If you are planning to live on-campus, you MUST have an Ethernet card installed in your machine before you can use the campus network. On-campus students may choose to purchase a PC with modem installed or buy an external modem to use to connect to the Internet from their home.
Most students already have an Internet service provider at home.
Depending on how you connect to your ISP, you may or may not wish to have a modem in your system. Modems fail more often than other system components and having an external modem makes replacement much easier. Endicott recommends US Robotics Sportster or Courier models running at least 28.8 kbps speed. If a modem is purchased that supports 56kpbs speeds, it must support the V.90 standard. PC Labs access may be limited at times due to day and evening classes.