by Nate Morotti
SJSU’s Wi-Fi system and I have always had a love-hate relationship.
The experience of interacting with it is somewhat akin to finding out that you got food poisoning from your favorite restaurant: Everything is fine and dandy until something hits the wrong spot, whether it is food or a wireless Internet .
Overall, using the school wireless network is not a bad experience.
It’s fast, reliable, and as long as you remember your student number and password it’s easy to gain access to.
Probably the biggest benefit of using the campus wifi is the fact that almost every building on campus has their own set of wireless routers inside them, allowing almost uniform reception throughout the facilities.
Then you hit a dead zone.
In my experience dead zones on campus are few and far apart, such as the main office of Tower Hall or a certain Clark Hall classroom.
But that doesn’t stop them from being so amazingly rage-inducing that it seems like the world is out to get you, especially when you’re in class at 7:30 a.m. and all you want to do is check to see whether you have a test that day.
The one thing about the campus wireless system that has been consistently off-putting to is that it’s not available anywhere past the first floor of any of the Campus Village buildings.
This might be one of the most ingenious marketing ideas the school has ever had.
Restrict the campus-wide high speed internet while making students who live here use the slowest internet possible, and then if they want a high speed connection, make them either leave their building or purchase an upgrade for $24.99 per month.
That is a genius idea befitting a Bond villain.
