Wireless Web in Hamilton Library

quagmire69

Is it just my laptop or do other people have problems have connecting to the TCDWiFi network in the Ham Lib. I have no problems in the Art's block libraries.

Does anybody have a solution or know whats wrong?

Am i the only one?

Contact ISS?

quagmire69

did that. couldnt give me an answer.

mathew

You're not the only one. Wireless in the Hamilton in general is terrible. It takes many many tries to get it to connect. I frequently have to spend over 10mins trying to connect to it.

Jonathan

Join the club... Threads every few days about how bad it is!!

disco--dave

The really irritating thing is that there's no coverage directly under the 'wireless hotspot' sign upstairs!!

I think it's ridiculous that one can get coverage outside the Pav but not in the Hamilton library.... something should be done!

cianclarke

The entire hamilton and parts of the lloyd have been utter ****e lately - and for some reason the arts block almost always works.
There are loads of wierd quirks with the network which ISS have no answers for - quite a few XP laptops can't connect using the built in client, stuff like that...

lucernarian

I'm experiencing some pretty bizarre behaviour in the Hamilton library. The only help ISS could offer was to change the Wifi mode to 802.11b, which did nothing. I managed to get connected after only a couple of minutes of trying on Friday, ironically there was only 1 bar signal strength and while it occasionally disconnected, it reconnected quickly. First time I got it working in the library since 2 weeks ago.

I find it worse when there's more wifi networks being detected.

It's confusing to see people beside you surfing away without issues, and you and other people you know cannot find TCDwifi, or cannot get an IP address, or their wifi card mysteriously switches itself off. I've been told by other people that they turn on their laptops in the Hamilton and it simply works.

I can't find any pattern, beyond that it's more common with Vista than XP, and macs seem to work without issues. I don't know about linux.

Jonathan

The trick to accessing the TCD "wireless" network is to get a magical yellow cable and a find one of few lan sockets that work

lucernarian

Ah yeah, I used that yesterday but it took about 15 minutes to get a renewed IP address after authentication. Maybe it was because it was 4pm but the self-service NAC logs in quicker in Trinity Hall than in the library.

I don't understand why there's only about 30 or so working ethernet sockets in a library with apparently dodgy wireless! I understand that the sockets are already serviced by cables.

disco--dave

Oh yeah! none of the sockets for the ethernet cables seem to work either (well around the maths/phyics section...)