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Numbers of Participants 25 20 15 10 5 0 22 Connection speed of WLANs on campus 4 11 No idea very slow slow Medium/OK Fast Detailed Figure 4- 10: Connection speed of WLANs on campus In fact, it is recommended that “for an 11Mbps 802.11b network, the best possible throughput is 6Mbps” (Wireless, 2007). � Satisfaction with on-campus WLANs: Four participants felt the campus WLANs were very poor and seven felt they were poor; 29 participants were satisfied, 18 said it was good and six felt it was very good. Numbers of Participants 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Satisfaction with WLANs services on campus 4 7 55 29 Very poor Poor OK Good Very good Figure 4- 11: Satisfaction with WLANs services on campus 8 18 7 6 12
4.2 Qualitative data findings 4.2.1. Observations � Beginning of the semester The first observation for this research was carried out for a period of four weeks at the beginning of one semester. The researcher spent two weeks on each campus. The first two weeks (from 25 Feb 2008 to 09 Mar 2008) were on Mt. Albert Campus and then the following two weeks were on Waitakere Campus. During the four weeks of observation, there was one public holiday from 21 st to 24 th of March. There were almost no wireless users on this public holiday. According to the observation, there were more people using WLANs on campus at noon than at any other time of the day. There were hardly any users on both campuses on Sundays and Mondays. There were more users on Mt. Albert Campus than on Waitakere Campus. � Mid term to the end of semester – observed students when taking surveys and interviews The second observation was completed during the semester when the researcher was doing surveys and interviews for this research. There were obviously more users of WLANs at the end of semester than at the beginning of the semester. The users of WLANs increased during the semester. The number of users was highest towards the end of the semester. There were more than twenty users of WLANs at the same time when the semester ended. Based on the results of observation, the users of WLANs on both campuses 56
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