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Many students in Adams House temporarily lost Internet access over the weekend after someone improperly connected a device—most likely a wireless router—to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) network...
Kevin S. Davis ’98, director of residential computing for FAS, said such disruptions most commonly result when students incorrectly plug their own wireless routers or access points—which are prohibited by Harvard FAS Computer Services (HASCS) rules—into the network...
Problems arise when students connect the wrong port of the device to their ethernet jack, causing these “fake” IP addresses to be broadcast over the wired network...
Computers connected to the FAS network must automatically obtain a new IP address every few hours. If a computer attempting to do this is near a device broadcasting erroneous IP addresses—in the same House, for example—one of these “fake” IP addresses typically reaches that computer before a valid address from the network server does, Davis said...
...said technicians who can “investigate and respond” to network disruptions are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week...