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5.3 The behaviours of students who use on-campus WLANs The research shows that one third of participants used the on-campus WLANs every day; 9:00am to 10:00am was the busiest time for the wireless networks; and the duration of the use of the WLANs varied from less than 1 hour to all day. Many participants consider that the network traffic was slowed down by many students using the WLANs at the peak time. A significant proportion of students (45% of all participants and 6 out of 10 interviewees) were aware of the coverage of the WLANs from the “Wireless Zone” sign. The number of WLANs users, who had usually used the Internet at home before the WLANs were provided on campus, was the total of users who had accessed the Internet in the library, computer lab or Internet cafés. The on-campus WLANs mean a lot students have changed from staying at home to staying on campus, although almost half of the participants had at least one alternative Internet connection such as broadband or dialup at home. In addition, there were many computers available in the library, computer lab and Internet café. Lots of students switched their Internet connections from home, library, computer lab and Internet café to on-campus WLANs with their own laptops. As discussed in the previous section, many participants were in group meetings while they were surveyed. Of course, not all of the participants taking the same course were in groups. For example, among the six participants who were doing the Bachelor of Civil Engineering course, four were in two different groups when they were surveyed, and the other two were using the on-campus WLANs alone. In addition, most of the participants were surveyed in the library; this allowed the researcher find out that first of all, some students were forced to use the on-campus WLANs because of group assignments. Secondly, since the library was the most common place for research and doing assignments there were more users of on-campus WLANs there than in other places on campus. The second finding 95
explains why most of participants were surveyed in the library. Certainly, the findings above also applied to the interviewees. The researcher selected ten participants from different user groups of on-campus WLANs. Each of the ten interviewees was taking a unique course, though Participants MC and BC were both in the school of computing. As the study environments of Participants MC and BC were however quite different, the researcher believed they could represent different group of users. However although the study environment and conditions varied among the interviewees, the interview results still showed that the library was the most common place for study. We could conclude then that having wireless provision did not exclude the need to provide physical space or locations for students to work. The provision of a common work area is still needed with on campus wireless service. 5.4 Current WLANs challenges that students perceive 5.4.1. How could students get on the WLANs? The research showed that most of the participants did not know whether there were any terms and conditions for the use of on-campus WLANs. Of the ten interviewees, six knew nothing about it. Of the remaining four interviewees, two clearly stated that there were no terms and conditions at all and the other two stated that users must be students at Unitec and have their username and password generated by the IT department. There may be two reasons for this result. One is that some users were using the semi-trusted wireless network, and the other is that some users chose the easier way of getting connected to the UNITEC-HOTSPOT wireless network 96
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truly mobile computing solution”
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students, only 40 used all the band
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the faculty technology; it created
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academic that consider it from the
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WLANs on students, the interview wa
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