Wireless network down recently?

ghostdancer

anyone having trouble connecting to the wireless networks around campus?

i bought a laptop there a few weeks back, and came into dcu with it last week and it automatically found the networks, and connected fine. i put in the proxy details for the dcu server and could browse outside pages no bother.

this week it doesn't seem to be able to find any networks. tried in both CA building and Henry Grattan and no joy

i disabled my firewall and had a go, and it still can't find any.

went to Network Connections and tried repairing the Wireless Card but it goes to "Connecting to Wireless Network" and then fails....


anyone know what i could be doing wrong? or is the wireless network just a bit tempermental this week?

should i bother going down to CSD?

Suaimhneach

CSD are probably having enough hassle at the moment. The network will be fixed when they can, I am sure they have loads of people on it.

They're probably bogged down in this:

Hello All

There has been an email sent out to many undergraduates titled:Account Alert.
It asks you to click on a link supplied in the email and then to enter your
accout details. Please note that CSD will never send an email like this.
Clicking on this link will infect the machine you are using with a virus.
We would ask you to please just delete the email and do not even open it.
The sender was a security@mail.dcu.ie.

Again we would ask you not to click on this link just delete the email and
remind you once more that at no time would anyone in CSD send an email like
this

Finally if you have clicked on the link in the email entitled Account Alert
please call into one of the student helpdesks so we can see about removing
the virus from your machine. They are located in C215 top floor of the henry
grattan or on the ground floor of the library. These desks are open from
8:30 to 8:00 monday to friday and 12:00 to 3:00 on saturdays.

Regards
Student Helpdesk

ghostdancer

i'm just wondering though if it's working for other people though or if i'm after changing some settings since connected last week.

or if anyone had a similar problem like this before and knows how to fix it if it's actually something i'm after doing wrong....

Ferror

The network is working, however the proxy auto config file is not.

You'll need to specify the proxy settings manually for both laplan 2.0 (and school of computing, *if you use it*)

Once you do this it seems to work as normal, still slower than dial up in the nursing building though

Good luck...

Sonderval

You don't need to specify the proxy.pac anymore. Should run fine with just the auto detect enabled.

And yes, they were quite busy with that virus thing.