Wireless Network

<p>How is Cornell’s wireless network? What percentage of the campus is covered? Are there plans for expansion?</p>

<p>It is limited to the libraries and other buildings, excluding the dorms :(</p>

<p>Can you get any reception on any of the quads?</p>

<p>Some dorm floors have wireless. Also, if theres still the wireless=no bandwith charge loophole, convince your hall to chip in, and get a geek (or really anyone who knows anything about computers) to set up a wireless network independently. for the A/G router among 20 people thats like 7 bucks a piece. use those leadership skills that got you into cornell</p>

<p>Red Rover locations and a map of covered buildings (and of course the immediate area outside in most cases): <a href="http://www.cit.cornell.edu/redrover/maps/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cit.cornell.edu/redrover/maps/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>wait..I thought we could get on the internet from the dorms if we just had an ethernet card...</p>

<p>There is conventional internet (wired) available in all dorm rooms. You will be able to get on this from any comp with an ethernet card. For wireless, there is the aforementioned Red Rover network. This doesnt really cover the residential buildings (because you already have hardwired internet in your room), but the community centers (like RPU) and major classroom buildings or campus areas (Kennedy or the engineering quad for example) are on the wireless network.</p>

<p>sparticus800, can you elaborate on setting up a wireless network?</p>

<p>Also, if the map says that access is available on a certain floor, is it also available on other floors?</p>

<p>What percent of campus is covered?</p>

<p>You can get wireless access in the Arts Quad near Olin Library!</p>

<p>Sparticus, if someone were to set up a wireless network, from where would he draw the connection? He couldn't base it off of any of the lines from any of the students or else they would get billed for the excess usage anyway. In other words, I'm not quite sure what it is that you are suggesting. I was planning on just downloading stuff in the background when I'm in the libraries or wherever studying.</p>

<p>thank you biophillic, good to know.</p>

<p>The best loophole that I know of for avoiding bandwidth charges is simply using DC++ for all of your media downloads.</p>

<p>Why wouldn't DC++ count towards bandwidth?</p>

<p>I think you can set it to connect to only local peers so you're not charged for outgoing access (correct me if I'm wrong).</p>

<p>That's absolutely correct. You arent charged for intranet bandwidth. So if computer A in the townhouses transfers 8GB to computer B in Court, it isnt counted in the NUBB tally.</p>

<p>Are there known plans to exand the wireless network, as in other universities?</p>

<p>yes, they aren't specific as far as I know, but the wireless network is planned to expand alot according to Grysko from the c/o 2009 website.</p>

<p>In the past, wireless usage was supposed to be not counted against the bandwidth limitations--my aforementioned loophole. Any person in your dorm, preferrably someone central to the area you want to cover (maximize people covered/hence minimize cost in hardware purchase) would have the wireless router set up on his ethernet hookup. He would wire (actual wires!) his computer into it, and there would be no difference in terms of how he hooked up except a wireless router in between his comp. and the wall.</p>

<p>Anyone in range (a few hundred feet) who had a wireless card could connect. You could even encrypt your network to prevent unwanted people from hooking up, but IMO that's selfish, and just a pain in the ass to configure everyone's computer.</p>

<p>This is all, of course, pending wireless still not counting against your bandwidth limit.</p>

<p>How would the central person get wireless connectivity if it is not available in the dorms?</p>

<p>Quote: "Any person in your dorm, preferrably someone central to the area you want to cover (maximize people covered/hence minimize cost in hardware purchase) would have the wireless router set up on his ethernet hookup. He would wire (actual wires!) his computer into it"</p>

<p>It helps to read previous posts.....that's how these "thread" things work you know.</p>

<p>Sparticus, would all of that really be necessary? From what I've seen, Cornell just has these wireless router things on the walls in buildings which are wireless-capable. If the dorm had wireless access, then each individual user could just tap into it individually...</p>

<p>The thing is most dorms don't have wireless built in...</p>