Eduroam Wi-Fi

What is Eduroam?

Eduroam (EDUcation ROAMing) is an international project which provides the access to the Internet via a wireless network on the premises of any scientific institution participating in the project. The service is dedicated primarily to students and employees of universities and research units.

Who can use the Eduroam network?

  • students and doctoral students of the University of Rzeszów who have a student/doctoral Electronic ID Card
  • employees of the University of Rzeszów with an employee Electronic ID Card
  • users from other units participating in the EDUROAM project

How to use the Eduroam network?

Requirements for using the Eduroam service at the University of Rzeszów are as follows:

  1. Possessing an active account
  2. Reading and accepting the regulations of USK UR on the website konto.ur.edu.pl or at information kiosks (Infoboxes) located in the buildings,
  3. Configuring the wireless network connection profile according to the instructions in the Configuration tab.

Users of other institutions participating in the Eduroam project should use the settings of the parent unit. Logging in to the Eduroam network is done by using the account of the parent unit.

Technical requirements

To use the Eduroam network, you need a computer or other device with a wireless network card supporting one of the standards: 802.11b, 802.11g or 802.11n and an operating system with an 802.1x supplicant supporting WPA authentication and TKIP or AES encryption (e.g. Windows 7).

eduroam.org

Configuration instructions

A necessary requirement of using the Eduroam service at the University of Rzeszów is to have an active account and accept the network regulations at konto.ur.edu.pl. After logging in, you must read and accept the regulations of USK UR

Basic information:

  • Wireless network name SSID: eduroam
  • Security type: WPA enterprise or WPA2 enterprise
  • Encryption: TKIP (WPA) or AES-CCMP (WPA2)
  • Authentication method: EAP-PEAP
  • Authentication (phase 2): EAP-MSCHAPv2
  • Username: login@stud.ur.edu.pl
  • Password: in accordance with Virtual University account
  • Recommended encryption: WPA2 (AES)