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College to Deploy First 802.11n Network

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the jumping-in-feet-first dept.

Matt writes "Morrisville State College, a New York State school in central New York, is partnering with Meru Networks and IBM to deploy the first 802.11n wireless network. They will be using around 900 access points and are planning to go live this fall."

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  1. hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    900 access points. That's a lot.

    Anyway, first post. Yo.
    The second poster is gay btw.

    1. Re:hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh the irony...

    2. Re:hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      This post is so hilariously ironic...

    3. Re:hello by nrgy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well I would say he is coming out of the closet but unfortunately he posted anonymously.

    4. Re:hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      What a pity this mod doesn't have a good sense of humour .. :(

  2. Whoa by xhydra · · Score: 2, Funny

    Charlie Bravo 1537.......... Calling on all wardrivers to Morrisville Over and out * static*

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  3. **AA by FredDC · · Score: 4, Funny

    The **AA have already sent notices to reveal the people who are going to accessing one or more of the 900 access points. They're gonna sue every single one of them for possible future copyright violations.

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  4. In later news by clickclickdrone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Johnny, aged 17 noted 'everytime I go to collage I get a funny tingling in my brain like I'm being slowly microwaved to death.' Students have also been complaining about a blue glowing around anything electrical and a curious crackling noise in the background.

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  5. Re:They came from 2 mbit by lousyd · · Score: 3, Funny

    They have nearly filled the alphabet btw. Only 802.11z is still free as a name. Can you name them all ?

    This just begs the obvious answer:
    802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11c, 802.11d, 802.11e...

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  6. First 802.11n network? by sagei · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first 802.11n network?

    I have one in my house.

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  7. Re:remember 33k? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    haha, you use windows

  8. Re:They came from 2 mbit by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Now I know my 802.11a 802.11b 802.11cs / Next time won't you changeyourSSIDfrom'linksys'andenablesomefreakingse curityonyouraccesspoint for me.

  9. Re:Pioneers? Sure, but.... by kobaz · · Score: 2, Funny

    They also gave out free (although horribly admin-locked) laptops to students. I don't know about you guys, but i had mine unlocked after the first week after I asked a buddy at the helpdesk for the bios password. I had linux up and going even before I had the bios password. Those things weren't as locked down as they appeared to be.

    Since I lacked pci wireless cards I used my now linux lappy as a router for the rest of the computers in my room. That worked out quite well. And if you really needed to get into the bios, you used the control panel irq config to set all the irq's on the board to "none". Reboot. The bios now says, irq failure, entering bios config... done and done. I can't take credit for that one though, someone else had tried that to see what would happen and noticed that the bios wouldnt ask for a password.
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