The campus wireless network has been shut down the week of Oct. 15–19 to make Internet available across campus.

Information Technology started phase one of the project on Monday, which focuses on upgrading the network core hardware. The hardware controls all the wireless access points around campus, approximately 110 access points, according to Michael Dye, chief information officer.

During phase one 10 access points will be added to to campus. Dye said he is hoping by the fall of 2013 the campus will be 100 percent covered, with 225 access points.

“You come outside to the courtyard by the fountain, and you go over to Clark Student Center and maybe you have to go over to the Wellness Center and you have a continuous signal all the way through and across that,” Dye said.

Dye said the hard part of this process was not having students log-in and out of the wireless Internet network, just because they changed campus locations.

“When you left one location and went over to south-campus for instance, you don’t have to put your username and password in again. It’s still going to remember, ‘oh yeah, you’re on.’”

To achieve this goal, the project is still waiting for approval of additional funding for phase two of $250,000 by the Board of Regent, according to Dye.

Phase one is also upgrading the Network Access Control.

“This is to help prevent somebody from gaining access to that network that really shouldn’t have or doesn’t have authorization to be on that network,” said Dye.

To accommodate the lack of wireless signal, the computer lab in the student center is open an additional two hours.

During this week it closes at 2 a.m. instead of midnight.