The central PC laboratories and multimedia rooms can be booked by teachers for instructional purposes. These laboratories provide network points for teachers to connect their PCs or notebook computers to the network and overhead projection facilities are available. Booking should be made two weeks in advance through the Centre's General Office. Our campus network had a major upgrade as part of the Digital University Initiative last year. ATM WAN links from the University's main campus are set up to provide high-speed network access to the remote campuses in the Queen Mary Hospital area and in the the Prince Philip Dental Hospital compound.
Students residing in halls also have direct access to the campus network from their own bedrooms.
All the nine student residential halls provide one network access point for each student through the HKU Hallnet and each room is provided with one telephone. To access either the ACEnet or the Hallnet services, staff and students are reminded that they must register their network cards with the Computer Centre on the Staff or Student Intranet. Furthermore, all staff and students can connect to the HKU campus network from their homes using our dial-up service. There are now over 856 lines, mostly supporting 56Kbps V.90 modems, which provides 24-hour access to our network from home. It is set up and attended by our staff to assist our users in computer and network problems during office hours.