potential? Wireless Internet access in all dorms will be a start. "
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<p>Dorms are in the plans for wireless. One of the largest dorms, Parrish Hall, already is wireless. They've now completed wireless in just about every academic and public building. I think they have just a few more athletic buildings to go.</p>
<p>Here's a little secret. Most of the dorms have wireless hubs set up by students. It would be hard to imagine 750 guys and no computer geeks.</p>
<p>...but most student wireless hubs are passworded, because they heavily cap each ethernet socket. Do not expect to get internet access which (when downloading) is all that much faster than a decent cable internet connection. On the other hand, upload speeds are quite a bit better.</p>