Hillside/Woodside coming soon
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To all residents at Hillside/Woodside:
copy of letter sent by post last Friday.Â
Dear resident,
I’d like to apologise for the lack of an Internet connection at Hillside/Woodside so far this term. We will very soon be providing an ADSL connection for the house, which should be available by Fri 20th October. We will update you when the connection is ready for use, this is simply some advance warning.Â
There will be no charge to use the ADSL connection. We will provide network cables – to use it all you essentially need to do is connect the cable from your computer to your wall socket, and make sure your computer is set to “obtain IP address automatically†(the usual setting).Â
This is a shared connection, and will operate at a likely speed of 1 Mbit/sec, which is not much between 30 people. It should be adequate for email and web use, but not other applications. Anyone attempting to use filesharing programs to transfer large movies, music and other large files will completely swamp the connection and cause problems for everyone else. Please don’t do this! It is up to you as housemates to use the connection sensibly, we can’t enforce it.
The ADSL connection is a short-term measure and not up to the usual ResNet standards. We have a dedicated 10Mbit leased line on order for Hillside/Woodside, but installation of this is still some time off (we don’t have a confirmed date yet, but it should be some time in November or December). When this line is installed we will be able to offer a faster service, similar to ResNet in other student houses, and will begin collecting ResNet subscriptions at that point.
For anyone who has already paid a subscription to ResNet partial refunds may be available, but we will work these out when the faster connection is in place.