{"id":13120,"date":"2025-08-11T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:42:16","slug":"but-first-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/but-first-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"But first, wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the single most important things every student needs to thrive in college is a strong wifi connection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you\u2019re trying to complete homework assignments or stream your favorite movies and tv shows, you\u2019ll need internet and cable access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/08\/hammock-garden.jpg\" alt=\"Student working on homework in the hammock garden.\" class=\"wp-image-13123\" style=\"width:800px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/08\/hammock-garden.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/08\/hammock-garden-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-tarleton-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-31e641f7a739d80d7feb4824eafdc6dc\"><strong><em>Getting Internet Access<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>First, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myresnet.com\/\">Apogee Resnet <\/a>and search \u201cTarleton State University\u201d in the pop-up box. After selecting your residence hall and entering your room number, you will be prompted to create an account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It\u2019s important to remember your account information and security question for easy logins. You\u2019ll have to reconnect your devices to the wifi each year!&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To connect your devices, you\u2019ll need to enter the MAC address which can be found in either your device\u2019s setting or network information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After connecting all of your devices (phones, tvs, gaming systems, laptops, etc.) restart them! Once your devices have restarted, you should be able to connect to your residence hall\u2019s wifi network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For additional assistance with connecting to the wifi, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/housing\/technology\/\">https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/housing\/technology\/<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the single most important things every student needs to thrive in college is a strong wifi connection.&nbsp; Whether you\u2019re trying to complete homework assignments or stream your favorite &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":13121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":162,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-on-campus"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/08\/But-first-wifi.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Blake Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/author\/bsmith1\/"},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Blake Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/author\/bsmith1\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/08\/But-first-wifi.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/category\/living-on-campus\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Living on Campus<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Living on Campus<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 months ago","modified":"Updated 9 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 11, 2025","modified":"Updated on August 6, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 11, 2025 8:15 am","modified":"Updated on August 6, 2025 11:42 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13124,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions\/13124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/becomeatexan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}