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  • Campus Internet Connection Bandwidth Increase

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    doachs

    Due to the ever increasing demand for internet bandwidth it was once again time for GTS to upgrade our internet connection before spring semester kicks off.  For the past few years the campus has had 2Gbit/s of bandwidth to the internet and 1Gbit/s to Internet2.  While this was a huge amount of capacity a few…

  • 2018 Commencement Time Lapse Video

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    doachs

    Congratulations class of 2018!  Commencement is over and you are on to whatever comes next.  Unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate this year and commencement was held indoors for the first time since 2014.  But don’t worry, there is a camera in the arena that we used to create a time lapse video of the indoor…

  • New and improved GusTV

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    doachs

    Today GusTV was updated with some new channels, higher resolution video streams, and closed captions. Since GusTV first debuted as a pilot project in 2007, students have enjoyed the ability to stream local broadcast TV channels to their computers and mobile devices.  Over the years we have added a few additional channels but has largely…

  • C in CC Streaming Stats and Bonus Time Lapse Video

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    doachs

      So just how many people watched the first ever live stream of Christmas in Christ Chapel this year?  Well, that is a tough question to answer.  It seems like that should be a pretty straight forward and simple answer.  Just count up the number of requests for the video file from our systems logs…

  • WiFi Network Updates

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    doachs

    Since the beginning of spring semester GTS has received a number of complaints about how the wireless/wifi network has been extra slow for them.  Many people mentioned that it was working fine last fall but that this spring it was significantly slower or basically not working for them at all, especially in the evenings. Between…

  • New Webmail FAQ

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    doachs

    Here are a few common questions we’ve received about the new version of webmail and their solutions. I am unable to login: Please clear your cookies and restart your browser. I liked the way the old webmail worked better. Can I still use the old webmail? You can make the new webmail work like the…

  • Gustavus ranked #1 for IPv6 usage

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    doachs

    According to the statistics gathered by Google, Facebook, and Yahoo, over 75% of our network traffic to their sites is being done over IPv6. This past June, Gustavus Adolphus College joined the World IPv6 Launch network operators list and publicly committed to supporting IPv6 on our campus network to the best of our ability.  So…

  • 2012 Commencement Time Lapse

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    doachs

    Want to watch the 2012 Gustavus Commencement ceremony but don’t have 3 hours to spare?  Here you can watch the entire day compressed down to just over 1 minute. This video was created from a series of images captured by the webcam which lives in the stadium press box and provides a view of the…

  • Internet Upgrades

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    sommere

    Over break we made four major changes to our connection to the Internet. For the most part, they won’t impact how you use the Internet on a day to day basis, but they should improve our systems behind the scenes. We upgraded to a newer router which should be able to take better advantage of…

  • Brief Internet connection downtime Tuesday April 3rd

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    sommere

    On April 3rd GTS will be upgrading to a new Internet router and increasing the redundancy of our Internet connection. We anticipate that there will be a brief outage sometime between 7am and 8am (probably about 7:30am) as we switch to the new router. Adding the redundancy during the day should not cause any downtime,…