Category: GAC IT

Wireless coverage on campus got a boost today as we upgraded the wireless access point on the roof of Rundstrom. It used to have an old Orinoco wireless card attached to a directional antenna. Now we have installed a new high powered Tropos access point like the ones on International , Pittman, and Norelius. The…

Today Ethan and I got started on installing the network hardware in South West Hall. The new building will have a nice 10/100 MBit network with each half of the building having its own 1GBit uplink to the rest of campus. Hopefully that will make the heavy network users in that building next year very…

Yesterday we upgraded the network connection between SSC and the rest of campus from a 100Mbit connection to a 1Gbit connection. Hopefully anyone with a computer in SSC will notice a nice increase in network performance.

As a few students noticed last night we hade a couple small interuptions in our service. I contacted our ISP about it and they were not aware of any problems. Later on they got back to me and let me know that another part of the ISP actually did do some work on their “fiber…

As some people on campus noticed, we had an issue with our internet connection last night. It appears as thought our internet service provider, Hickory Tech, had some issues. At about 1:15am, 1:20am, 2:30am, 2:36am, and 2:48am, it looks like out internet connection was down for a minute or two. As Wednesday night is Hickory…

Late in the day yesterday (~4:00pm) the disks attached to our email server had a hiccup which caused a mirror system to fail. Thus the server needed to repair the mirror. Over the next several hours email was extremely slow. Users with small mailboxes (a few megs or less) were able to use email. Everyone…

I just wanted to let everyone know that we are putting a new email server into place as a secondary to solen. This new email server has been configured to better combat spam by enforcing mailservers to adhere to the email standards more strictly. It will also pass all the email through an email scanner…

In preperation for tonights game, we have added a wireless access point to Lund. It is a nice, strong, wireless device that should cover a rather large area pretty well. If anyone uses it, I’d like to hear about your experiences. It is a little bit of an unusual setup for us because it is…

Something strange happened on our res-hall network again this morning. At about 7:00am this morning there was a ton of broadcast traffic. Something like 50k or 60k of traffic where we normally see about 5k-10k. Another symptom was that all of the switches in the dorms were seeing really high cpu usage. Especially the slower…