Wireless Access

UNI allows students, faculty, and staff to use their personally owned computers to access the wireless network on campus using the 802.1x protocol with WPA encryption. This requires that users register the hardware address of their wireless network cards with the ITS Consulting Center in the ITTC. Once that has been done, users can access any of the wireless access points on campus, including the eleven in the library, and use their Active Directory user accounts to log into the network. Maps show the locations of the wireless access points (WAP).

• Personally owned laptops that have been registered with ITS should select the SSID "WiFi-UNI."
• Faculty or staff who have registered university owned computers should select the SSID "UNI-Wireless."
• Sponsored university guests should select the SSID "Guest-Portal" and log in with the username and password assigned for their visit.

All students are automatically given Active Directory accounts by ITS and faculty/staff are given accounts by people in their respective technology departments. One recent change made by ITS to this procedure is that on August 1st of each year the hardware addresses of personally owned computers will be removed so that the tables don't fill up with outdated addresses. This means that wireless network cards need to be re-registered each year.

Hardwired Access

In addition to wireless access, the Library is now making network access available through approximately 180 hardwired network jacks located in the public areas of the Library. This includes all of the Group Study Rooms. This allows the Library to provide network access in remote areas of the Library with better connectivity than the wireless network coverage allows. These hardwired network connections use the same authentication scheme that is used by the wireless network. The only thing users need to do to use the hardwired network jacks is to have the hardware address of their non-wireless network card registered with ITS as they do now with their wireless network card. The laptop computers that the Library has available for checkout are configured to use both wireless and hardwired network access.

Maps show the locations of the network jacks. The public network jacks are numbered so that, if a patron has difficulty connecting to the network, the jack number can be reported to the library. The library will then determine if the jack is defective or if the problem lies elsewhere. A network connection will be made available at one of the service desks so that patrons can attempt to emulate their network problems where someone can provide assistance in troubleshooting.