Customers with a valid San Diego County Library card may use the public internet stations as long as the Internet Policy is followed. Children under the age of 18 must have an Internet Parental Consent Form on file that has been read and signed by the parent or legal guardian and the child. An SDCL internet sticker will then be placed on the child's card. All SDCL branches are also equipped with wireless internet.
Computers & Internet Services FAQs
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General Questions
Your laptop must be enabled for wireless use. To access the network, your laptop or PDA must have a wireless network interface card (NIC) installed. These cards are available for purchase from several manufacturers at many computer stores. Your laptop computer or PDA equipped with a wireless network card, must support either the 802.11a/b/g/n standard wireless protocol. The library wireless system will not operate with Bluetooth enabled devices. Bluetooth is designed for low power, short distance peripheral devices that typically communicate with computers and telephones.
- Make sure your laptop has a wireless network interface card.
- Using your mouse pad, right click on the wireless icon at the bottom-right of your desktop toolbar.
- Select “View Available Wireless Networks”
- Double left click on the “SD_CO_LIBRARY” network entry. Your computer will automatically connect to the network. Note: You may see other networks listed. Only the “SD_CO_LIBRARY” network is provided and administered by the San Diego County Library.
- Launch your Internet browser.
- Agree to the County Library's Internet Use Terms.
You are responsible for configuring you own equipment. All computers are different, and the library is unable to provide assistance in configuring your computer. The documentation that came with your computer or wireless card may have helpful information. The manufacturer of your computer or wireless card may offer support services to help you.
The library wireless network’s SSID is: SD_CO_LIBRARY. It is recommended that customers set their wireless device to automatically detect and connect to the SD_CO_LIBRARY wireless network. To associate to the wireless access point, go to your wireless settings on your device and connect to SD_CO_LIBRARY.
Users of the library wireless network are encouraged to install one of the many commercially available anti-virus programs on their own laptop. Anti-virus support is not provided by the County Of San Diego Library wireless network.
Only web browsing is supported on the library network. Not all sites, nor all servers, will be available through the library's wireless service. If the site or service you are trying to access requires a network port number that is not on the County’s approved list, it may not work. Services other than http/https such as telnet, FTP, secure shell, outgoing SMTP mail, etc., are not supported. It is recommended that enterprise mail be accessed via webmail to avoid port blocking. Some sites and services may also be filtered by the County’s content filtering solution, which may prevent access.
Like the public-use computers provided within the library, content on the SDCL wireless network is filtered by the County's URL filtering solution. Please refer to the San Diego County Library Internet Policy for further information.
Information sent to and from your computer is unencrypted and not protected while using the library wireless network. Use of the County of San Diego’s wireless network is at your own discretion. Care should be taken when accessing sites that may require passwords and user IDs. Some web pages may provide their own encryption. By using this connection, customers acknowledge that security errors and hacking are an inherent risk associated with any public wireless service, and agree they knowingly assume such risk.
The library currently does not offer printing while using the wireless network. We suggest that you save any pages to disk that you may wish to print later, or you can email the information to yourself. Printing is available on the public use computers provided within the library.
Customers can download large files or attachments. However, please note that the wireless network bandwidth is shared by all other users of the library network, which may affect the overall download speeds. Audio and video streaming and downloading large files will affect the response times and download speeds for all customers.