The University is spending $4.2 million to add thousands more WiFi hotspots to campus by May 1.

A total of 1,915 wireless devices have been installed so far, GW’s Chief Information Officer Dave Steinour said Tuesday, with about 800 more going into residence halls by May 1.

Upgrades to City Hall, Dakota Hall, the Smith Center and the Mount Vernon Campus were completed this year, and Mitchell and Thurston Hall will see more devices by mid-February, Steinour said.

GW will add more than 3,000 of the new, more powerful devices by August in a multi-year effort to alleviate pressure on an overloaded wireless system that has seen an uptick in mobile devices.

He said at Monday’s Student Association Senate meeting that students who continue to have trouble connecting in their halls after the new technology is installed should contact the IT Support Center.

“We only know what we know. And if no one is telling us, we have no way of knowing if its problematic” he told SA senators.