Monday, February 4, 2008
Four more buildings on campus went wireless last week.
Malott Hall, Haworth Hall, Summerfield Hall and Murphy Hall received wireless Internet access as part of the two-year KU wireless initiative.
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The goal of the project is to achieve wireless coverage in 100 percent of the classrooms and labs on campus
— Bill Myers, director of assessment and outreach for information services
The initiative, which costs $2.6 million, will add 700 wireless access points to the 218 existing ones.
The focus, said Bill Myers, director of assessment and outreach for information services, was on buildings that had the most classroom and lab space.
First, a survey of each building is done to decide where to put the access points. Next, the access points are installed, along with any other necessary infrastructure. The points are then activated.
Wireless internet, or Wi-Fi, works by sending data through radio waves. A wireless adapter transforms information from the computer into a radio signal and sends it to a router, which is physically hooked into the Internet.
The process works in reverse to send information from the Internet to the computer.
The survey stage for these four buildings began in fall 2007.
Myers said Student Senate contributed $1.3 million of the funds.
“The goal of the project is to achieve wireless coverage in 100 percent of the classrooms and labs on campus,” Myers said.
He also said that the residence halls were not included in the initiative.
“Student Senate identified academic areas as the top priority for wireless coverage,” Myers said. In order for the residence halls to become wireless, funding would have to be secured. Myers said this was not a priority with the current plan.
Ray Wittlinger, student body vice president, said that the Student Senate approved the $1.3 million in spring 2007. The money came from a reserve account.
Wittlinger said Senate looked at campus, talked to students and conducted surveys to decide what areas to make wireless.
Through these surveys, Senate decided that classrooms and labs were the most important to students.
Wittlinger also said that while students were interested in having wireless Internet in the residence halls, several factors made it not feasible.
The amount of traffic, Wittlinger said, might overload the routers and cause problems. The infrastructure required to support a wireless residence hall would be expensive.
It would cost about the same to make the residence halls wireless as it would to make the rest of cam-
pus wireless.
The KU Wireless Initiative is expected to be finished in July 2008, with “Miscellaneous Common Areas” going online on July 14.
The next buildings to become wireless are the Art and Design Building, Blake Hall, Lindley Hall, and Robinson Center. They are scheduled to be activated this month.
—Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
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