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Residential Computing Facts & Stats

All of Willamette's residence halls, with the exception of Haseldorf Apartments, are wired to the campus network, giving all resident students free access to the internet from their dorm rooms.

  • Each dorm room is equipped with 10/100 Megabit-per-second network access (one port per pillow), and the halls are connected together via Gigabit ethernet. The campus is connected to the Internet through four T1 lines (1.5 Megabits each).

  • 89% of resident students brought a computer to campus in 2002-03.
    • Of 1185 resident students, 1059 had at least one computer connected to ResNet, and there were 1180 computers connected in total.

  • About 90% of students use Windows PCs. About 10% use Macs.

  • About 45% of students use laptop computers. About 55% use desktops.
    • The number of laptop users has increased from about 1/3 in 2001-02, to almost half in 2002-03.

  • 449 students connected to BlitzNet, Willamette's wireless network, in 2002-03.
    • 105 of these were undergraduate students
    • 390 were graduate students
    • The number of BlitzNet users has increased from 330 in 2001-02 to 449 in 2002-03.
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Last Updated 06/13/03 (aawhite)

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