The New and Improved Wi-Fi Network at SLAS
By Anthony Yates
O
ver the Christmas holiday, the administration
installed a completely new Wi-Fi system into
Livingston. Some of you may have noticed how
there are no longer individual room Wi-Fi connec-
tions. Now, we have a completely new Wi-Fi network
labeled “SLAS-Students” and “SLAS-Staff.”
done by having routers connected to every single
room. This was a problem as there would have been
many conflicting networks resulting in slow internet
speed. However, with the new Wi-Fi system, there
is only one network and it covers the entire school
campus.
You may also have noticed how the internet speed Much of the funding for the new Wi-Fi system, as
has increased drastically. Students no longer need well as for other new tech on campus (e.g. new iP-
to use their hotspots for internet access.
ads, laptops, etc), comes from the yearly technolo-
gy fee of 1,800 RMB. Even with the funding from the
Throughout the Christmas holiday, workers com- technology fee, Mr. Carlton has stated that the ad-
pletely rewired the network system and structure. ministration used much more money than the tech-
They also improved on network security. In the nology fee budget gave.
three weeks of doing this, they increased the speed
of the internet from a slow average of 4-8 MBPS Mr. Carlton said, “Though we can’t change the build-
(megabytes per second) to a dramatic average of 90- ing of the school, we can change what’s inside the
120 MBPS. Mr. Carlton stated that they have spent building – and hope everyone benefits from it.”
around 400,000 RMB implementing this new system.
To fully understand the new system, we must first
see what the old one was like. In the past, each
classroom had an independent network. This was