As part of our regular maintenance routine, Information Services staff will be carrying out upgrade work on the wireless network (including the Network Access Control system) to improve compatibility and security. This work will take place during our usual at-risk period, between 07:30 and 08:30 from Tuesday until Friday this week. While this work […]
Category: Wifi
Maintenance on Stirling Campus Wi-Fi: Thursday 4th December.
Systems and Network Services will be performing some maintenance operations on the Stirling Campus Wireless Network (involving the ‘eduroam’ / ‘UoS Guest Internet’ and ‘UoS Multimedia’ networks) on Thursday 4th December between 0730 and 0830. While we are not expecting any downtime during the maintenance period, there is a small risk of an impact […]
Disruption to network services in RG Bomont building, Saturday and Sunday 22-23 November
Information Services has received notification from Estates & Campus Services that electrical testing work will be undertaken in the RG Bomont building this weekend. During the testing, there will be a loss of power to network equipment located within the building causing an interruption to network services including the following: Wired network – PCs […]
Beware Androids bearing lollipops
Information Services would recommend that Android users do not upgrade to the latest version of the operating system, Android 5.0 also known as Lollipop. Initial testing has shown that the software used to provision eduroam will not run on this operating system, as a consequence all attempted installs will fail. We are currently working […]
New Wi-Fi service – it’s getting closer!
As we get closer to the launch of the new on campus Wi-Fi solution (going live by the end of this week), here is some information about the new service: You should only have to set up each of your devices once, thereafter they’ll connect automatically to our eduroam network Basic principle will be […]
New Wi-Fi service COMING SOON
You may be aware that the University has been undertaking a massive project of Wi-Fi expansion over the summer. This new service will provide a means of connecting your devices (Laptops and Mac Books, smartphones, tablets and even gaming consoles) to the university network to gain internet access. The new Wi-Fi service is due […]
IS needs you! We’re recruiting…
Are you a current student at the university with a sound understanding of connecting devices including laptops, MacBooks, iphones, ipads, smartphones and so on to the network? If so, we want to meet you! We are currently looking to expand our team of student IT Assistants for work at the start of the […]