It seems to bother school pupils less than you'd think. One big number is much like another. Anyway, on 30 grand they only pay 67.50 a month - on a takehome of a bit over 2 grand. That's noise when you've not earned before.
Grief no, so uncool. Bedroom with en-suite bathroom and a flatscreen telly in the lounge is the minimum.
Owain
And wi-fi. Don't forget the wi-fi.
Students are paying £100+ per week for rooms in purpose built blocks of student apartments round here.
Nick
Y'mean daddy is paying?
+1
Wi-Fi? much to slow at least a 100Mbps wired into each room and with backhaul to support everyone streaming of iPlayer or YouTube.
Yep any place that has a half decent student population has had large numbers of student apartment blocks built in recent years.
Best days of my life in those digs.
I was quite pissed off when I learned that all the time we had spent studying kirchoffs etc was easily superceded by the elegance of millmans theorems
Eh? Millmans theorem IS Kirchoff and Ohm, for a special case.
Is that Adamspeak for max number of wimmen deflw/// d well U know what I mean;!...
Hah, The link might come up at 100Mbps - but Universities don't deliver a sustained 100Mbps to each room... most aren't even close (rate limited, traffic shaped connections).
Also, WiFi is what students want - wire connections are old hat and largely it's the WiFi service that they are requesting. We are currently rushing to deploy wireless to student rooms for the start of term.
Not a cheap project - and a logistical nightmare (over 1200 access points to install for a start - in buildings being used for conferences etc.)
It's been an interesting summer :-)
Yep, that's about normal (well, can't comment on the price, no idea what the rental is).
I think we still offer B&B type accommodation. Not really my area though :)
Darren
Self catered £99 to £154.
B&B £122 to £138.
Price depends on age of accommodation, size of room, whether it has private bath, etc.
But we are darn sarf.
We do (same 'we' as Darren). And they can opt out of breakfast and get a small meal credit.
And it will be so yesterday next year when the wimax laptops start to appear.
Who said anything about a sustained 100Mbps? I suggested enough backhaul for sustained 2Mbps or there abouts, but even that soon adds up over a close development of several 20 storey blocks of student accomodation.
That's 'cause the "can't live without" gadgets of smartphones or tablets don't have ethernet... How does a multi access point WiFi network handle
200 simultaneous streams of iPlayer?
One way would be 200 single access points. But something in between that and a multi access point would probably work for less. You need to know the shape of the building and what signal strengths you get before you can decide.
And Dennis gets it wrong again.
There are only three WiFi channels that don't mutually interfere with each other. So you only have about 150Mbps of over the air bandwidth to play with. Less with the overheads caused by in channel collisions when the load goes up. 200 simultaneous iPlayer streams needs something around
400Mbps...
only in one space. In rooms you can reckon that the actual reach of the wifi will be sod all. Especially if you go down on power a bit
I can barely get between here and the room next door. Foil backed plasterboard sees to that..
Hatfield ran *diploma* courses in 1960. I understood this was considered equivalent to a degree. The failed students turned up on our *block release* courses.
regards
In the city when I was at Uni, there was also a polytechnic; the two co-existed perfectly happily; essentially the two provided different courses for kids with different qualifications. Now of course, both are Unis and 'equal' and the relationship is completely different. My daughter is at the same Uni 30 years later, and reports that there's massive bad feeling between the two; for example nobody would dream of using the student union of the other institution, something that we did regularly without even thinking about it in my day.
Apparently there was even a 'varsity' rugby match last year at which the uni crowd were needling the opposition by chanting "Your dad works for my dad" at them. Unbelievable.
David
Yep, games consoles as well.
Of course, the next problem will be kindles - they don't support enterprise wifi so won't work anyway (working on that - multiple SSID for different options etc)
How does a multi access point WiFi network handle
Fine if done well. Obviously, there is the "but I can sort wifi out at home for 30 quid, why does it cost 2.5 million to do campus??" problem with that.
Many access points (thousands, at many hundreds of quid each), many very expensive wireless controllers (*very expensive*, *very clever*). Radio power dynamically controlled to ensure channel overlap is minimised in any area.
A lot of survey work. I don't fully understand the details, it's not my project. It does however appear to work fair better than wifi has any right to :-)
Did I mention it's quite expensive? :-)
Darren
Yeah yeah.
Be several years before that start to be an issue - if ever IMO.
Come back once Starbucks and McDs are offering WiMax.
Darren
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