Dorm Life: Bad internet connection in Resident Hall

I have recently moved into the dorms this semester and so far it is going well. I’m making good friends and keeping myself out of trouble which is a pretty helpful thing when it comes to succeeding in college. The one thing that isn’t helping me is the dorms’ poor Internet connection.
This is a huge problem considering half of my homework, quizzes, and discussions need to be posted online and are usually time sensitive.
The first thing I was told to do in order to even get internet was to go buy an Ethernet cable and, of course, the cable that was long enough to reach my outlet was $26. Even with this cord I get kicked off the Internet for minutes to hours at a time and that doesn’t really go well when I’m working on a single attempt quiz.
My concern is that many students are paying ridiculous prices to live in a place that is in my opinion a complete joke. You can’t get your homework done and no one is doing anything to fix it.
Even after numerous complaints, the operators of the NIC dorm life have not come through for students by finding an efficient way to solve this problem. They only expect dorm life to spend more money on a worthless cable that still doesn’t work.
Now I know that it is easy to just walk over to the Student Union Building (SUB) and log onto the NIC public wireless connection, but that isn’t the point. Even if I did take the time to walk to the SUB to do homework, it’s always too loud in there to concentrate and take tests anyways.
The point is that many students like me pay thousands of dollars to live in dorms that can’t even keep up with the modern basic needs of a college student. It is a complete rip off of student money.
Many students do believe they are being ripped off and I am one of them. You would think that after all the money we put into living in the dorms that some of that cash would go toward improving the Internet connection.
To solve the issue I think the students that live in the dorm need to demand that their hard earned money needs to be put towards things like better wireless Internet. It’s more important than the events we have in the dorms which is where I assume a lot of our money goes to. It’s more important to get school work in on time.
Now hopefully more people are able to stand up for what they truly need to pass their classes and this issue can be resolved by next semester. If not, I can see the dorms losing a lot of business.
It won’t affect me anymore seeing they will not have any of my business next semester. I think I’ll get along fine with a good router and Internet connection in my apartment this fall.