Friday, September 3, 2010

LaFollette has WEAK INTERNET

If you live in LaFollette then you know what I am talking about. It seems like every other place on campus has the greatest wifi connection. Is it because LaFollette is such an old buliding? Is it because it is on the very northeast edge of campus? Who knows, but I know that living in LaFollette is such a hastle when it comes to the internet. There is an alternative for trouble with using the wifi in LaFollette. You can go to Wal-Mart and purchase an Ethernet cord, but in some rooms in Lafollette the data outlet to plug in the cord is broken. Now that poses a problem doesn't it? I was one of the lucky ones that got a room where the data output actually does work (However, it is still a slow connection). I wanted to test fact that the internet works perfectly fine everywhere else on campus. So, I decided to do my fantasy football draft in multiple places on campus. I started in Noyer Hall and walked towards the library and everything seemed good. I walked even farther south toward the Atrium and everything was still working fine. I walked back up McKinley Ave. on the east side of the street (near the new fitness center) and all was well with the connection. As soon as I began to cross the street to get to LaFollette the connection started to go bad. I then had to rush up to my room to plug my computer into the Ethernet cord. I thought it was the weirdest thing that I was walking down the street while drafting a fantasy football team and as soon as I went back to LaFollette the connection started to go bad, proving that although there is an internet connection in the complex, but it is just very very weak.

1 comment:

  1. I lived in Johnson last year so i know what you mean. i had to go to the computer lab on the bottom floor in order to do anything with blackboard or online quizzes because the internet was horrible. even with the ethernet cord i wasnt able to watch youtube videos.haha ik what your talking about.

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