On Wednesday, December 22 between 12:01AM and 4AM, Luther's Internet connection will experience several outages to allow our campus network firewall to be upgraded.
Tonight starting at midnight and lasting until approximately 2AM on 11/16, Luther's Internet connection will experience several short outages to allow maintenance to be performed on our campus network firewall.
Starting at 5:30 PM on Monday, October 18, ITS will be upgrading network switches and routers in Olin and the Library. During the upgrade, network and internet access will be unavailable in these buildings. The upgrade process is expected to be completed by 9:00 PM.
Update 7/2/2021 12:30PM: The network upgrade in main is completed. On Friday July 2, from 8AM until approximately 2PM, ITS will be working to upgrade network equipment in Main. Both the wired and wireless network in Main will be unavailable during the duration of the upgrade. If you have trouble printing after the upgrade please try turning your printer off and back on again.
On Friday July 9, 2021, and Wednesday July 14, 2021, ITS will be working to upgrade our Network Access Control System. There will be short periods of time during both of these days where users will be unable to connect to the LCWireless and LCSecure wireless networks. If you’re already connected to LCWireless or LCSecure or using a wired connection, you should have uninterrupted network access.
Update 3/5/2021 7:30AM -- The upgrade is complete and all service should be functional again.
On Friday March 5, 2021 starting at 6AM, ITS will be upgrading our Network Access Control system. During short portions of the upgrade process computers may be unable to make new connections to the LCWireless and LCSecure wireless networks.. The upgrade process is expected to be completed before 8:00AM. For updates on this upgrade see http://www.luther.edu/its/blog/
This past summer, a wireless access point was added in Jenson Noble Classroom 123. This improves wireless coverage and signal strength in that classroom, and will also increase the number of devices that can simultaneously access the wireless network
The wireless network in Olson was upgraded this past summer. The upgraded network now features 802.11AC (Wifi 5) support in all areas. This will increase speed and improve signal strength.
On Thursday, August 13, 2020, starting at 11:00 p.m. and lasting until 1AM on August 14, maintenance will be performed on our Internet connection. Access to the Internet will not be down the entire time, but there will be multiple short outages during the maintenance period and you should avoid using the system