Wireless Networking

The eduroam and OWL University wireless networks are avaliable in the Founder's seminar rooms, the ground floor of the Hilda Besse building, the Gulbenkian Room and RESC Library Reading Room. There is also limited coverage in 25 / 26 Winchester Road. The eduroam network is for the use of members of the University of Oxford, and other participating Universities. The OWL network is primarily for conference guests and other visitors.

College members will need to register for a 'remote access' account (https://register.oucs.ox.ac.uk/) to use wireless (this is different from your College account or SSO account). Conference guests and other visitors should ask at the Lodge for a visitor account.

How to connect - Eduroam

The eduroam wireless is the prefered wireless network for University of Oxford members and for visitors from institutions which participate in eduroam.  The stringent security measures make the initial configuration a little difficult. To configure your laptop to use eduroam, there are instructions available from OUCS. There are also some unofficial tools to automate the process:

Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit): eduroam for Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit) (thanks to The Ashmolean)

Vista and Windows 7 (64-bit): eduroam for Vista and Windows 7 (64-bit) (thanks to The Ashmolean)

XP SP3 (native supplicant): http://users.ox.ac.uk/~guym/

How to connect - OWL

The OWL network is unencrypted, anyone may join. Conference guests and visitors will be prompted for a visitor username and password when they first open a web browser (ask at the Lodge for a visitor account). University members may bypass the visitor log in by starting the Cisco VPN client (see 'Using VPN for wireless(OWL) and remote access').