Word: networked
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Although students can connect to the Harvard network from any jack in their Houses, there are only a handful of roaming jacks in Lamont Library, and none in classrooms or popular study places such as Loker Commons or House dining halls...
Director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HASCS) Franklin M. Steen admits that roaming Ethernet capability may not be the most sexy change Harvard could make, but says ultimately, Harvard's network will be at the top of its game...
...change forced HASCS to redesign its net-connect utility, the program by which students register their computers and network connections when they get to campus. In the past, when students were assigned to specific data jacks, it took a day or two for their applications to be processed...
With the new roaming Ethernet program, students are on the network in an hour...
...Davis says he suspects there is plenty of roaming going on when students want to relocate their computers within their suite. If suite-mates decide to swap rooms mid-way through the year, for example, they no longer need to wait a day or two to reconnect to the network...