The Columbus School community, students, teachers and administrators, depend everyday on our WiFi system to access emails, grades, and classroom activities which keep the school running smoothly.

The WiFi network, run by the Technology Department, is responsible for maintaining, the system which has enough capacity to serve the almost 2000 school users, by providing a signal all over campus.

“The school´s WIFI is not our own,” Sandra Hernandez said.

The TCS WiFi network and internet connection is very complex and requires a lot of hardware, most of which, such as the energy power plants and UPS boxes, are serviced and maintained by outside companies that work hand in hand with the school. 

“The school does not buy the equipment we use, the school pays for a service so people can connect to the internet and make it work,”  Sandra Hernandez said.

The school has several UPS units which provide energy to the data center and ensure the WiFi system works properly both inside the building and outside on the school grounds.

“The idea is that if one day we have a problem inside the school, it doesn’t affect anything outside the school,” Hernandez said.

All equipment is located in 40 tech rooms all around campus, providing easy access. There is one main technology room, where routers, UPS and digital switches, can be managed conveniently.  

“We have two AP units for every two classrooms in the whole school.” Hernandez said.

The Columbus School is situated in a location where the climate interferes with the WiFi signals. For this reason, there are times when the signal strength is not always optimal. Harsh weather, especially thunder and lightning, can have a negative impact on the WiFi signals on campus.

According to Hernandez, the weather makes it difficult to maintain signal strength. “We are a point now where it rains a lot with lightning and thunderstorms.”

The school has extended the capacity of bandwidth on campus that extends to the 100 megabytes, enough to support over 3000 devices concurrently.

“The free wall lets the three bandwidth the schools has to work properly and efficiently to all 250 devices from each class,“ Sandra Hernandez, said.

The main goal of the school is to be able to get together with the students and discuss the problems they have concerning the WiFi network ,and eventually get it fixed with the help of all of the Tech staff.

“We want to do great things for the students, and if you are involved in it, it’s perfect!” Hernandez said.