DIT Site Down-WTF??

givyjoe81

What in God's name is the story with the DIT website... Everything seems to be down so far today. Will we have to wait til tm til the IT staff come back off their lovely long easter break?!

Christ Iv have literally never seen a web site worth its salt going down like that, and got exams next monday so need access to the databases etc. Surely one of the IT staff are on call to press the bleeding reset button...:rolleyes:

sickle

email sent last week:

Dear Students,

An upgrade to the core DIT network is scheduled to take place in Easter
week, on Tuesday 14th April. This is to facilitate the increased
performance and availability of the network service for internet access
and to enhance connectivity between our various DIT centres. This
upgrade is one of a series of network upgrades for all centres, funded
via the Information Services Steering Committee.

While this work is being completed, all campus network services will be
affected, including remote access (ie, from anywhere outside DIT campus
buildings) for staff and students to:

o myDIT.ie, incorporating email

o Library services

o webcourses

Arrangements are in place for the www.dit.ie website to be available
during this time. We are working with colleagues in the Library
Service to facilitate service provision for apprentices and the
relevant members of staff on that day in Kevin Street and Bolton Street.

The Information Services team regrets any inconvenience this downtime
may cause and would like to assure colleagues that both staff and
students will benefit from an enhanced network service once this work
has been successfully completed.



Regards,

Information Services

Creamy Goodness

:rolleyes:

givyjoe81

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Roll your eyes all you like!! I normally hate that and dont do it, but thought it warranted it this time! I dont use the p1ss poor DIT email system, mainly becuase its shocking to use plus you get spammed non stop by that careers guy. Majority of my masters class dont use it either. So not much use just informing people by DIT student mail. We have a webex for such announcements and NONE there!!!

But at least its not just a case of ah sure its broke we'll fix it tm.

Oh and what alt arrangements for Aungier Street?!

Gazza22

mydit is back online now

Creamy Goodness

you can't really complain about a service not being there if you don't use the one common service that DIT have to contact you with, the email system.

there are 100's of different systems in place within the D.I.T. some set up by central IT, some set up but Faculties, and some set up by schools. the only one that is common between all staff and students is email. IT have enough problems to deal with that worrying did every system post an announcement because quite frankly sending an email is quite sufficient in this case. the amount of politics that has gone on between faculties and schools with regards to systems you'd realise it's a big mess, and they know it but it's not like they can just plonk in a whole new system and it works out of the box. things just don't work like that.

givyjoe81

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

you can't really complain about a service not being there if you don't use the one service that DIT have to contact you with, the email system.

there are 100's of different systems in place within the D.I.T. some set up by central IT, some set up but Faculties, and some set up by schools. the only one that is common between all staff and students is email. IT have enough problems to deal with that worrying did every system post an announcement because quite frankly sending an email is quite sufficient in this case.

Perhaps you should read my post again. Your second post is marginally more helpfull than the completely irrelevant first one..

Read carefully... Neither me nor the majority of my class mates in my masters class, many of whom have not attended DIT before do not use the Student Mail system, mainly becuase they were not aware of it nor made aware of it by anyone involved in our course. We all provided email addresses at the beginning of the year to our course co-ordinator which would be used to contact us with relevant announcemnets.

So no, sending a email to a system not used by an entire course is NOT SUFFICIENT. IT im sure have plenty to do but part of their duty is to inform people affected by their work, namely their customers or students!

Creamy Goodness

hmm so now you say you expect everything to go to your personal account that you provided to your course co-ordinator?

i'm sorry but that just doesn't fly, how are IT meant to know that some students aren't using the email system, they haven't a clue, it's not their fault, as far as they are aware every student uses the DIT mail system and that's that.

you have access to the email (as you've said you get spammed by some careers guy and it's useless, i'll agree on its usability is dire) but you really should be checking your DIT emails.

there's absolutely no point coming on here complaining about IT when they gave all students sufficient notice. It just screams "i'm nitpicking at DIT".

Talk to your course co-ordinator, tell him if s/he said not to use dit email then why didn't s/he inform you. it's not IT's fault, it's you and your course co-ordinator's.

givyjoe81

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

hmm so now you say you expect everything to go to your personal account that you provided to your course co-ordinator?

i'm sorry but that just doesn't fly, how are IT meant to know that some students aren't using the email system, they haven't a clue, it's not their fault, as far as they are aware every student uses the DIT mail system and that's that.

you have access to the email (as you've said you get spammed by some careers guy and it's useless, i'll agree on its usability is dire) but you really should be checking your DIT emails.

there's absolutely no point coming on here complaining about IT when they gave all students sufficient notice. It just screams "i'm nitpicking at DIT".

Talk to your course co-ordinator, tell him if s/he said not to use dit email then why didn't s/he inform you. it's not IT's fault, it's you and your course co-ordinator's.

Nitpicking?! Aside from the Fact DIT is a total joke appitmised by our course, its 110& not my fault nor anyone from my class. If we are told to expect important and relevant announcements to be made through our web ex and notified by our personal email then that is what we as a class are entitled to expect. Yup the course co-ordinator takes some blame and has in general over the year completely let the course down.

Anyway IT have absolutely NOT contacted all students, simple as, and it is their responsibility to do so. IT would know we weren't using if there wasnt such an appalling lack of communication across DIT.

As for the DIT emails i have checked it one occasion which took an absolute age, due to its completely useless nature, plus the amount of spam being in it. It also seemed to contain emails which were completley irrelevant to our course, in fact i didnt see one single email relevant to my course at all so deleted every last one, as i said we have been getting notified of anything relevant via our personal emails directing us to the webex. So no not the students fault nor responsibility on this occasion.

Incidentally i was on the DIT site yesterday, why on earth couldnt they simply put up a big banner saying out of action TM? Simple really.

mark renton

Dear Students,

An upgrade to the core DIT network is scheduled to take place in Easter
week, on Tuesday 14th April. This is to facilitate the increased
performance and availability of the network service for internet access
and to enhance connectivity between our various DIT centres. This
upgrade is one of a series of network upgrades for all centres, funded
via the Information Services Steering Committee.

Heres an idea - bad performance is better than none, wait until summer to enhance

:mad:

Creamy Goodness

ahh here i give up, it's like talking to a brick wall...

givyjoe81

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

ahh here i give up, it's like talking to a brick wall...

And yet the brick wall seems to make relevant points which you simply seem to completely ignore and continue with bla bla bla IT told everyone, its your fault bla bla... I wonder are all your posts so insightful and helpful, brick wall says to clown...

candy19

In all fairness it's such a bad time to be upgrading the system...
Many of us are either up to our eyes with assignments or seriously trying to study for exams..couldn't this have not waited until the summer??
Dit always do stupid things at stupid times!!!

mark renton

Ive just posted in an assignment a week early :eek: i thought it was due in today :eek:

Now im not blaming IT or anybody else for my own responsibilities, but cmon its peak time

Gazza22

candy19 wrote: »

In all fairness it's such a bad time to be upgrading the system...
Many of us are either up to our eyes with assignments or seriously trying to study for exams..couldn't this have not waited until the summer??
Dit always do stupid things at stupid times!!!

john47832 wrote:

Heres an idea - bad performance is better than none, wait until summer to enhance

It's only a few hours so i don't really see the problem. It shouldn't affect anybody who regularly uses Webcourses or mydit because a weeks notice was given and also everytime you logged onto Webcourses the past week, a reminder was also given...

The notice was served, if you felt it was going to affect your study and/or you needed it today to do assignments, you should have downloaded the relevant material you needed before today.

candy19

Also can I make one other point...what the hells hapening with the library being closed today..I have friends starting back in lectures in Galway and in Trinity and we don't even have a library to study in!! WTF!!!!

68 lost souls

It may have been timed better but none the less it is up to every student to check their own DIT email regularly wether it is spammed or not. As a student of DIT be it part time or full time you are issued with a student card which clearly states your email address therefore would you not agree that a person smart enough to be doing a masters degree could assume that they do indeed have a college email which they should check?

We do not know the extent of the improvements and they may have been urgently needed so this was the only time it could be done. We do not know and I am not saying that it is definately the case.

The staff all know we have personal emails as mpst people in this day in age have one yes but do you really expect every singal faculty, school, department, section of the college to keep track of thousands upon thousands of personal emails when a system is in place to email the entire college at once and the logistics of compiling an email list of all these personal emails when they can siply email say "dt1231list@dit.ie" or the likes?

Now please take a breath, calm down and do some other work till the email system is back and stop picking fights with people.

68 lost souls

candy19 wrote: »

Also can I make one other point...what the hells hapening with the library being closed today..I have friends starting back in lectures in Galway and in Trinity and we don't even have a library to study in!! WTF!!!!

Other colleges work on different timetables. Trinity for example dont start the year till much later then us so what does it matter. you cant compare apples and oranges.

Creamy Goodness

givyjoe81 wrote: »

And yet the brick wall seems to make relevant points which you simply seem to completely ignore and continue with bla bla bla IT told everyone, its your fault bla bla... I wonder are all your posts so insightful and helpful, brick wall says to clown...

*sigh* everyone who gets into a discussion here with me always attacks the post count either directly or indirectly, it doesn't matter

see ya .o/

candy19 wrote: »

In all fairness it's such a bad time to be upgrading the system...
Many of us are either up to our eyes with assignments or seriously trying to study for exams..couldn't this have not waited until the summer??
Dit always do stupid things at stupid times!!!

ohh totally, it's a ****ing poxy time to perform maintenance work and i'll be the first to admit that.

but i just don't see the point of moaning about not being told when we were told a week in advance to give us plenty of time to make alternative arrangements. I'm in final year myself it sucks but i was aware of the disruption and made plans to minimise the affect the down time would have to me.



ahhh at least 68 lost souls can see sense.

candy19

now come on!! You know I have a point, everything should be back to normal today...it is everywhere but in dit...the least that could have been done is that the library should have been open...It's not eve a bank holiday for gods sake!!

givyjoe81

Gazza22 wrote: »

Heres an idea - bad performance is better than none, wait until summer to enhance

It's only a few hours so i don't really see the problem. It shouldn't affect anybody who regularly uses Webcourses or mydit because a weeks notice was given and also everytime you logged onto Webcourses the past week, a reminder was also given...

The notice was served, if you felt it was going to affect your study and/or you needed it today to do assignments, you should have downloaded the relevant material you needed before today.

Man, my whole point as stressed above was that me and the majority of my course simply do not use this email system. We were INSTRUCTED at the start of the year to provide personal emails which would be used to contact us, which has been and is the case aside from this time. There have even been announcements by IT made directly on our courses webex.

I take no responsibilty for not checking this increasingly irrelevant email system as I should be able to take my course directors word for it that if we need to hear about something, we will, and via our email's provided and the webex.

Today i was just looking ad hoc for articles etc which couldnt be prepared in advance. The reason for my orginal post was because i didnt know what was going and understandably jumped to the conlusion that DIT strikes again and it be god knows how long til it fixed.

Finally! As others have noted, tell my what was so urgent that couldnt wait til June?! The net connection works just fine in DIT, aungier street anyway and some the new computers make internet crazy fast. Granted the WI-Fi has been appalling all year but cmon, why not wait til summer. Doesn't matter how much notice they give, as i mentioned i needed to use stuff today ad hoc which cant be pre planned.

givyjoe81

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

*sigh* everyone who gets into a discussion here with me always attacks the post count either directly or indirectly, it doesn't matter

see ya .o/

Mate i dont care how many posts you make, it doenst matter, but you make a post like that after your little roll eyes only one, then what do you expect. Simply saying over and over thats it my fault doesnt make it so and I equally am frustrated at your clear in ability to see my point of view.

Creamy Goodness

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Finally! As others have noted, tell my what was so urgent that couldnt wait til June?! The net connection works just fine in DIT, aungier street anyway and some the new computers make internet crazy fast. Granted the WI-Fi has been appalling all year but cmon, why not wait til summer. Doesn't matter how much notice they give, as i mentioned i needed to use stuff today ad hoc which cant be pre planned.

we've absolutely no idea what was so urgent that it couldn't be put off until June, they won't tell students that. To be honest i doubt they'd take down systems just for the absolute fun of it? do you?

the "net" may work fine in Aungier street, but there are other colleges which all hook into Aungier street so maybe there was a problem with those connections.

the simple fact of the matter is,

down time was planned.
all students were notified with a weeks notice.
down time happened on said date.
down time became no more.
over and done with.

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Mate i dont care how many posts you make, it doenst matter, but you make a post like that after your little roll eyes only one, then what do you expect. Simply saying over and over thats it my fault doesnt make it so and I equally am frustrated at your clear in ability to see my point of view.

then why make a indirect reference to it?

and blaming IT and saying it's IT's fault over and over doesn't make it so either, yet you think it does?

I'm leaving this thread now, cause this has gone majorly off the topic.

again...
down time was planned.
all students were notified with a weeks notice.
down time happened on said date.
down time became no more.
over and done with.

mark renton

Gazza22 wrote: »

It's only a few hours so i don't really see the problem. It shouldn't affect anybody who regularly uses Webcourses or mydit because a weeks notice was given and also everytime you logged onto Webcourses the past week, a reminder was also given...

The notice was served, if you felt it was going to affect your study and/or you needed it today to do assignments, you should have downloaded the relevant material you needed before today.

Ok heres the deal - full time job / part time student, free time to do assignments happens to come along every now and then and has to be taken once it appears, today it appeared and I'm not happy that my assignment was affected by the website being down... having said that I understand the tutors are not running guantanamo and I could possibly request my assignment be returned but the bottom line is this has affected my work

givyjoe81

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

we've absolutely no idea what was so urgent that it couldn't be put off until June, they won't tell students that. To be honest i doubt they'd take down systems just for the absolute fun of it? do you?

the "net" may work fine in Aungier street, but there are other colleges which all hook into Aungier street so maybe there was a problem with those connections.

the simple fact of the matter is,

down time was planned.
all students were notified with a weeks notice.
down time happened on said date.
down time became no more.
over and done with.

You've clearly taken to not reading my posts at all havent you. FFS how many times do i have to say that anywhere from 90 to 100% of students in my class were not aware of this. Just cos they made a couple of mouse clicks and added a few class lists, does not mean they made any sort of meaningfull effort to inform affected people i.e. ALL STUDENTS, get it?!. They should be aware of courses that dont use the student mail, and god knows how many courses, prob post grad that are so. It is THEIR responsbility to inform and they clearly didnt do it adequately.

Meh, over and done with cos i said so..:D

Creamy Goodness

givyjoe81 wrote: »

You've clearly taken to not reading my posts at all havent you. FFS how many times do i have to say that anywhere from 90 to 100% of students in my class were not aware of this. Just cos they made a couple of mouse clicks and added a few class lists, does not mean they made any sort of meaningfull effort to inform affected people i.e. ALL STUDENTS, get it?!. They should be aware of courses that dont use the student mail, and god knows how many courses, prob post grad that are so. It is THEIR responsbility to inform and they clearly didnt do it adequately.

Meh, over and done with cos i said so..:D

i can read thank you very much.

ALL STUDENTS are given an email address, ALL STUDENTS are expected to read this, ALL STUDENTS get important information on said email.

how can they be aware of courses that don't use student mail? how the hell are they to know if some back arsed co-ordinator decides to go against the grain?

Gazza22

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Man, my whole point as stressed above was that me and the majority of my course simply do not use this email system. We were INSTRUCTED at the start of the year to provide personal emails which would be used to contact us, which has been and is the case aside from this time. There have even been announcements by IT made directly on our courses webex.

I take no responsibilty for not checking this increasingly irrelevant email system as I should be able to take my course directors word for it that if we need to hear about something, we will, and via our email's provided and the webex.

Today i was just looking ad hoc for articles etc which couldnt be prepared in advance. The reason for my orginal post was because i didnt know what was going and understandably jumped to the conlusion that DIT strikes again and it be god knows how long til it fixed.

Finally! As others have noted, tell my what was so urgent that couldnt wait til June?! The net connection works just fine in DIT, aungier street anyway and some the new computers make internet crazy fast. Granted the WI-Fi has been appalling all year but cmon, why not wait til summer. Doesn't matter how much notice they give, as i mentioned i needed to use stuff today ad hoc which cant be pre planned.

That post above wasn't directed at you, i quoted Candy19 & john47832. I understood from your first post that you didn't know about the maintenance!

As for the actual maintenance, i don't know the specifics just "This is to facilitate the increased performance and availability of the network service for internet access and to enhance connectivity between our various DIT centres" .

You see as an Aungier St student you probably haven't encountered much problems, it is the jewel in the crown of DIT. But personally, for me as a Kevin St. student i encounter problems with Wifi/networks etc almost on a daily basis and i for one welcome any maintenance to improve this. Doing it in the summer is of no use to me or any other student until next year. There is however over a month left (of now hopefully a smoother network) and final exams to prepare for so sacrificing a 8 hours during Easter break is worth it.


Webcourses is now online too.

Stench Blossoms

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Man, my whole point as stressed above was that me and the majority of my course simply do not use this email system. We were INSTRUCTED at the start of the year to provide personal emails which would be used to contact us, which has been and is the case aside from this time. There have even been announcements by IT made directly on our courses webex.

*If* you were instructed to use your personal email by your lecturer then your lecturer should have emailed you letting you know of the downtime.

It's not the IT departments responsibility to inform students by personal email that they are doing maintenance.

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Today i was just looking ad hoc for articles etc which couldnt be prepared in advance. The reason for my orginal post was because i didnt know what was going and understandably jumped to the conlusion that DIT strikes again and it be god knows how long til it fixed.

Again it's not the fault of the IT department that you didn't know because you don't check your student emails.

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Finally! As others have noted, tell my what was so urgent that couldnt wait til June?! The net connection works just fine in DIT, aungier street anyway and some the new computers make internet crazy fast. Granted the WI-Fi has been appalling all year but cmon, why not wait til summer. Doesn't matter how much notice they give, as i mentioned i needed to use stuff today ad hoc which cant be pre planned.

Gazza22 wrote: »

You see as an Aungier St student you probably haven't encountered much problems, it is the jewel in the crown of DIT. But personally, for me as a Kevin St. student i encounter problems with Wifi/networks etc almost on a daily basis and i for one welcome any maintenance to improve this. Doing it in the summer is of no use to me or any other student until next year. There is however over a month left (of now hopefully a smoother network) and final exams to prepare for so sacrificing a 8 hours during Easter break is worth it.

Gazza has answered your question. The Wi-fi in Kevin St. is brutal so having it fixed in June is no good to me.

givyjoe81

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i can read thank you very much.

ALL STUDENTS are given an email address, ALL STUDENTS are expected to read this, ALL STUDENTS get important information on said email.

how can they be aware of courses that don't use student mail? how the hell are they to know if some back arsed co-ordinator decides to go against the grain?

Which is my fault how exactly?! I was not GIVEN an email address by anybody, the only reason that was even aware of the student mail thing is because i previously did a post grad course in DIT, a course during which we WERE instrcuted to use our dit mail, and i did so! Cos my fcuking course co oridnator told me do it... The IT staff are clearly aware of huge amount of people not using their email and system as are course co ordinators such as who decide to use a bit of 'foresight' and contact us by personal email address rather than that muck system, which nobody wants to or hardly ever uses.

So fast forward to this course, again i am instructed to use my own email address as this is how students ON this course will be communicated... see a pattern developing here do you?? I take instructions form people whom i should be entitled to rely upon. So ALL students not informed is the net result.

Maybe if the IT department gave a monkey's what they were doing and who they were doing it for, same for every shambles of a department in DIT, then perhaps they would have done a little more to inform people. Like i said why on earth wasnt there a notice on the god damn website eh?! I

mark renton

Gazza22 wrote: »

That post above wasn't directed at you, i quoted Candy19 & john47832. I understood from your first post that you didn't know about the maintenance!

As for the actual maintenance, i don't know the specifics just "This is to facilitate the increased performance and availability of the network service for internet access and to enhance connectivity between our various DIT centres" .

You see as an Aungier St student you probably haven't encountered much problems, it is the jewel in the crown of DIT. But personally, for me as a Kevin St. student i encounter problems with Wifi/networks etc almost on a daily basis and i for one welcome any maintenance to improve this. Doing it in the summer is of no use to me or any other student until next year.

So it should really have been done last year for this semester, how difficult is it to maintain a sufficiently acceptable network????

givyjoe81

orla wrote: »

*If* you were instructed to use your personal email by your lecturer then your lecturer should have emailed you letting you know of the downtime.

It's not the IT departments responsibility to inform students by personal email that they are doing maintenance.



Again it's not the fault of the IT department that you didn't know because you don't check your student emails.





Gazza has answered your question. The Wi-fi in Kevin St. is brutal so having it fixed in June is no good to me.

Kindly read the previous posts carefully before making incorrect posts.

No individual lecturer told us, course co ordinator instructed us to provide email addresses that would be used to notify us of any important accouncements which would be posted on the WEBEX, as i said previous IT announcemnts were done so via this facility so there is NO EXCUSE for doing the same here.

The WI-Fi has been brutal in Aungier street, which is what i said, all year long. So why in the name of god do they choose to improve it now? What are the odds that tomorrow it still blows and no meaningful improvements benefiting students will be seen.

Stench Blossoms

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Which is my fault how exactly?! I was not GIVEN an email address by anybody,

Your email address is on your student card. Why would anyone GIVE it to you ? Surely your old enough to get it yourself.

Stench Blossoms

givyjoe81 wrote: »

No individual lecturer told us, course co ordinator instructed us to provide email addresses that would be used to notify us of any important accouncements which would be posted on the WEBEX,

ok so change this

orla wrote:

*If* you were instructed to use your personal email by your lecturer then your lecturer should have emailed you letting you know of the downtime.

to

orla wrote:

*If* you were instructed to use your personal email by your course coordinator then your course coordinator should have emailed you letting you know of the downtime.

They obviously use their staff email so would have been informed of the maintenance so blame them.

I've never used WEBEX so I wouldn't look there if there anything was down. I'd read my emails.

Gazza22

john47832 wrote: »

Ok heres the deal - full time job / part time student, free time to do assignments happens to come along every now and then and has to be taken once it appears, today it appeared and I'm not happy that my assignment was affected by the website being down... having said that I understand the tutors are not running guantanamo and I could possibly request my assignment be returned but the bottom line is this has affected my work

I can understand givyjoe81 being affected as he has an alternative arrangment with his course director regarding contact (albeit a rather strange arrangement, his course director is wrong for doing this and should be using the system in place to avoid confusion like this) but in your case, if you don't check mydit or webcourses often, you have no one to blame but yourself for missing a few hours access today.

john47832 wrote: »

So it should really have been done last year for this semester, how difficult is it to maintain a sufficiently acceptable network????

Yes perhaps it should have. Was it? No! So better late than never. It's progress

givyjoe81

orla wrote: »

Your email address is on your student card. Why would anyone GIVE it to you ? Surely your old enough to get it yourself.

Jaysus do you know i didnt even notice that til now. Little things are easily missed. Doesnt change instructions as previously outlined. I see you havent yet mastered how to read through texts thoroughly before making judgments?! Dont worry that comes with age .

To the other chap, apologies dont recall your profile name! I understand wi-fi is **** but i can assure you its equally **** in Aungier street. It doesnt mention anywhere that the work is being done to improve it. Even

Stench Blossoms

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Jaysus do you know i didnt even notice that til now. Little things are easily missed. Doesnt change instructions as previously outlined. I see you havent yet mastered how to read through texts thoroughly before making judgments?! Dont worry that comes with age

And I see don't care for other peoples judgments when they aren't similar to your own.

Don't worry that kind of attitude goes with age

givyjoe81

orla wrote: »

And I see don't care for other peoples judgments when they aren't similar to your own.

Don't worry that kind of attitude goes with age

No i wouldnt say that, Id say blindly jumping on a bandwagon without actually reading things is a rather worrying trait, irrelvant of age.

I dont care for judgments that blindly ignore opposing points of view, which had been until the case until GAZZA acknowledged what iv been saying all along. Think thats rather understandable.

You dont use webex, well we do and it is the EXCLUSIVE means for our lecturer's to communicate with us, again this is exactly my point which you and creamy seem to be missing again and again.

Gazza22

givyjoe81 wrote: »

Jaysus do you know i didnt even notice that til now. Little things are easily missed. Doesnt change instructions as previously outlined. I see you havent yet mastered how to read through texts thoroughly before making judgments?! Dont worry that comes with age .

To the other chap, apologies dont recall your profile name! I understand wi-fi is **** but i can assure you its equally **** in Aungier street. It doesnt mention anywhere that the work is being done to improve it. Even

Welcome to DIT Progress is rather slow in DIT so when it finally comes about, i tend to look on the positive side. Sure this should all have been done long ago but at least it's being done now and we will hopefully benefit from it for the next few weeks.

Oh and now that you know your email, just FYI your password is your date of birth and you can change it after your first log in. https://mydit.dit.ie

68 lost souls

Im guessing if they brough the whole server down then it was not just for wifi. If they were just fixing that tehhy probably wouldnt have neeeded down time. They may have been changing servers over or something. I know some software the college recently wouldnt work with the old servers and it took us 3 months to get the new versions installed on our computers while they waited to get a new part.

mark renton

Gazza22 wrote: »

I can understand givyjoe81 being affected as he has an alternative arrangment with his course director regarding contact (albeit a rather strange arrangement, his course director is wrong for doing this and should be using the system in place to avoid confusion like this) but in your case, if you don't check mydit or webcourses often, you have no one to blame but yourself for missing a few hours access today.

Yes I now realise - I'm to blame for believing that interruptions could not be set aside until non peak time, or even a day over the 3 day weekend

bottom line is its not acceptable

68 lost souls

In the view of the college this was non peak time. It was not done during review week it was done during a college "holiday" so I would stop blaming them.

mark renton

If this was the first of the year than maybe, but its not and blame lies at the feet of whoever is responsible for the upkeep