EIT provides a comprehensive wireless network across the entire campus, including the residence halls, academic buildings and administrative buildings. With the deployment of wireless networking in the residence halls, personal wireless routers may no longer serve as wireless access points. A wireless router may be registered for network access, but the wireless functionality must be disabled so that the device acts only as a multiport network switch. Technological measures will be used to disable unauthorized wireless routers.
With enterprise wireless networks located throughout the residence halls it is now possible to roam freely from room to room or floor to floor. This is not possible with personally owned wireless routers as each has its own access or authentication requirements. The access points deployed by EIT are IEEE 802.11n standard and use both the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz frequencies; this results in significantly improved bandwidth rates when compared to the IEEE 802.11a, b and g standards. The campus wireless network is identical across the campus, so a single configuration allows easy access from any location. For the reasons listed above, wireless routers are not allowed on the Rose-Hulman network.
For additional questions, please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@rose-hulman.edu or view this Laptop Orientation Video.
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