Core Services

Category: Networking

  • ISP Internet Maintenance Tonight

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    doachs

    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.

  • Internet Service Outages Today

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    doachs

    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.

  • Short internet access outage tonight

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    doachs

    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.

  • Internet Connection Issues Tonight

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    doachs

    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…

  • Network Upgrades

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    doachs

    Over the past couple of weeks, we have made some improvements to the campus computer network. The most noticeable of these will be for the residents of Pittman. Four more Wi-Fi access points were installed to help improve the wireless coverage in that dorm. Less noticeable changes were made to the wired network in Complex.…

  • Internet Connection (update)

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    doachs

    At about 6:00pm we noticed that our internet service provider was having some problems. Accessing Gustavus resources from off campus was not working at all. Shortly after that many users on campus began having problems connecting to AOL and accessing websites such as Slashdot.org while other sites were working. The problem appeared to be a…

  • Internet Slowness (fixed)

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    doachs

    You may have noticed that some websites and things such as AOL IM have been slow or not functioning well today. We believe that the cause of the problem was a backhoe incident near Valley Fair ( Just south of the Twin Cities). Well, maybe not excatly a backhoe, but a fiber optic cable was…

  • Network Infrastructure Upgrades

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    doachs

    Over the past couple of days we have increased the local network bandwidth available to some of the buildings on campus. By rearranging some of our network hardware and making use of previously dormant fiber links, we have made a few upgrades. Prairie View used to have a 100Mbit connection to the campus network which…

  • Wireless Status Page

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    sommere

    Did you know that there is a web site to check whether your GACwirless access point is working? You can go to http://stats.it.gac.edu/wireless-watch/status.php to see a list of most of Gustavus’ wireless access points and their status. This year about 70% of students on Gustavus’ network have made use of the wireless network. In fact,…

  • Network Upgrade Details

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    sommere

    Tonight’s upgrade went about how we expected, not quite as quick as well as we hoped, but about what we expected. It took almost exactly 30 minutes. In case you are wondering what we did (I’m sure you’re all glued to your seats) here’s a basic overview. Gustavus’ network has one central routing switch which…