Wireless locations
The wireless service coverage varies from none at all to excellent, depending where you are. Generally, you can use the wireless wherever you find the signal, however your connection may be slow or unreliable if the signal is too weak.
Below is the list of locations that have good coverage, a map is also available. If you are having problems connecting, or your connection is unreliable, first make sure you are at a listed location, and then seek help.
Some locations have power sockets available for wireless users. These are indicated by this icon:![]()
Currently available hotspots
Please note: Some locations may be restricted to members of a certain department or require booking in advance. All hotspots support 802.11a,b,g unless marked as b/g only.
- Arts & Social Sciences Library
- All student areas on all floors
- Staff conference room (ground floor)
- Barley House & Oakfield House
- Oakfield House – 2nd Floor
- 25/27 Belgrave Road
- Common Room / Lounge
- Berkeley Square, No. 5
- Top of stairwell
- Berkeley Square, No. 8/10
- ESU
- ILRT
- Morse Room
- Berkeley Square, No. 12
- Geology and Geographical Sciences
- Berkeley Square, No. 35 (Graduate School of Education)
- Ground floor foyer
- Education library
- Various rooms on the 2nd & 3rd floors
- The open area with seating on the 4th floor
- Biological Sciences
- Library
- Labs: A89, A90, B80, D27, D33
- Common Room
- Burwalls
- Rooms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 10
- The Centenary Garden
- Adjacent to Will’s Memorial Building
- Canynge Hall (Department of Social Medicine)
- Library
- Rooms: LG.02, G.03, G1, 1.11, 3.11, 4.07
- Chaplaincy
- Ground floor level
- Chemistry Department
- West block:
- West Foyer
- 5th Floor teaching labs
- 6th Floor teaching labs
- Rooms: W214, W229, W233, W415
- Rooms: WS302, WS403
- East block:
- Room E204
- East Foyer (Outside LT1, LT2, LT3) (b/g only)
- South block:
- S2 Admin Lobby
- Rooms: S302, S401
- Synthetic building:
- N2 Corridor, near N221
- N4 Corridor, near N421
- Rooms: N328, N405, N517, N528
- Other areas:
- The Chemistry Library
- Main entrance foyer
- Rodway Cloister (courtyard area outside main entrance) (b/g only)
- West block:
- Computer Centre
Open 24 hours a day with the Bristol Access Number. Helpdesk available during office hours.- Ground floor stairwell area (Power sockets and seating provided. Skype / VoIP allowed)
- 24 hour computer room (Skype / VoIP not permitted)
- Ground and first floor training rooms
- Cotham House (Department of Psychiatry)
- Room 0.16
- Common Room
- IT office
- Dental School
- Dental Library
- Dental School Common Room
- Chapter House, level 1
- Dorothy Hodgkin Building
- Parts of the ground floor
- Drama Department
- Computer Room
- Theatre Collection
- Editing Suites
- Frenchay Hospital
- Dementia research – Day Hospital
- Neuropathology – Room 21
- Geographical Sciences
- Geographical Sciences Library: All study desks
- Committee Room
- Rooms: G.13N, G2.22N, 1.12N, 1.3N, 2.13N, 2.14N, 2.15N
- Peel Lecture Theatre
- Old Seminar Room
- New Seminar Room
- General Office
- Low Temperature Experimental Facility (LOWTEX)
- Personal Finance Research Centre (PFRC)
- Undergraduate Common Room
- Visitors Room
- Brown’s (Top Floor)
- Halls / Accomodation
The free campus wireless service is not available in any study bedrooms, only in the communal areas listed below. For wireless access in bedrooms, please refer to the ResNet wireless service.- Externally managed accomodation:
- Deans Court: The Common Room
- University managed accomodation:
- Badock Hall: The Terrace Room & Library (Main building) and the Severn Room & Old Library Room (Conference Centre)
- Clifton Hill House: “The Foyer”, the JCR and the Wardens residence office.
- Churchill Hall: The Library, the JCR and complete coverage of the grass area in the quad.
- Durdham Hall: Study room in block C and the Bar & BBQ area in the amenities block (b/g only)
- Goldney Hall: The Library, Common Room, Orangery and the Bar
- Hiatt Baker Hall: Library, TV Room, Bar area & Dining Hall
- Manor Hall: The Library and the TV room
- University Hall: Shaplands room, Paley room & Club 1909 (the bar area).
- The Hill: The hill between University Hall block 13-24 and Hiatt Baker F block up to the path running between Durdham and Wills Halls.
- The Holmes: Diva’s Room
- Will’s Hall: The JCR, the lounge, the quiet room and the UVW block conference facilities
- Externally managed accomodation:
- Hampton House
- Staff Room
- Lecture Room
- Level 3
- The Hawthorns
- The Refectory
- The Staff Club
- The Cabot Room
- The Brunel Room
- Howard House (Department of Mathematics)
- 4th & 5th Floors
- JISC
- Beacon House – 2nd Floor
- Langford
- Veterinary Science Library
- Communal Building, Dining Room (CARB #7155)
- Communal Building, Conference Room (CARB #7165)
- Language Centre (30/32 Tyndalls Park Road)
- Complete coverage of all four floors, including classrooms, common rooms and all but one office
- Mathematics Department
- 1st Floor foyer
- Heilbronn Suite
- Medical School
- Medical Library: Everywhere
- Level C, Common Room
- Rooms: E15, F22
- Histology Teaching Laboratory (TL 2.2)
- Physiology Teaching Laboratory (TL 3.10)
- Pharmacology Teaching Laboratory (TL 4.13)
- Merchant Venturers Building
- Foyer
- Level 1, Atrium (where all the seats are)
- Room 0.01
- 4th Floor (b/g only)
- 5th Floor (b/g only)
- Dynamics Lab
- The National Blood Service – Filton
- NBTFS
- NSQI
- Ground floor foyer
- Main Seminar Room
- Open plan office
- Qi-Seminar Room (Room 1.02)
- Room 2.02
- Wet Lab
- Old Park Hill
- Complexity Sciences
- Park Row, No. 29
- Department of Experimental Psychology
- Physics Building
- Physics Library – Reading room side only.
- Room G.45 (Provides cover for adjacent lecture theatres and the front of the building)
- Outside Room 3.30
- Room 4.30
- Priory Road, No. 1
- 1B
- 1C
- Priory Road, No. 2
- Ground & 2nd Floors
- Priory Road, No. 3
- Ground & 2nd Floors
- Priory Road, No. 4, 6, 7 and 8
- Full coverage
- Priory Road, No. 10
- Politics Department
- Priory Road, No. 11
- Careers service
- Psychology Department
- 1st Floor Teaching Room
- Queen’s Building
- The Foyer
- The Library
- Queens Building JCR (both levels)
- Main Electrical Lab
- Earthquake lab (Room 0.90)
- CDO
- ACT (both east & west)
- Pugsley Lecture Theatre (PLT)
- Ground floor: 0.09, 0.09a, 0.16, 0.24, 0.25, 0.36->0.41, 0.48->0.73
- First floor: 1.1->1.8, 1.15->1.19, 1.33, 1.55->1.69, 1.80
- Second floor: 2.11, 2.14, 2.20, 2.26, 2.80
- Royal Fort Gardens
- Majority of the lawn on the slope in front of Royal Fort House. (b/g only)
- Senate House
- Main foyer
- Basement (Office of the Bursar)
- 3rd Floor (RED Area)
- 5th Floor
- St. Michael’s Hill
- 39/41 St. Michael’s Hill
- 69 St. Michael’s Hill
- Students Union
- Bar 100
- Ground Floor Foyer, including the cafe area.
- 3rd Floor, Cafe Zuma area
- Southmead hospital
- Paul O’Gorman building, 1st floor
- Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Room A315
- Southwell Street (School of Veterinary Science)
- Top floor, outside the lecture theatres
- Tyndall’s Park Road, No. 34
- Full Coverage
- Victoria Rooms
- The main auditorium
- Victoria’s Room
- The Theatre Bar
- F14 Study Room
- Wills Memorial Building
- Wills Memorial Library (both Earth Sciences and Law wings)
- Reception room
- Great Hall
- Old Council Chamber
- Rooms L101, L106
- Rooms G4, G7, G8 and G19 (Earth Sciences Dept)
- Rooms 3.23, 3.30, 3.31, 3.32, 3.33
- Room 5.69
- Room “M”
- 1st floor Law common room
- Wills Memorial Library (both Earth Sciences and Law wings)
- Woodland Road, No. 3/5
- Arts Faculty Board Room
- Room G7
- Woodland Road, No. 7 (Arts Graduate Centre)
- Full coverage
- Woodland Road, No. 8
- Economics, Finance & Management (B & C Blocks)
- E block
- Deaf studies (F block)
- Woodland Road, No. 10
- Full coverage
- Woodland Road, No. 11
- Room B38
- Common Room, at the rear of the building
- Woodland Road, No. 12
- Full coverage
- Woodland Road, No. 13
- Small Library in the basement
- Woodland Road, No. 17
- Common Room, at the rear of the building
- Woodland Road, No. 19 (including the Arts Multimedia Centre)
- Rooms: G90, G94, G99, G99A, G100
- Arts Multimedia Centre – Coverage throughout
- Woodland Road, No. 43 (The Old Baptist College)
- The Tower Room
- The Resource Room
- Woodland Road, No. 81
- Engineering Management
- Woodland Road, No. 83
- Engineering Management

