IT staff worked with our vendor, Qwest early this morning to repair the problems with our Internet connection. Special thanks to Igor who discovered the nature of the problem.

Our new service provider, Qwest, is experiencing significant problems on their network. This has the effect of severely disrupting our Internet access including all services such as www, mail, library databases, vpn etc. Please be patient as this is worked out.

LANDesk is being ugpraded and we will be upgrading clients after the server is ugpraded. You will not notice a change on your computer.

The IT ground is shaking in anticipation…
This week we move to a new ISP, Qwest, up our bandwidth to 45 mbps syncronous (same speed up and down…), bring up the new mail server (really need a rain dance on this one), and make lots and lots of under-the-hood changes as a result of these two.
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Next Wednesday, November 22nd, we will be switching to Quest for our Internet access. Our pipe speed will improve four-fold from 10mbps to 45mbps (a full T3 line)! We anticipate complete Internet outage for a couple hours and will minimize downtime as much as possible. The primary work will be done in the […]

Our faithful but increasingly gutless little spamfilter has been successfully replaced with a pair of bulldogs that work in tandem. You can access your personal spam quarantine by going to https://spamfilter.westmont.edu and logging in with your complete email address and unique password. If you cannot login, you can click the ‘Create New Password’ […]

Email and Mocha were experiencing connection problems briefly this morning.
All systems are now up and running.

A new System Status page has been made active. If you see problem with this page please contact gsmith@westmont.edu.

Last night, email started piling up, and this morning, starting at about 9:30, the bottleneck was removed and mail is flowing freely again.

Last updated Monday May 1, 11:21am
Mail was down from 5 a.m. to 7:12 a.m. today. Mailman email lists were down until about 10:30. We have had intermittent problems with IMAP connections to the mail server, and we\’re currently working on resolving these.
All other systems are up and running.
Above is the status as most recently posted. […]