Starting from the summer of 2014, ITSC has been working to improve the Wi-Fi service in our Student Halls by installing in-room Wi-Fi Access Points (AP) in each hostel room. This provided better Wi-Fi coverage, faster and more reliable Wi-Fi connections to hall residents in the upgraded hostel rooms.
There are a total of 13 Student Halls on campus. Five of them have been upgraded to indoor APs in the summers of 2014 - 2016 respectively. At the same time the port speed of wired network connection has a 10-fold speed increase from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
Special funding has been approved by the University to speed up the Wi-Fi upgrade schedule for the remaining Student Halls by adopting the same in-room AP approach.
Key Milestones
Stage |
Areas |
No. of Installed Indoor APs |
Start Date |
Finish Date |
1 |
UG Hall 1 |
286 |
Jun 2014 |
Aug 2014 |
2 |
UG Hall 3 |
207 |
Jun 2015 |
Aug 2015 |
3 |
UG Hall 7, UG Hall 8, UG Hall 9 |
528 |
Jun 2016 |
Jul 2016 |
4 |
UG Hall 2, UG Hall 4, UG Hall 5, UG Hall 6, SKCC Hall, UA Tower A-C
|
1958 (estimated) |
Sep 2016 |
Dec 2017 |
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