For a long time we have been using a pair of very old Sun servers ( the old Solen and Ra ) as our proxy servers. Well today was finally the day to train in their replacements. At about 11:30am today I flipped the switch so that people began using the two new proxy servers. [...]
After many weeks of waiting today was finally the day we were able to cut over from our 40Mbit HickoryTech internet connection to our shiny new 100Mbit Onvoy internet connection. As is the case with many new things, there are a few bugs to be worked out. One such bug came to light tonight. At about [...]
As of this afternoon we are now one step closer to getting our 1Gbit/s Internet2 connection (should be implemented by the end of the semester). Up until today we had a 45Mbit/s Internet2 connection. Today that connection was upgraded to 100Mbit/s. That means traffic flowing between Gustavus and other Internet2 connected institutions [...]
This summer the network in Uhler Hall was upgraded with all new wires. As part of the update, many more jacks were installed. Each suite should now have at least one jack per person living there. Some of the other jacks that were installed are now connected to new wireless access points. [...]
As you may have noticed, our connection to the Ineternet is often quite busy. In addition to our connection to the “Commodity Internet,” Gustavus also has an extra fast connection to Internet2 which connects colleges, universities, and research institutions on a very fast network. While our Internet connection is very busy most of the time, [...]
As many of you are very aware, our current internet bandwidth is not quite adequate to meet all of our demands at certain times of the day. Especially late afternoon on weekdays and Sunday nights. Fortunately we were able to come to an agreement with our Internet Service Provider ( HickoryTech ) to [...]
Our ISP ( HickoryTech ) is going to be performing maintenance on their internet connection tonight starting at midnight and lasting a few hours. You may notice a few brief internet service interruptions during this time.
We are currently experiencing short intermittent internet outages today. Our ISP (HickoryTech) is investigating the issue. We have noticed at least five 10 minute or so outages so far today.
Our Internet Service Provider will be performing an update to their Internet network equipment and will cause a short interruption to internet access starting at 12:01:am 02/15/2007. The interruption should last approximately 5 minutes.
At about 5:45pm tonight our Internet Service Provider (Hickorytech) had problems with one of their routers that connects Gustavus to the internet. As a result our connection to most of the internet was not working. At about 7:30pm they got the problem (or what I think were actually multiple problems) cleared up and internet access [...]