wireless on campus

[Erin]

Hi,
I just registered my MAC address & used my UA NetID to register for UA wireless. Whenever I try to connect to the unsecured wireless networks in my building, it says "limited or no connectivity". There are 4 bars, and also, a friend of mine was able to get a pretty fast connection on the same networks with her laptops.

Does this mean that I did something wrong when I tried to register my MAC address? I put a colon between each pair of characters/digits when I entered it, because that's what I saw on the ccit website (though my computer--running XP / DOS uses hyphens between the pairs). Does that matter?

Since it already said that I successfully registered for UA wireless after I put in my NetID, is there something more I need to do? (Note: I put in my net id using a different computer, since I seem to not be close enough to UA public network here in the speech building. Or for some reason it's not on the list of networks.)

I use wireless all the time at home. My computer is only a couple of years old, an HP & it runs XP.

Please let me know if there's something more I need to do to use UA wireless.

Thanks a million-
Erin

[nlopez]

Which unsecured wireless networks are you trying to connect to? Registering your NetID only helps with UAWiFi.
Have you registered both your MAC addresses? Your laptop should have two, one for the build-in ethernet, and one for the wireless. The colon form is the right form, Windows just likes to be wierd.

Oh, and what building is this in?

[stoecker]

There is no longer any UA Wireless, there is only UAWiFi and UAPublic, You just have to register you netid for UAWiFi at https://netid.ccit.arizona.edu/wireless_reg.php . You also have to set up UAWiFi special, see the wireless set-up PDF at the bottom of this page http://www.oscr.arizona.edu/computer_help/wireless . If you are running VISTA you cannot use UAWiFi and will only be able to use UAPublic.

One last note is the wireless networks are having a lot of problems today with not letting people connect or dropping them after they connect.

If you need more help feel free to come by the OSCR Underground ILC 136 to get help setting up UAWiFi

[Erin]

The Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences building has 3 unsecured wireless networks: SpeechLanguageHearingSciences5, SpeechLanguageHearingSciences4, and SLHS_Wireless3, so those are the 3 I've tried with no luck.

What is UAWiFi? Do I have to be near a certain place on campus to use it?

Yes, I have registered both my physical address of my wireless card & of my ethernet adapter.

I'd appreciate any other advice you can give me.
thanks,
Erin

[stoecker]

When you are looking for networks if UAWiFi shows up then that means it is available for use. There is a map http://mstplan.web.arizona.edu/PDFS/Campus.pdf that shows where you can get it.

As far as SpeechLanguageHearingSciences5, SpeechLanguageHearingSciences4, and SLHS_Wireless3 those are run by Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences and I am not sure if those are open to everyone, you would have to talk to someone down there if you are supposed to be able to connect to it.

[Erin]

Maybe I just needed to wait longer for it to work. Now I can connect to our departmental networks with no trouble.

Thanks very much!
Erin

[stoecker]

Sometimes the registration processes can take a while to grow through, glad you got it working!