The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
NACS has offered dial-in access to UCInet for Faculty, Staff and Students for many years. In 1999, the service was substantially upgraded in response to recommendations from the Faculty Senate Computer Policy Committee, and the “Lifeline Modem Service” was born.
The Lifeline service is offered at no cost, but it comes with noteworthy restrictions, and does [...]
Need more than 7 hours of Prime Time per week? For those people needing more time online than is available through the UCI Lifeline Modem Pool, a good alternative is ZOTnet Internet Service. ZOTnet is an advantageous dial-up Internet provider for UCI faculty, staff, and students. For $14.95 per month the following features are included:
Unlimited [...]
Note: NACS no longer sells the Internet Application CD. You can still download current software from the Macintosh and PC archives.
For users of UCI network resources from off campus, NACS has developed the UCI Internet Applications CD. A successor to the former Anteater Access Toolkits (MAAT and WAAT), this CD collects into one place “the usual suspects” of Internet [...]
At the end of January 1999, NACS will be replacing the current 824-9000 and 824-8960 modem pools with a new, higher-quality, limited-access, modem service. The new service is the result of campus input and the recommendations of the Academic Senate Computer Policy Committee. It will utilize current-technology, V.90 56 Kbps equipment and support about 280 [...]
Early reports indicate the new two hour timeout on UCI’s 824-9000 modem pool has made a noticeable improvement in the availability of free modems during evening hours. Preliminary telephone company data indicates modem-users are encountering approximately 40% fewer busy signals since the timeouts were put in place. NACS will continue to monitor the situation during [...]
Currently, there are no plans to purchase additional modems or replace existing UCI modems with faster ones. NACS and others have examined these options, but no funding has been identified for modem improvements, and there are other considerations including a rapidly changing home-access market.
In 1995, NACS implemented a number of changes to deal with the frequent busy [...]