University of Bristol Wireless http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk News and information about the University of Bristol's wireless network and related services. Includes details of planned outages and maintenance as well as information about any unexpected problems that may occur. Tue, 14 May 2013 10:49:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 New wireless this week (4/26) http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/04/26/new-this-week-426/ http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/04/26/new-this-week-426/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:20:08 +0000 James http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/?p=5306 This week wireless has been installed to cover three areas:
  • Rooms 4.30, 4.38 and 4.41 in Physics
  • The main office in the Multifaith Chaplaincy
  • The Will’s Hall Dining Room

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All networking, including wireless, has been removed from 32 Tyndalls Park Road (previously the language centre) whilst it is refurbished.

]]> http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/04/19/new-this-week-419/feed/ 0 April 17th, 12:00: Network outage affecting Stoke Bishop – Resolved http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/04/17/stoke-bishop-fibre/ http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/04/17/stoke-bishop-fibre/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:00:40 +0000 James http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/?p=5292 At 11:53 this morning the network links that connect the residences and offices at Stoke Bishop to the rest of the campus stopped working – it appears that all the optical fibres have been severed somewhere between Stoke Bishop and the Precinct. This means that all wired, wireless and most telephone services at Stoke Bishop are currently out of action.

More information about this will be posted on the IT Services News pages and the ResNet Blog.

UPDATE 18:30: All services have been restored. The optical fibre link was reconnected at 17:59, and the network topology had re-converged by 18:02 – All wired connections started working at this time. The wireless access points take a few minutes to fire up and will have been working before 18:10.

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More information about scheduled IT maintenance can be found on ITS News.

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]]> http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/03/16/new-this-week-315/feed/ 0 Unscheduled site-wide wireless outage (March 13th, 15:19) http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/03/13/fr-blip/ http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/03/13/fr-blip/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:08:38 +0000 James http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/?p=5272 This afternoon between 15:19 and 15:28 a problem with one of our core network devices required a backup device to take over – this happened automatically and the network connection for all wired users and services continued to function seamlessly. However, at the same time the link between the backup device and the wireless system was being upgraded, a task that only takes minutes.

The unfortunate coincidence of these two events meant that the wireless service was affected and was out of action site-wide from 15:22 until 15:35. Some wireless devices will also have needed a minute or two to re-connect after service had returned, extending the apparent outage.

IT Services apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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  • The Powell Lecture Theatre
  • The Mott Lecture Theatre
  • Additional capacity within the Tyndall Lecture Theatre

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  • The Recital Room
  • The Octagon
  • The Front Foyer
An additional access point has also been installed in the Victoria Rooms Main Auditorium to provide for a higher number of simultaneous users there.

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]]> http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/01/25/new-this-week-125/feed/ 0 Electrical maintenance affecting eduroam in UH-Bristol locations (January 17th) http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/01/10/ubht-electrical/ http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/blog/2013/01/10/ubht-electrical/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:00:49 +0000 James http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/?p=5192 On January 17th at approximtely 11:00 and 15:00 electrical work will be taking place that may interrupt the eduroam wireless service at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UHBristol) eduroam locations. Any breaks in service should last less than 15 minutes.

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