Kevin st. wifi

pieface_ie

Hey

Does anyone know why the kevin st wifi is so slow in the library? Its around 1.5 megs, earlier in the year it was up to 15megs?

thanks

Alanstrainor

Just be grateful that it works at all...

Kenno90

Don't think i've ever gotten 15 megs over the wifi. As mentioned above, be thankful it works

pieface_ie

It was 15meg on speedtest but i was usually getting download speed of 700kbs/1meg a sec.

Hopefully it gets sorted out

wolfric

I think it depends what standard it's using (and i haven't checked) but possibly all the extra people and interference and sharing a channel with a pile of extra laptops. See if you can test it out at some stage when nobodys around (don't forget they could be around just not in the library)

Creamy Goodness

more people == less bandwidth.

as another poster said count yourself lucky it works at all.

grimm2005

I don't see why you'd need more than 1.5mb in the library anyway?

pieface_ie

I was using it early in the morning when there was no one there so forget about more people=less bandwidth!

I would expect the internet to work,so why should people be grateful it works at all when they are paying students.

Sure will hope it sorts itself out.

Alanstrainor

pieface_ie wrote: »

I was using it early in the morning when there was no one there so forget about more people=less bandwidth!

I would expect the internet to work,so why should people be grateful it works at all when they are paying students.

Sure will hope it sorts itself out.

There was no wifi for months last year. So that's why you should be grateful! The fact that we pay money to be there doesn't fix it unfortunately. DIT is pants when it comes to stuff like this.

D.Q

how do you log into the wifi in there again?

Alanstrainor

student number as the user(C12345678), and your date of birth as your password ddmm19--
i think.

iamstop

anyone able to log in on a smart phone? Android to be exact.

Alanstrainor

iamstop wrote: »

anyone able to log in on a smart phone? Android to be exact.

I have no problems logging on using either the LAN or Wifi on my Nokia N900, i might install android on it and try it tomorrow and see how successful i am.

Seth Brundle

I've had evenings in Kevin St where is won't work at all!

wolfric

depends on the area. consistently certain areas are good for wifi. other aren't. You can get fairly good in first floor annex as well as in the library. It's a bit dodgy in the ground floor lecture rooms but fine in the canteen. the 10-20 rooms on 3rd floor (i think) are the ones i never get wifi in. works okish in the labs in 1-10.

I always use ditwifi but ditlan is there as well.

Recently there's an issue thats giving off a beacon error in browser. Not sure what the hell that's from. techs say it's because access point is overloaded but as far as i know a beacon error would stop you connecting to the wifi. if you're able to get a web page your definitely connected to the wifi.