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[Tsutarja]

There's wifi all over our campus, but some spots it doesn't function as well as other spots..

 

[Legendary Silke]

The Wi-Fi networks in my university's campus occasionally seem to be stuck timing out.

Sometimes I think the games I'm playing are somewhat CPU-limited... turning up graphics options have negligible effect on performance.

 

[Raine]

Being that I attend a college that focuses mainly on technology, the Wi-Fi networks are generally very efficient and functional majority of the time. I've never had a problem with internet, but they advise us to have an ethernet cable just in case. All my classes have its material posted online, so I'm on it the entire duration I'm at school. One of the benefits of going to this college :P

 

[donavannj]

WiFi at some of the community colleges in the area here is fantastic... as long as there's not 70 other people on it. At others, it's total crap because the buildings they are in are wonderful at blocking radio signals.

 

[Legendary Silke]

I still enjoy myself some nice campus Internet. I just need to remind myself that I really should bring my own Ethernet cables...

 

[donavannj]

Some campuses have mac address lockdowns on their ethernet ports, though. Many around here do this for security reasons, since the ethernet ports are often tied into the administrative side of the school's network.

 

[Legendary Silke]

Some campuses have mac address lockdowns on their ethernet ports, though. Many around here do this for security reasons, since the ethernet ports are often tied into the administrative side of the school's network.

It's pretty cool that mine doesn't... and they have Ethernet ports littered all over :3

 

[donavannj]

I wonder if they're aware of that backdoor and have it there in the event of needing to shutdown the app remotely or at the station itself.

 

[Tsutarja]

That's the Wi-Fi speed right now here from the campus library. There's not an ethernet port in sight either. But like Raine, I'll always carry an ethernet cable with me just in case.

 

[donavannj]

Oh mercy. At my technical college, I was at least able to get 4 Mbps to my laptop 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe even higher. A lot of local government agencies here have spent money to get themselves fiber optic rings between their buildings, and given that the college I went to has two campuses in the same county, it's likely they have at least a decent connection and are hopefully not running an MPLS line as the backbone of their WAN.

Though I also chose to sit in the usually empty cafeteria rather than the Student Lounge or the Library. Usually always room there as opposed to at the other two.

 

[donavannj]

That keylogging stuff could get that school in trouble if someone manages to get themselves compromised and blames it on the school.

Wait, they give teachers admin access? That's a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

I thought colleges left it up to the student to do what they need to to for classes, without restriction and monitoring. Why are they babying you like high schoolers, Jordan?

My school's Wi-Fi isn't too shabby (although I haven't brought my own PC to do a speed test), and when I connect I always log in with someone else's username and password, ssince I got into some trouble and was put on a watchlist for trying to break their web filter last semester. I can do that since about 80% of students don't change their password from the default (passwordD8), and the username is firstname.mi.lastname@_____.org. I just have to get someone's middle initial and I can use them as a shield for whatever I want to do (which is mostly normal stuff).

Funny thing is, they pay next to zero mind to the majority of students that have a range of no-nos on their school computers, ranging from video games to proxies to even pornography (oh my!). And yet they get on me for being on a message board like PC, and confiscate my laptop for the entire semester over it. Ironic, huh?

 

[Legendary Silke]

Maybe I should be glad that I can use my own setup for pretty much everything...

 

[Tsutarja]

My college is unfiltered with internet, it's just so ♥♥♥♥ing slow! I can at least use Skype and IRC from my college's internet.

Back then when I was still in elementary/middle/high school, their network could only be browsed on with ports 80 and 443 and the filtering for a majority of the time I went to school was used by Websense. However, my senior year, they switched from Websense to iBoss for filtering, and the latter allowed for staff to login and bypass the filter for sites like Youtube, and the teachers used their computer logins. When iBoss filtering came to be, it had flaws. For the first few days, I was able to browse PC from school, but that eventually got blocked.. but the flaw came to be that I was able to watch Youtube from the iOS app (I didn't have my tablet at the time), but it was filtered in the web browser.

 

[Zet]

That's the Wi-Fi speed right now here from the campus library. There's not an ethernet port in sight either. But like Raine, I'll always carry an ethernet cable with me just in case.

Jesus. And I thought we had it bad here in Australia @_@

My college is unfiltered with internet, it's just so ♥♥♥♥ing slow! I can at least use Skype and IRC from my college's internet.

Back then when I was still in elementary/middle/high school, their network could only be browsed on with ports 80 and 443 and the filtering for a majority of the time I went to school was used by Websense. However, my senior year, they switched from Websense to iBoss for filtering, and the latter allowed for staff to login and bypass the filter for sites like Youtube, and the teachers used their computer logins. When iBoss filtering came to be, it had flaws. For the first few days, I was able to browse PC from school, but that eventually got blocked.. but the flaw came to be that I was able to watch Youtube from the iOS app (I didn't have my tablet at the time), but it was filtered in the web browser.

The job searching place I go to has websense. It was off 2 weeks ago, and I had the greatest time being able to visit the sites I liked... but last week it was turned back on, and reddit became blocked... kinda, it was listed under hobbies but we could click continue anyway.

 

[donavannj]

Jesus. And I thought we had it bad here in Australia @_@



The job searching place I go to has websense. It was off 2 weeks ago, and I had the greatest time being able to visit the sites I liked... but last week it was turned back on, and reddit became blocked... kinda, it was listed under hobbies but we could click continue anyway.

As if most people go onto Reddit for job hunting, haha. :P

There are several subreddits dedicated to that, though. I'm subscribed to quite a few of them.

 

[Tsutarja]

I never even realized reddit had a section for job postings/job hunting, tbh o.o

Of course though my brother always tells me to look around on craigslist for job postings as well

 

[Zet]

As if most people go onto Reddit for job hunting, haha. :P

There are several subreddits dedicated to that, though. I'm subscribed to quite a few of them.

I never even realized reddit had a section for job postings/job hunting, tbh o.o

Of course though my brother always tells me to look around on craigslist for job postings as well

I don't think Reddit does have job hunting boards. I just go on it because I do my required job searching within 20-40 minutes, and I can't leave until 11am(I get there when it opens at 9am). So sitting around doing nothing gets boring very easily.

 

[donavannj]

Occasionally there are recruitments posted up to certain subreddits. Like SysAdmin and some of the other IT ones. The general /r/jobs is a solid place to get advice on questions about interviews and application questions. Substantial US bias in those subreddits, though.

 

[Legendary Silke]

Something tells me that I won't be really missing Facebook messaging integration in Windows Phone. I've just switched to the just-released Facebook Messenger. (At least, pretty much everything!)