Have you been experiencing issues while trying to gain Internet access campus-wide?
Are you familiar with that good old Clean Access agent login screen? Or how about the connection diagnosis that is never diagnosed? Do the aforementioned upset you passionately?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, chances are you’ve had multiple encounters with Cisco Systems’ Clean Access program here on campus.
The program that was installed supposedly to protect our computers from viruses, seems to have done everything but, including frequently denying Internet access to students campus-wide.
True enough, the updates that come with the program are a complete bonus, for both safety and financial reasoning, but it seems as if something is still “fishy” about the program.
It’s amazing how you can download hundreds, maybe even thousands of updates, but still can’t get one signal connecting you to the Internet.
To make matters even worse, the viewing of that login screen that just pops up at any given time has a tendency to get a bit irritating after a while.
Speaking as a journalist who wrote the original article explaining the school’s new cyber program, even I have trouble logging into the Internet.
Things have gotten so bad that now I can’t even gain access to the Internet in the comfort of my own dorm room, the place where I need it most.
During a conversation I had with a group of commuter students, I was told that they don’t even bother to bring their laptops to the main campus, because they have such a hard time gaining access to the Prairie View A&M University network.
As far as students on campus are concerned, multiple students have told me that they find themselves in S.R. Collins every week trying to fix a new problem that has presented itself that directly relates to problems with Clean Access.
With all of that being said, something has got to give, which is why I pose the question, what’s up with Clean Access?
Ryan Rudd
News Editor