{"id":911,"date":"2012-09-18T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T06:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2012\/09\/18\/staying-connected-with-eduroam"},"modified":"2015-08-14T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:20:14","slug":"staying-connected-with-eduroam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/staying-connected-with-eduroam\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying connected with Eduroam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 13pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">For those of you who travel as often as we do to\r\nconferences or visit research \/ higher education institutions will find it\r\nrather annoying that on arrival your laptop or wireless smart device does not\r\nautomatically connect to the network. At some institutions you would need to\r\napproach the IT helpdesk to have them assign you with a wireless username and\r\npassword or add your wireless device MAC address to their ACL\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 13pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Eduroam is the secure, world-wide roaming access\r\nservice developed for the international research and education community. This\r\nmeans that if you are connected to a \u201c Eduroam \u201c named and enabled SSID\r\nanywhere in the world you will gain access to the internet. UCT has implemented\r\nEduroam so academics and students will benefit from Eduroam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xmnc2\"><span style=\"color: #0000e9;\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/xmnc2<\/span><\/a> to learn more about\r\nEduroam connectivity at the University of Cape Town.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    For those of you who travel as often as we do to<br \/>\nconferences or visit research \/ higher education institutions will find it<br \/>\nrather annoying that on arrival your laptop or wireless smart device does not<br \/>\nautomatically connect to the network. 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