Student Wifi is garbage

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So in my dorms there is a universal wifi network for all students to use. I'm not sure if there are multiple routers and whatnot but, I have a fine signal. like anywhere from 3-5 bars. I'm having a hell of a time receiving an internet signal for anywhere longer than 2 minutes. Every 2 minutes or so a yellow exclamation point pops up on my bars (still connected) and says "Limited: No internet access". I have to disconnect from the network and reconnect only to have the same thing happen in 30 seconds-2 minutes. I've contacted tech support and the guy says they put better antennas on and I am still having the same exact problem. Unfortunately there is no ethernet in my room but there is a phone jack.... This has been irritating me to no end and I can't figure out what to do. Would there be a way to create my own signal somehow? I see there are other wifi networks obviously not ran by the school such as "GET YOUR OWN WIFI". I can't use anything that connects to 3g/4g as I am in a town that does not get either of those.. This has really been irritating me.... Anyone that can help solve this problem gets +K and I will send some stickers.

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Forgot to add: I know it is not my equipment because I can connect to the student network perfectly elsewhere on campus.

12 years ago

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Caleb.E

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Our interent is isnaly fast, downloaded a 8g game in like 3/4 hour

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LiquorLanch

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I have tech school internet aka pages loa the second i click them sorry bro

12 years ago

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TACO-DOG.exe

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just get your own wifi

12 years ago

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Caleb.E

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nice shit, i was super surprised on how fast it was, this is all wireless. I gues im paying for some thing

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cydwhit

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Ya, you on uofi network? It's super fast, way better then my home internet

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will_powder

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Mine is unreal. This is from earlier this week:

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DaveJ

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Mine is good but for a lot of my roomates it sucks

12 years ago

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Ray.

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My schools wifi is pretty fast but it drops every 5 minutes like yours does. But we have ethernet ports so everyone plugs in their own router or plugs their computer directly. Youre kind of fucked in your room.

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Mag

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Chances are your computer Is the problem, irregardless of whether or not it works at home.

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Lemuel

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Feel lucky, not 3 years ago when I was living in dorms we still had ethernet cords strung around the room.

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eheath

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It's probably just because everyone is using it at the same time.

We had ethernet ports in all our dorms so we could bring our own router, it was nice, internet still wasn't particularly fast.

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corona

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I wouldn't feel bad about using someone's wifi since it's just university internet and they're not paying for data or anything like that.

So now you need to do a tiny little bit of research and learn how to brute force WPA networks.

I'll give you a big hint: Aircrack.

But unless you're crazy good with computers and can develop your own dll's for your wireless cards, you need to use linux.

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marsh.

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I had 99mb/s of download speed at uw-Madison last week before everyone got here. Fastest Internet I've ever seen

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roddy116

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night time- 150mbps +

day time- 50 mbps

4-9 ish- >10 kbps

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howlongcanausern

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sorry, probably shitty hardware/shitty configuration and an overwhelmed IT department

i would suspect you're not alone

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MilaKunis

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cultrara

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The router for my dorm in in my room. I'm not sure how much a difference that makes, but my wifi is really fast.

12 years ago

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Yaraelpoof.png

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where do you go to school?

12 years ago

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CheddarJack

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My chrome is fucked up...

Safari:

Chrome:

I'm at UVM btw.

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E__

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Sounds like my WiFi at home.

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ABdrummer

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As for your problem, I guess a bunch of people connecting keeps booting you off. Demand Ethernet access fer sure

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act.resist

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same thing happens to my dorm's wifi, im pretty sure a lot of schools in certain areas have the same wifi as other schools. i.e. last year there was a mass shut down of the internet in michigan, UofM MSU CMU Wayne State - all of the school's wifi shut down including mine.

i have a feeling that its a bigger error in the signals coming from the satellite because no one on campus can explain why its happening.

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corona

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that's because your Chrome is going through a proxy. at least that's what it looks like. you probably used one at some point and never switched back. check your proxy settings.

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eheath

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Satellite?

...

-__________-

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act.resist

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