[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone 3.0 ...

Leslie Carr lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 19 07:23:45 BST 2009


Although my experience with eduroam on other campuses is that it is  
almost impossible to log in to it, either using my soton.ac.uk or  
ecs.soton.ac.uk passwords.
I have no idea how to find out if it is a problem at our end.
--
Les

On 18 Jun 2009, at 20:33, Hugh Glaser wrote:

> When I spoke to iSolutions about eduroam, they said there was not  
> much demand for it, as noone had registered, so it wasn't given a  
> supported status...
> Although they know you don't have to register...
> They seemed to think I was one of only two or three they knew about.
> So I suggested that they might like to find out how many people were  
> actually using it.
>
> On 18/06/2009 12:28, "Tim Chown" <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:07:10PM +0100, JD Marsters wrote:
>> Tim Chown wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:38:50AM +0100, Chris Andrews wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's a new feature in the Wi-Fi prefs that I haven't tried yet  
>>>> but
>>>> should be great for iPod touch users in the University: auto- 
>>>> login to
>>>> hotspots. I'll give it a go next time I'm on campus...
>>>>
>>> This is there already if you use eduroam and 802.1x.
>>>
>> I find campus eduroam really very patchy indeed, which is a shame:  
>> some
>> other institutions I've been to have really good coverage. I think  
>> I'm
>> right in saying this is being addressed, though?
>
> Yes, it is.   And if you have such experiences report them to  
> serviceline :)
>
> Though one person in iSolutions seems violently opposed to 802.1x due
> to it not (yet) being available to sufficent standard by default in  
> all
> OSes, which I see as a little short-sighted.
>
> --
> Tim
>
>
>
>



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