Wi-Fi Concerns Committee

The WI-Fi Concerns Committee was an ad-hoc committee established by Student Association President Joseph Rexford during the 2014-15 academic year.

The committee was charged with examining SVSU's Wi-Fi connectivity problem due to an increase in students streaming videos and other HD content from their computers and mobile devices.

SVSU president Donald Bachand publicly addressed a problems with the university's network system to a crowd of Bay County businessmen and women in September of 2014.

"We upgraded our whole network system this summer based on a consultant's recommendation, how much bandwidth we needed based on the student population. These students blew that away on opening day. The system crashed," Bachand said to, what The Saginaw News called, a laughing crowd.

As a result of the committee's work, SVSU approved a $770,000 upgrade to the campus' Wi-Fi network, installing new access points, increasing coverage, and doubling the amount of available bandwidth. The upgrade increased network coverage to accommodate an average of five wireless devices per residential student.

The committee recommended that the association pass a resolution in support of the upgrade, which passed unanimously.