While few schools are explicitly linking these outages with today's release of iOS 7, many
The Post, Ohio University's student newspaper, reports that "In a university-wide email, students were asked to wait to download iOS 7, Apple's new software upgrade, to potentially prevent further delays."
"On the odd chance that this is related to the iOS 7 update release, please consider waiting to download your copy until the current issues are resolved," said an OU spokesperson.
Here are a few schools that have likely had their wifi crash due to iOS 7 downloads:
New York University
It looks like iOS 7's release managed to crash NYU wifi @jwherrman: pic.twitter.com/cqwuZWYsLz
- Zak Kukoff (@zck) September 18, 2013
Ohio University
@ohiou wants you to know that downloading iOS 7 may be why the
- Will Drabold (@WillDrabold) September 18, 2013Internet is down across campus. More: http://t.co/tfU5LJ9cBF. #iPhone
Western Connecticut State University
I bet the WestConn internet server is down because everyone is trying to download iOS 7 #westconnproblems
- Katerina Reyes (@twiggy_601) September 18, 2013