A conference guest checking into a dorm room for a week-long summer camp needs a network that works in five minutes with no CU Boulder account at all. A visiting researcher from a partner university needs one that already recognizes the login from their home institution. A CU Boulder student needs a network built to …

Two speed tests in the same CU building, taken ten minutes apart, told the whole story: 35 Mbps down at the edge of a research wing, then 87 Mbps down in the lunch room directly beneath an access point — same network, same login, identical 5–6 ms ping. CU Boulder's guest WiFi is faster and more usable than the …