[OSX-Users] Re: eduroam

Les A Carr lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jul 6 13:34:01 BST 2011


I have to say that I was astonished to walk into a couple of european
universities (Koblenz, Geneva) in the last month and find that my laptop
was automatically on the network thanks to eduroam!
--
Les


On 06/07/2011 13:31, "Tim Chown" <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>I would recommend using your 'central' credentials, certainly when
>roaming elsewhere.
>
>The ECS and University eduroam deployments are being refreshed/epxanded
>this summer.
>
>It's somewhat embarrassing that we're one of the 'inventors' of eduroam,
>and yet we don't have a service because iSolutions have never prioritised
>widescale wireless coverage.
>
>Tim
>
>On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:56, Marcus Cobden wrote:
>
>> Both of these will work:
>> 
>> * your ECS username at ecs.soton... and your ECS wireless password
>> or
>> * your Soton username at soton.ac... and your iSolutions password.
>> 
>> ECS's servers have been flakey lately, but I understand there is
>>currently work going on to improve the stability of this authentication.
>> 
>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:52, mc schraefel wrote:
>> 
>>> Really? It's what I'm using right now. Maybe it's a fluke
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPod
>>> 
>>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:42, Vladimiro Sassone <vs at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:27, mc schraefel wrote:
>>>>> Should just be your iss login and password
>>>> 
>>>> not necessarily, for me it's not so...
>> 
>> 
>
>




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