“It was a little annoying because I was unable to access songs off of the course website,” Cooley said. “But I know that the computer people work hard to fix these problems as quickly as possible.”

Davis said that there has been an effort to improve the consistency and reliability of computer services at Harvard by adding more backup systems.

“Over the last couple of years we have been increasing our redundancy,” Davis said. “Campus-wide network outages have been much fewer this year than in previous years.”

Davis also said that Harvard has spent a lot of money to install devices that provide uninterrupted power supply in case of a power outage.

However, he said it is impossible to prevent network problems everywhere at all times.

“There are over 500 wireless access points, and it doesn’t make sense to spend thousands of dollars to back up all of these access points,” Davis said.

One thing that Davis can say for sure, though, is that the recent problems are not a result of the heavy traffic on the popular website, the facebook.com.

“I can unequivocally say the answer is no,” Davis said. “There’s no connection between them.”