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5.8 Summary This chapter showed the relationship between the sub-research questions and the survey and interview questions. The link between each question and the coding of data in each question helped the researcher to analyse the data gathered. It was easy for the researcher to look at a particular research question, and compare opinions from different participants on particular survey or interview questions. Based on the answers from the survey, there was no particular group of users of the on-campus WLANs. The users could be any students in any school and in any year of their course. The users could be any students who owned portable electronic devices with wireless capability. During the data analysis, the researcher identified a phenomenon that exists not only among the participants of this research but also in the academic literature. Based on the data gathered from 64 participants, users of the on-campus WLANs were varied, from different schools and different year of course; students had different reasons besides study, and students used laptops in classrooms, the library, the cafeteria and the residential village. Students who used on-campus WLANs had integrated the WLANs into their lives. In the academic literature, “Tech Check” (2007) reported that more students owned portable electronic devices; Brass (2004) stated that laptops had become must-have devices for students and Nisbet (2004) emphasised that students had to take laptops to class in two private schools. There are also many articles reported that many universities used and provided wireless networks for students and faculties. Not all the participants knew the exact restrictions or requirements for getting connected to the on-campus WLANs. Satisfactions with the on-campus WLANs varied from very poor to very good. This shows that student perception were quite different as the quality of the wireless networks was not stable when more users were connected. 107
This chapter integrates the concerns and opinions from participants with the technologies reported from academic literature to help educational institutions to improve their wireless networks and solve existing problems. Some of the participants considered that the current speed of on-campus WLANs was slow, the signal was weak, the coverage was limited and some classes prohibited student use of WLANs. The researcher found that similar problems had happened at other educational institutions and they had been solved. McLaughlin (2008) and Cox (2008) discussed adoption of the 802.11n technology for campus wireless networks; Campbell & Pargas (2003) mentioned that integrating laptops into lecture plans would help improve lecture experience; and Brawn et al. (2004) described a university using the 802.1x protocol for security protection. 108
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students?” The following are seve
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truly mobile computing solution”
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students, only 40 used all the band
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