Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers

• Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Lots of schools have a “freshmen must live on campus” policy, at least.

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  • maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “schools” ? This is university. Quite surprising to hear that Universities would have a policy “freshmen MUST live on campus”. Must be some kind of extreme private boarding “school”. I feel bad for you if you went to such a Uni.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The state university in the town I live in has a policy that freshmen must live in the dorms unless they already live within city limits (small college town, so the university literally has a student body of about 1/2 the permanent residents of the town)

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    • computergeek125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is true of a even some public universities in the US. I can’t remember if it was a rule where I was, but definitely most freshman did just live in dorms.

      Lot of folks brought their own desktops to set up, and we were allowed Ethernet switches to hook up multiple devices - had to be wired. Wireless had two options, WPA# 802.1X or unencrypted captive portal guest. If your device didn’t support that, it had to be wired by policy.

      And they weren’t wrong, I did a radio scan and they had the full sized enterprise access points about as good as they could (with a few low signal exceptions, and the air waves were still overloaded with too many people. The building uplink was perfectly fine, it was just overcrowded wireless.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is common in America. We do it so that universities don’t have to compete with private landlords.

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• GeekFTW@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That is not universal. My local university forces you to pay to live on campus in the dorms for the first 2 years of your attendance regardless. You can choose to live elsewhere but you’re still paying the fees and no student is paying for two places to live lmao

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  • maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It sucks if the University you chose forced such rules on students and included dorm as part of the tuition expenses. I cant imagine people taking on student debt with such high tuition+boarding. I guess anyone accepting at that local University is forced into this situation.

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Completely irrelevant to your prior point of “you’re at Uni to learn AND NOTHING ELSE!!!”

  People live in the dorms, that is what they are for. Part of living is having down time.

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