There are some power problems affecting users in Tottenham place. A call has been logged with building services, and hopefuly should be fixed soon.

UPDATE : service was restored by 18:00

This week we are upgrading some of the networking equipment serving Unite House, Deans Court, Chantry Court and Winkworth House.

30/08/07 - Deans Court - between 11:00am - 12:00am users may have noticed some downtime as equipment was upgraded.

30/08/07 - Chantry Court - between 15:00pm - 17:00pm users may have noticed some downtime as equipment was upgraded.

I have just been informed that our main comms cabinet at Badock hall has been affected by a power outage. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do until the electricians get the power working again.

So there will be no ResNet anywhere in Badock hall until power is restored.

There is a power cut affecting Winkwork House at the moment. SWEB know about the problem and are working on it..

Obviously this effects resnet in the building, and probably the computers that want to use ResNet.

Some of the equipment serving the Langford residences will be switched off tomorrow morning (11/07/07) at around 8am. This is due to an upgrade of the UPS for this equipment. The downtime is expected to be very short (less than 10 minutes).

We have just been informed that Unite House have scheduled work on their power supply today. Therefore Unite House will have no network connectivity for the duration of this work.

I have been told the work is predicted to last from 10am to 3pm.

At 9:00 am on the 30th May we plan to reboot one of our main routers.

There should only be a small break in service as most traffic will be re-routed.

Unfortunately the 'Freewire TV' service will be interrupted for the full length of the reboot.

This will also affect the UoB Wireless service in the Halls (The rest of the campus Wireless will not be affected).

The reboot was completed by around 9:10am, all services are now restored.

We have now enabled the clifton and centre halls for ResNet IPTV.

See here for more information:

TV on ResNet trial extended

Up until last wednesday ResNet relied on a collection of proxy servers to provide access to websites on the internet. But applications like itunes and msn messenger didn't work very well with proxy servers. So we have decided to unblock port 80 on the University firewall and allow ResNet users direct access to websites.

This should mean that your software will now work more reliably, and there is no longer any need to configure proxy server settings in your web browser.  But it is possible that there may be performance issues, caused by the lack of proxy servers.

We are going to be keeping a very close eye on the situation, and are prepared to roll back to using the proxy servers if there does seem to be a substantial increase in latency or packet loss.

From 11am this morning we have reduced the upload limits to around 4Mbps per user. This is in response to poor performance last night due to yesterdays changes.

We noticed an increase in the dropped packets on our link to the Internet that is probably due to the increased load. We have also had reports of greatly increased response times.

Again, we shall be monitoring these changes closely to make sure there are no further problems.