Residence Hall Network Overview

ITS provides wired and wireless network services in the Bellarmine, Campion, Chardin, Douglas, Murphy Apts, and Xavier residence halls. Third-party wired and wireless access is provided to the Vi Hilbert Hall apartments, Kolvenbach houses, Logan Court condominiums, and Yobi apartments.

Please review this support article to understand what form of network connectivity is provided for various device types and who supports the connectivity.

Wired Network in Bellarmine, Campion, Chardin, Douglas, Murphy Apts, and Xavier:

• One network jack is available per student.  One or more jacks may also be available in select common areas such as lounges, study rooms, or lobbies.

• Internet access from a Reshall wired network jack does not require any authentication

• Each wired network jack will provide 85-95Mbit/sec throughput

• Review ResHall Wired Network Jacks to see where to connect your wired device

Wireless Networks in Bellarmine, Campion, Chardin, Douglas, Murphy Apts, and Xavier:

• Devices must support 5GHz or 6GHz WiFi. We no longer use 2.4GHz for WiFi.

• Two WiFi networks are available in the Reshalls above: SU-secure and SU-visitor

• SU-secure

  • Recommended for use by computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones

  • Requires authentication with a valid SeattleU username and password

  • There is no bandwidth (throughput) restriction applied to your SU-secure connection(s)

• SU-visitor

  • Requires device registration instead of user authentication

  • There is a 100Mbit/sec bandwidth (throughput) restriction applied to each SU-visitor connection

  • SU-visitor has two use cases:

    • Internet access for devices that are not compatible with SU-secure (such as using only a password to access a WiFi network), or are used daily or multiple times each week and the process of re-registering a device every 24 hours would be inconvenient. Such devices include gaming consoles, entertainment systems, audio/video streaming devices, TVs, personal assistants, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

    • Short term ad-hoc use by visiting family members, friends, or summer event attendees

  • You can register your device once for SU-visitor access through the current school year ending Spring quarter in June. See Can I connect my TV/game console/streaming device to SeattleU Wi-Fi?

Note: It is recommended that streaming content be accessed over a wired connection when possible. Wired connections provide consistent throughput and do not suffer from multiple device congestion as WiFi does.

• Numerous factors can affect your WiFi throughput including, but not limited to, your device type, it’s WiFi capabilities, the number of active WiFi devices near you, and the type of content being accessed by those devices. Devices that support 6GHz WiFi will realize the highest throughput and the least congestion. To see your WiFi throughput to the internet, we recommend you use https://fast.com.

Residents in Bellarmine, Campion, Chardin, Douglas, Murphy Apartments, and Xavier are not allowed to setup or use any device that creates a WiFi network (SSID), whether it is broadcast or not. This is required to prevent impacts to SeattleU WiFi. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Wireless access points

• Wireless routers or firewalls

• Wireless storage devices

• Adhoc wireless networks

Related articles

• ResHall Network Service

• ResHall Device Connectivity