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Hub Knoxville, off-ccampus housing on the strip. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.<\/p>\n
Ericksen Gomez-Villeda \/ The Daily Beacon<\/p>\n
After the Arkansas football game, many students on the Strip reported the loss of WiFi in their apartments. Service was wiped out, making internet usage unreliable.<\/p>\n
Many students living in the apartments affected could not watch television, use applications on their phones and, their biggest concern: the effects it had on completing schoolwork.<\/p>\n
Lincoln O\u2019Brien is a sophomore majoring in kinesiology; he lives in the Standard, one of the apartment complexes on the Strip.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince all of my schoolwork is online, it didn\u2019t allow me to do anything, and my hotspot wasn\u2019t strong enough to upload and download documents I needed to work with,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cI had a chem exam (the other night) and it impeded my ability to study within my own room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nowadays, most assignments and exams that professors assign their students are fully online instead of being done on paper. So, in the case of a WiFi outage such as this one, students are struggling to complete their assignments in their own homes.<\/p>\n
Jon Campbell Holloway, a sophomore kinesiology major, also lives in the Standard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe majority of the homework and classwork that we have to do involves using Canvas or online materials, so not being able to access those in our apartment was extremely frustrating,\u201d Holloway said.<\/p>\n
Another apartment complex on the Strip that experienced the outage is the Hub. Just finishing construction this past summer, students moving in were very excited for the brand new appliances, yet there have been issues so far.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Mari Cate Macdonald is a political science major who lives in the Hub.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems the WiFi at the Hub is very unreliable, this isn\u2019t the first time it\u2019s gone out before,\u201d Macdonald said. \u201cAlso, it\u2019s a data dead-spot, so when there\u2019s no WiFi we can\u2019t even use our devices in some of the rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Standard, off-campus apartments on S. 17th Street. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.<\/p>\n
Ericksen Gomez-Villeda \/ The Daily Beacon<\/p>\n
Because of the issues with the WiFi, many students have been taken out of their daily routines and schedules that they have built over the first half of this semester.<\/p>\n
Karla Pena is a senior human development and family science major who also lives in the Hub and has grown accustomed to her routine over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s completely thrown off my schedule and has been really stressful and exhausting,\u201d Pena said. \u201cI\u2019ve had to change where and when I study, leave the apartment to find reliable internet, and do assignments at the last minute using my phone\u2019s hotspot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many students either have jobs, rigorous class schedules or organizations that they are a part of that makes it difficult to find chunks of time to get their work done. Sometimes going to the library or another study spot is not the choice students want to have to make after a long day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have had to go to public spaces to do my work, and for online classes, it\u2019s been more difficult,\u201d Macdonald said. \u201cIt\u2019s doable but definitely annoying, because I like to do my schoolwork at my own desk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both the Hub and the Standard have been sending emails out to their residents with various updates about the outage. They linked the issues to a large AT&T network failure, but had no further information on the matter.<\/p>\n
In one of their later emails sent out to residents, the Hub stated that \u201cAT&T is still unable to provide us with an ETA for when they will resolve the service outage\u201d and that they \u201capologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey gave very little explanation and haven\u2019t updated us regularly,\u201d Pena said. \u201cI feel like they haven\u2019t taken residents\u2019 concerns seriously, especially since it\u2019s affecting our education and daily responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Similarly, according to residents at the Standard, they received barely any information on the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got two emails total; one saying the WiFi was out and the other saying it was back,\u201d O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n
After roughly two to three days without service in their homes, students who faced the outage now have WiFi again. Whether these issues are fully resolved or will continue to pop up is unknown, but in a digital environment like this, the effects of an outage are plentiful.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like for all the money that we pay every month to live here, this should\u2019ve been a bigger priority and it should\u2019ve been resolved quicker than it did,\u201d Holloway said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hub Knoxville, off-ccampus housing on the strip. Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Ericksen Gomez-Villeda \/ The Daily Beacon After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[89299,1638,655,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-207316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-city_news","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}