Welcome to the Eastgate Website. Eastgate is a family housing apartment complex and community for students attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and their spouses or partners and children. We're located on the east edge of the MIT campus.

This purpose of this website is to provide information for current residents about the building, upcoming events & activities, and the resources of Eastgate and the MIT community.

If you are a prospective Eastgate resident, information and answers to common questions are available here.

Hello eastgaters! the Eastgate Officer selection is upon us! Please visit the application and fill it out!

Please take a few minutes to answer this short questionnaire about safety at Eastgate. The survey will be available until 11:59pm on Saturday, February 11th, at http://tinyurl.com/EastgateSafety.

Following resident feedback from our Town Hall Meetings and the Annual Eastgate Survey, we will be shutting down the Eastgate Forum, which has seen relatively low activity, and instead encourage active Eastgate-related discussion over the eastgate maillist. As a reminder, Eastgate has three main mail lists as follows:

• Eastgate [recommended sign-up for residents] - Eastgate [at] mit is a mailing list that can be emailed to by any of its members. This list is used informally for Eastgate and community discussion, buying/selling furniture and baby items and other topics of general interest in Eastgate. You can sign up here.
• Eastgateinfo [required sign-up for residents] - Important building and maintenance updates are sent to eastgateinfo (water shut-downs, etc.) so every resident of Eastgate should be on this mailing list.
• Eastgate-events [recommended sign-up for residents] All events organized through the eastgate house government will be announced through eastgate-events. In addition, a weekly summary of other events around campus will be sent to this email list every Thursday.

Wireless/Wired internet connection

Update to Eastgate wireless infrastructure

As you know, we have been in contact with the folks at IS&T and RCC regarding the wireless issues. Thank you to all of you who have been helping this issue by sending feedback to RCC.

Their latest plan involves a physical move of the wireless infrastructure. The people we have been in contact with have set up a page with updated information on the Eastgate Wireless issue and with a link for questions and feedback specifically for Eastgate. This page talks about the various problems, the solutions attempted, and the current plans. Please visit this page, read the information, and provide any questions you have as soon as you can.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PSKJMW8


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During the recent town hall meeting, we found that many residents are having trouble with the wireless or wired connections. While we have contacted RCC with this information, they have repeatedly told us, in the past, that it is best if any resident that has problems send a RCC
help request.

Also, using your own routers is against Eastgate and MITNet policy (http://bit.ly/lUmwdP, http://bit.ly/ioUgj0), and the reason, we are told, is that using your own routers will interfere with the other
MITNet connections. If you see other networks on your floors that are not MIT-related (MIT, MIT N, MIT SECURE, etc), RCC requests your help in identifying them, as this may help the MITNet connections.

Information on submitting a help request or on router detection is now up at: http://eastgate.mit.edu/wirelessinfo.php . Please submit requests if you are having internet connection problems.

Thank you,
- your ECC

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