After days of intense troubleshooting, workers at Housing IT have finally established a time that all Madison students can log into the campus wireless Internet without any trouble.
Beginning Monday, housing residents will be able to access ResNet from the comfort of their own bathroom between the delicate hours of 3 and 8 a.m. Housing IT director Sathish Gopalrao said in a campus-wide email. “Next, we hope to bring service to the janitorial closets and work our way out from there.”
Until now, ResNet has been erratic at best in the dorms. Residents have become accustomed to only being able to access the Internet at obscure times in exotic places.
“I can’t get on the Internet in my room,” says freshman Sally Lyons, who lives in Sellery, “but it seems to work really well on the roof of Van Vleck every other cloudy day.”
Additional locations and times that students have discovered lightning-fast Internet hotspots include, the sewers under Chadbourne, bus route 80 (but only on Observatory), and the exact middle of the intersection of Park and University when the planets align ever so nicely.
“We are truly sorry for the shoddy wireless connections the majority of our residents have been experiencing ever since returning from break,” Golparao’s email continued. “Most of the issues were caused by too much video streaming during the prime evening hours, which our servers simply weren’t prepared to handle.”
“Yes…too much ‘video’ streaming…” said sophomore Otis McGruber.
