Wireless Networking at Claremont McKenna College

This page is intended for students, faculty, and staff of Claremont McKenna College.

Dorm rooms can become very distracting places to work, and many students prefer to study in other locations, such as the computer labs. A wireless network provides students more places to study on campus, and the ability to take work wherever they want to go is appropriate for a campus environment today. With the emergence of internet and web-based technologies as one of the main tools in research, network access forces students to work in their dorm rooms or computer labs. For those who find the dorms too noisy or who desire the companionship of group work, a wireless network will be a welcome addition.

At present, 18% of full-time faculty and 19% of full-time staff use portable computers as their primary workstation. Computing has become an essential part of the job that occurs in multiple locations: home, office, classroom, library, while traveling, and in public places on campus. A more traditional view of computing and internet access expects such work to occur only in the office or occasionally in a classroom. Such views are out of date, however; using a laptop computer or wireless PDA wherever necessary has become as essential and as commonplace to many students, faculty, and staff as a cell phone. Wireless networking is a basic utility for productive work.

The first phase of Wireless Network deployment was completed by the start of the 2004 Fall Classes.

Please check our FAQ page for more information.

To location wireless coverage on campus please see our Access Point Location page.

To configure your laptop and connect to CMCnet please see our Configuration and Connecting Documentation page.

Both the CMC Internal Wireless Network and the CINE network support WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy. Please see our Web Page on WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy.