George Fox University | Offices and Services | Institutional Technology | Campus Network

Technology is an important tool that George Fox University provides for its students. In addition to the CAC program, George Fox provides each student access to its computer network, including the Internet and Bruinmail. The residence halls, suites, apartments, and four of the student houses (Beals, Chapman, McGrew, and Weesner) have at least one 100-megabit Ethernet port connecting each resident to the local area network (LAN). There are also numerous public access Ethernet ports located in the Murdock Learning Resource Center (MLRC, library), the Bruin Den, the Edward Stevens Center, and the Edwards-Holman Science Center.

Network connections are provided in every office and residence room on our campuses. There are also network connections (wired and/or wireless) in most of our classrooms and at public access points in many of our buildings. Behind these connections is a 100 megabit (or faster) ethernet network and, on the Newberg campus, an all-fiber network between our buildings.

The Newberg and Portland campuses are serviced through a 50 MBit Internet connection supplemented and backed up with T1s, DSL and Cable connection. The Portland Center is connected to the Newberg campus with a dedicated 75 MBit connections. This Internet connection is filtered (to block pornography) and "shaped" (to give higher priority to e-mail and web, for example).

The Boise and Salem campuses contract for their Internet connections. The information offered below does not usually apply to these campuses.