January 30, 2004

Wireless Networks: Looking for Reliability

By FLORENCE OLSEN

As colleges extend their wireless coverage, more students carry laptops. And because the laptop is always at hand, any question that crosses a student's mind or any conversation that could be helped by having more information produces the response, "Why don't we Google it?"

Google, an Internet search engine, and wireless networks are immensely popular with Web-surfing students. But campus network officials say they

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