The internet services were introduced at the University of Vlora in 2001, but IT staff was not included in the budget so the very small number of computers at the university was often virus stricken or non-functional. In February 2008 a special focus of the educational reforms taken by the president of the University was a total renewal of the University access to the internet and the creation of an IT office.

During 2009 more installations have been taking place. A complete local area network (LAN) installation was accomplished linking more than 100 computers and a proportional number of peripherals like all-in-one printers, photocopiers and scanners. LAN access was provided to all college buildings for almost every department office. More computers and peripherals were installed. The internet service which was initially introduced to the University in 2001 had one dial up line which was used to connect the lab computers and some of the offices to the internet. The speed of the dial up line was not more than 50 Kbps and because of the huge amount of traffic and poor computer management and protection, problems occurred very frequently.

In 2008 the University administration agreed to financially support a bigger bandwidth, and 256 Kbps internet line was installed. Almost at the same time with the installation of the bigger bandwidth, wireless connectivity within the University buildings was introduced to the existing network, providing a versatile connectivity solution for those who use a laptop computer.

E. Prifti

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