<p>I just received my netid and looking at the services that cornell provides, it talks about resnet as an ethernet connection. Is this really the only connection in the dorms? Does this mean that there is no wifi in the dorms?</p>
<p>Does anybody presently at Cornell care to shed some light on the issue?</p>
<p>this question has been asked many times…</p>
<p>there is usually no wifi in the dorm common areas…only in your room (ethernet/landline) </p>
<p>there is wifi in the community centers and dining halls…</p>
<p>but trust me…with facebook and whatnot…you’ll want a place where you cant be tempted with internet D:</p>
<p>During move in for this past academic year, there were signs indicating that wifi would be available in some of the older dorms. It hasn’t happened yet, but it looks like it is something they are working on. For Macs airport allows you to make your Mac wireless. For other computers, the ethernet cable is long enough where you can really move to any part of your dorm room with your computer.</p>
<p>when I went on the tour today, they said they were going to be taking out the ethernet from all the dorms and they would all be wifi. that actually worries me a lot because my dad has worked on some off campus student housing that had wifi for all the residents and it was a nightmare. Hope they know what they are doing there. Seems silly to me to take it out if it is already there. I mean definately add the wifi, but don’t take out the ethernet.</p>
<p>^that sounds ridiculous…I have a hard time believing it. Wifi in your room doesn’t matter anyways, just bring your own wireless router and boom you have wifi. Or better yet, bring a desktop with a huge monitor instead of a crappy laptop.</p>
<p>I lived in Court, and we had wireless in the common areas. My room was right next to one, and we had wireless in our rooms because of it! The newest dorms do have hotspots, the older ones Cornell is still working on…</p>
<p>some dorms do some don’t. I got a wireless router so I have wifi in my room so I don’t have to deal with the ethernet cord since I bring my laptop with me to class a lot(it doesn’t extend very well into the common area though since the elevator shaft messes it up, ocassionally I can get a very weak signal there, but usually not)</p>
<p>none in the townhouses really. it was painful.</p>
<p>Get an Apple AirPort, $100, you could make your room wireless (speakers, printer, iPhone, computer…)</p>