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

[Tim Chown]

What bunkum.    Indeed you don't 'register' to use it, you use your
regular iSolutions credentials and it Just Works.   Except when it
doesn't of course...

I have a GDP for 2009/10 working with JANET to produce visualisations
of eduroam access/roaming patterns based on anonymised usage logs.

Tim

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:33:26PM +0100, 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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Tim