Our campus network encompasses all Halls of Residence, Graduate Housing, Staff Quarters, Laboratories, Staff Offices and also common areas or locations like the libraries, tutorial rooms, lecture theatres, etc. It links an area covering over 200 hectares and more than 50 buildings on campus.
On this wired network you can send/receive e-mails, do file transfers, access our e-services, online resources and materials on the Intranet or Internet.
Network points are also provided in all rooms of Halls of Residence, Graduate Housing or Staff Quarters. This network is available 24 by 7, providing you a reliable, efficient and open, collaborative computing environment for you to communicate with others on campus and the world throughout.
Bigger Internet bandwidth for faster Internet surfing
The Internet bandwidth has been upgraded in August 2003 to 86Mbps, or a 215% increase over the previous 40Mbps subscription. This works out to be 3.3Kbps per user if the whole campus community of 26,000 users are concurrently surfing Internet. However, based on the usual number of about 2000 campus users surfing Internet at the same time, each user can enjoy an average transmission speed of about 43Kbps. In addition to the 86Mbps pipe, the dedicated pipe for research projects that need connectivity to the high-speed Internet2 in United States was also upgraded from 5Mbps to 10Mbps.
We hope you'll enjoy exploring our campus network and the Internet beyond! Check out those links on your left now.