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Rucy Liu


NEWS 1/27/11 6:00pm

Network fails, revived

Students and faculty across campus started reporting issues with Internet connectivity last Monday night around 9 p.m. A computer bug had caused the firewall to go down. The lagging network was especially apparent when browsing graphically intensive websites such as Facebook and YouTube. After troubleshooting, Information Technology determined that the firewall needed to be rebooted in order to fix the problem.Networking Manager Dylan Jacob said websites would take a long time to load, if at all.