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Intel Ranks Colleges with Best Wireless Access

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the fountains-of-knowledge-where-students-come-to-drink dept.

newdamage writes "Intel recently released it's ranking of The Most Unwired College Campuses and I was happy to see my school, Purdue, up there at #2. I can personally attest that my laptop w/ wireless card can be used over almost all of the main campus, and there's always a few people in lecture using laptops to access notes and take extra notes. Granted all I've found is that internet access in class just gives me a better way to not pay attention. What are other peoples' experiences with wireless access on their campus? Is there widespread coverage, and if so, does it help you get more school related work done by having your laptop connected where ever you are on campus?"

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  1. MIT = 26? by matth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wonderful what kind of technology they are teaching there? Obviously not wireless computers :P

    1. Re:MIT = 26? by matth · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well trying to use wireless in an area where the campus is not is definately going to result in it being bad :) Probably got some stupid kids open access points LOL

    2. Re:MIT = 26? by cpmte · · Score: 5, Funny

      I really like the message displayed while loading a map: "Please wait while a large software vendor in Seattle takes over the world"

  2. What this means for prospective students by Spatula+Sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    is that now they can choose schools based on those that are willing to offer them their porn how they want it, where they want it. And they want it.

  3. My school made it! by jm92956n · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, we're number 97, but at least we made the list. Take that number 98!

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  4. Such naivete is quite touching! by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 4, Funny
    and there's always a few people in lecture using laptops to access notes and take extra notes.
    Er...um...that's a little naive isn't it!
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  5. What's next by mst76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft ranks colleges with Best Windows/Office/Visual Studio education?

  6. Re:negative wording by FrYGuY101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But that would go against Intel's current Centrino marketing! GOD FORBID, you HEATHEN!

    *blink* Oh, sorry. Marketing demons possessed me for a second.

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  7. My University is misspelled by zaphod8829 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Number 50 on the list is University if Missouri-Columbus.

    I've lived in misery (ahem: Missouri) all my life, and don't know of this college, though I do attend the University of Missouri-Columbia.

    (Well, I pay them, anyway. I rarely _attend_.)

    I'm not exactly loyal, but damnit, I want my crappy college spelled right!

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  8. Re:Man... by FrYGuY101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't be too hard on him... he's under double secret probation...

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  9. lucky punks by joe_bruin · · Score: 5, Funny

    you kids these days have it all.

    back in my day, if you wanted to download porn, you had to wait until your roommate left for class, and then search for it on usenet. and if you got a single download that wasn't corrupt, you'd consider yourself lucky! nowadays with bittorrent and kazaa, life is so easy. if i had wireless access campus-wide, i might have spent alot more time in the classroom (my apartment had the four of us on a single dialup connection).

  10. Re:Actually, Stanford is 68th ... by belphegore · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the article:
    The results were also based on the percentage of each college campus that is covered by wireless technology.
    Yes, at 8,800-odd acres of total campus size, the criteria are a little stacked against the Cardinal.
  11. Re:Pointless by momerath2003 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, the list mentioned it was based partly on the ratio of access to the number of people attending.

    Were you the only student at LSU at the time?

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  12. Reminds me of a joke... by cide1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I'm really tired of the Universities on the West/East coasts pissing on the Midwest Universities."

    Reminds me of a joke...

    "Which way do I leave from?"
    "Here at Harvard, we don't use prepositions to end our sentences."
    "Alright. Which way do I leave from, asshole?"

    (Purdue, thinking were better than the people who think they are better than us since 1869.)

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  13. Re:Actually, Stanford is 68th ... by wwwillem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh my god, the duck in the pond has no WiFi...... we have to deduct points naturally :-)

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  14. Re:Rochester Institute of Technology by mattlary · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard they're planning to use The Sentinel as an antenna FR

  15. What an American List.. by kiwioddBall · · Score: 3, Funny

    Meanwhile, the rest of the world still uses tins and strings/smoke signals to communicate (apparently).

  16. Re:2 from Indiana? by lowe0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh God, tell me about it. Every time I leave campus and cross the river into Lafayette, I feel like I'm on the set of "Deliverance."

  17. Re:Marketing demons and reality by d99-sbr · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, I believe you're confusing it with zombo.com.