THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! (from magicaltablet.com. Seriously?)

This week, OIT warned the campus community about how iPads were disrupting the campus network. According to OIT, the problem slowly spread through campus…not unlike some mysterious disease:

Apple iPads began appearing on Princeton University’s campus soon after they become available April 3 2010. On April 4, we observed our first DHCP client malfunction from an iPad. Over the next few days, more iPads malfunctioned in the same way…

Within a few days, we had seen enough incidents from the iPads already on campus to conclude that there was a problem. Roughly half the iPads had malfunctioned in the same way; the symptoms all matched the description above.

(For a more detailed explanation about why the iPads are malfunctioning, check out this blog’s excellent explanation or the OIT’s site on the problem.)

As of today, 22 of the 41 iPads on the campus network have shown this problem (Only 41?). Seven of them have been blocked! Anyway, chill out, Princeton — Apple’s coming out with a 3G iPad later this month.