Princeton Bans Apple iPad From Campus

[Xombie]

<p>Thought this was interesting.</p>

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You’d think iPads might be banned by schools because they distract students, but George Washington University and Princeton University have both put the kibosh on them because their Wi-Fi networks are way overloaded since the launch.</p>

<p>Bandwidth overload is a problem we’ve all encountered, but you’ve got to really feel sorry for those students trying to access internet—for proper school reasons—from their laptops, but are booted off because all their peers have now got 'Pads.</p>

<p>Princeton University has blocked around 20 per cent of iPads from being able to access the network, and George Washington doesn’t support any Apple products, apparently. Cornell University’s information-technology director Steve Schuster said they had similar problems when the iPhone launched, but is “working to ensure the iPad does not have devastating consequences to our network.”

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[randombetch]

<p>Uh, no? Anyone is free to carry their iPads anywhere they want at Princeton. Some of them just have network problems.</p>

[corale05]

<p>I think ipads are a bit silly but other than that, I love apple products!</p>

[pigs_at_sea]

<p>yo random betch!^ So if you’re on your laptop and in the middle of working on a paper, it’s ok for you to not have internet access because other people are playing around with iPads?</p>

[briangt]

<p>Princeton’s 2.2 mill/student endowment can’t cover a router per student?</p>

[randombetch]

<p>Huh? When did I say that? I’m just saying that iPads have not been “banned” at all.</p>

[ray121988]

<p>randombetch is right; just the other day, I was having lunch at my club and one of my friends was showing us videos on his new iPad.</p>