Re:Where's the problem here? (Score 3, Informative)

I, for one, used to live oncampus, and got tired of dealing with the apartment complex. The problem is that the buildings are owned (some of them) by the university, but leased out to the complex, Waterview Park Apartments. I'm looking at my old copy of my lease, and it says "This lease contract is between you, the resident ____________ and us, the owner: Waterview Park". I know that many of us had problems with the apartment complex and took them to the University. However, the university's take on it is that they don't control the buildings or the maintenance, and have no juristiction over them. Their police department patrols them, and you can be subject to discipline for underage drinking in them, but their main take on it so far (at least they tell the students) that if you have a problem with something in the apartments than you should "take it to the leasing office". I, and many others, moved out of there because of this. And, on the issue of wireless, I do remember 2.4Ghz phones being a huge problem, because everyone's parents bought them for their kids before they went. I'll bet if they started taking those away, there'd be a lot less issues. Also, it was common knowledge (for us engineering/CS majors there) that all you had to do was browse the network (i.e. browse in Network Neighborhood) and you could access all the unsecured boxes out there that were just broadcasting their info for all to see. And, of course, you can take into effect that the #1 answer by their IR (Information Resources staff: http://www.utdallas.edu/IR is to either reboot it or use the computer lab. In fact, if you look at their FAQ, they have lots of detailed posts about Kung-Fu, but not too many on how to fix the wireless. Those of us who needed wireless help researched it ourselves and went through trial-and-error to get a solution.