At the beginning of the school year there were troubles with the wireless network, mainly at South Campus. Although there are always small speed bumps with technology at Lyons Township, there are reasons why the internet has been especially slow. The systems administrators were able to diagnose what was going on, and that, to many students was what caused the ‘slow internet.’

“More traffic was added to the resources when we add district devices,” Director of Technology Ed Tennant said. “We have laptops and the computer carts, 800+ student devices and district devices.”

Tennant and the other Tech Coaches contacted the La Grange city officials, and the same problems seemed to be occurring on locations connected to the same link as LT, like Saint John of the Cross school. To solve this, the village of Western Springs had put in some upgrades and they tripled the band for the link. It is not that it will not connect, it is just that for now, it may take a little longer. This year especially there was more traffic, but there are always little things. Callie Pogge, a Tech Coach at LT also gave her opinion on this matter.

“While aware of the issues some staff are experiencing, the TEC Coaches continue to work to maximize available district resources to enhance instruction and support the staff,” Pogge said.

Students cannot do much to prevent these events, but they can wait for more than five seconds to say that it is broken.

“Be patient and wait for a few seconds,” Tennant said. “Clicking a bunch of times doesn’t solve anything.”

In regards to whether or not this had to do with any of the international hacking problems, the answer is no, Tennant said. LT considered it, but this issue was not caused by international hacking problems. None of these were affiliated with LT.