On Monday 18 June 2007 17:02:43 Simon Jude wrote:
Rob Grant wrote:
Visitors to UEA need to get their network cards registered in order to access our network. As a more convenient alternative, the technical support manager here suggested that our school buy two or three usb wireless cards which can be pre-registered and loaned to visitors.
Hi Rob, I'm not sure that you are aware of this, but the first time you connect to the UEA wifi network it asks you to register. I did this the other day with my laptop running ubuntu and it was registered and working straight away (although the registration page says it can take 20mins). I'm not sure how this works for 'guests' at UEA but there used to be a similar system for visitors wanting to use the UEA ethernet network connections. Alternatively, parts of UEA are covered by the Norwich-wide wifi which is free to use, and there are also numerous departmental wifi networks too that are accessible.
You can only register a network device's MAC address if you have a valid UEA network user account. However, a single user account can register more than one device. So Rob, if you register some wireless cards, you (or whoever registers them) would be responsible for whatever use is made of them.
Also note that the University hosts a second wireless network provide by BT OpenZone which visitors can pay a fee to use.
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/print/home/services/units/is/services/itservices/netwo...
(apologies for UEA's ridiculous CMS-generated-ultra-long-just-to-annoy-pretty-much-everybody URLs).
And Simon, did you manage to use netreg.uea.ac.uk with a non-MSIE browser? I'm very impressed ;-)
Cheers, Richard