[OSX-Users] Re: eduroam

[Les A Carr]

I think a weak signal (with frequent dropouts) tends to botch the rather
complex negotiation of credentials.
--
les

On 06/07/2011 13:37, "Jonathon Hare" <jsh2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>I'm currently using it in Hannover with my ECS credentials. Was rather
>flaky at times yesterday though...
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>Jon
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>On 6 Jul 2011, at 14:34, Les A Carr wrote:
>
>> 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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