Free to Roam
Harvard currently requires students to individually register each connection in the beginning of the school year and file a request if they wish to switch jacks. Such requests typically take one or two days to process.
This precludes students from using their own computers in libraries and other common spaces.
Many other schools, such as Yale and MIT, already use roaming system, but Harvard Law School is the only school in the University that is currently configured for roaming access.
The rest of FAS awaits an overall system upgrade to a "switched network," which is currently being implemented.
"We hope to have full-fledged roaming ready for the fall term," says Director of FAS Computer Services Frank M. Steen says.
Steen adds that HASCS is considering smaller projects such as upgrading parts of the library this term, though he stresses that much work remains to be done.
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