Ongoing work Residents of ROQ East and West, Tuesday 17th, the College electrician is looking into the wiring issues for 12 rooms across both ROQ buildings that have wiring issues from the original build. The rooms affected are: ROQ West: 2,3,8,19,20,22,29,37,39; ROQ East: 7,12,23. We will update all when we Read more…
Residents of ROQ East and West, Friday 13th, work extending into today, we have almost all rooms online in both East and West, an electrician is looking into 12 rooms which have legacy wiring issues. Please give it a test over the weekend and let us know any issues via Read more…
We now have an agreed schedule of work by our suppliers (LAN3) to work on the new College wireless network. Our suppliers are planning on working on the wireless network within College starting on 9th October fitting new equipment to each room in the ROQ buildings, moving on to the Read more…
Self-service printing facilities are available to all members of the college at: https://papercut.some.ox.ac.uk/user. This offers mobile printing functionality, so any member of the College can upload and print documents in various formats. You can access the service with your SSO account and password, allowing you to print without the need Read more…
Status Autumn 2016 Somerville was the first college at Oxford to install site-wide wi-fi back in 2011. We installed wi-fi access points (APs) throughout the college. By 2017 they were approaching end-of-life and were quickly becoming inadequate for the amount of internet traffic being carried on ever-increasing numbers of devices. Read more…
If you are having trouble getting online in Somerville come to the IT Helpdesk. The IT Helpdesk is located in Maitland 1A and the opening hours for the next few days are: Friday 29th September 12:00 to 13:00 & 13:30 to 14:30 Monday 2nd October 12:00 to 13:00 & 13:30 Read more…
We had hoped by now to be able to let you know that all the wi-fi issues that we have been experiencing over the past few months have been successfully tackled. Unfortunately I am afraid that this is not the case. We carried out extensive surveys and college-wide testing over Read more…
Eduroam is a global wireless roaming consortium which gives members of education and research access to the internet for free on all eduroam hotspots on the planet. There are several million eduroam users already, enjoying free internet access on more than 6,000 hotspots! Eduroam is available all over Oxford University Read more…
Before You Start: Check that you understand the IT rules and that your computer’s security accords with our minimum requirement (see computer requirements) Ensure you have activated your SSO Username and password. This is the username of the form: ‘some1234’ or ‘lina4567’. (If you don’t have one, please see the Read more…