You may have spotted that I missed my last blog in July. The reason was that I spent the first two weeks of the month in Cornwall enjoying a very relaxing holiday and missing much of the rain which, I was told, had fallen on Reading! Continue reading
Month: August 2012
Library Wifi upgrades
IT Services have been keenly aware of the feedback we have had from students about the level of wireless coverage in the library and have taken steps to improve this. This feedback has been in the form of Help tickets, national and local survey results and wifi feedback forms and it was clear that there was a serious issue to be resolved. Continue reading
Network issues 14 August 2012
On 14th August, a multiple hardware failure in one of the core network routers resulted in extended and widespread network and Internet access issues. Continue reading
Planned IT Disruption, 8-9 August 2012
Wednesday 8 August 2012
All the computers in the S@il area on the first floor of the library will have no network connection from 730am until 430pm.
Thursday 9 August 2012
All the computers in the S@il area on the ground floor of the library will have no network connection from 730am until 1130am.
This is for essential maintenance to be carried out.
We would like to apologise for any inconvenience.
IT Services
Decommissioning Suma3 aka ‘Main’
The University is decommissioning the remote access server “remote” and its central UNIX server “main” (aka “suma3”), and is replacing both with a more modern services.