All works on comms cabinet in all buildings is now complete. All wireless AP’s have been replaced, and we are almost there. There are a handful of snagging issues the engineers will be working on next week along with a clean up and removal of the old equipment. For now, Read more
From 17th March – 18th April 2025, we will be carrying out a network replacement project that will massively upgrade our network quality and capacity. We are writing to you today to let you know more information about this project and how it will affect you. Why is it necessary? Read more
Planned Network Maintenance – Planned wired network upgrade, July 13th 10am to 4pm Monday 13th July, work on the core and network upgrade starts again, the first issue we need our engineers to look at is the issues we had with the network CORE. So on Monday 13th July from Read more
The survey was completed and the college received the separate reports, one for each building, going on some 380 pages. We are still awaiting an updated summary document but the list of recommendations is quite small and we hope to have them all implemented before the Christmas closure (20th December). Read more
There will be two engineers on-site each day, so buildings will be done in parallel. Tuesday 14th Engineer 1 Maitland Darbishire Margery Fry House Engineer 2 Wolfson Penrose Wednesday 15th Engineer 1 Park Library House Hostle Engineer 2 Vaughan Margery Fry House DHQ Barbara Craig House Radcliffe
Almost there… As of 4pm today we have 290 wireless access points online serving the College. We are currently snagging the remaining issues which affect around 8 access points we still need to bring online. Please give the wireless network a good test and if you could provide feedback to Read more
Work this week Penrose & Wolfson including FAH & BWR Darbishire Quad, Lodge House & NCR Park – Tuesday 31st October Final configuration day – TBC Other buildings To see the current status of all College buildings please refer this schedule: http://blogs.some.ox.ac.uk/ict/2017/10/03/wireless-upgrade-2017-schedule-michaelmas-term/ Red = behind schedule, some issues with connectivity Read more
Completed so far this week For the following buildings all rooms should be working, so give it a good test and let us know via ict.desk@some.ox.ac.uk if you have any issues: 119a / Nursery Hostel / Bursary Dining Hall including PDR/SCR/Reading Room/Staff Room/Offices Vaughan Holtby Ongoing work Penrose & Wolfson Read more
Bright lights? As we have a few of the new wireless APs installed on the ceiling in some bedrooms, you may see a bright light in the corner of the AP, this is to tell us the device is working. Of course we understand that you may not want a Read more
Ongoing work ROQ East and West – All rooms should be working at 100% with the following exceptions which are being investigated today and tomorrow: East – Room 6, Room 23 West – Room 3, Room 32, Room 35, Room 37, Room41 Barbara Craig House – one access point still Read more