Wiring in Houses will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, according to Dean Harry R. Lewis '68.
"If a master wants roving Ethernet in the House dining hall, that's fine," Lewis writes in an e-mail message. "If the House decides it would rather not, then that's fine with me too."
Most seem to agree that this planned expansion of the roaming system to more and more campus locations will increase the volume of student roaming.
But Gusmorino has his doubts.
"I don't think you're going to see anything more than minimal use of roaming Ethernet until they have wireless Ethernet," he says.
Wireless Ethernet--in which users access the network via an "air port"--is much more convenient for users and is cheaper to put in place than roaming, Gusmorino says.
According to Davis, the total physical cost of a single roaming Ethernet jack is about $300 to $400.
Wireless deployments, Davis says, are probably the main area of technology in which Harvard is behind other colleges.
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