Tom,
I am glad to here this issue isn't quadrant based. Being in the northwest quadrant, I too have had several problems consistently accessing the internet in my lab. The last 2 Mondays have not been fun at all, and using Discovery Oneplace is problematic as I think my use in the lab is again overloading the server, which has half of my computers accessing the other half frustrated with blank windows.

Gwynn

This may not be the place to raise this issue, BUT-

The last two Mondays (11/2/09 and 11/9/09) the district network has had significant issues preventing staff and studnet logins. Additionally, we at Rangeview are seeing frequent browser error messages indicating that the connection to the Internet is lost. How widespread is this problem? What is the condition of our infrastructure? These frequent problems make it difficult to implement Web 2.0 technologies and cripple our classes which use net… Continue

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