Using Eduroam at UIC

• What is eduroam?
• If you are visiting UIC from another Eduroam Institution:
• Settings for the eduroam Network at UIC:
• Eduroam Configuration for Members of the UIC Community:

Eduroam means education roaming. It is a wireless network sharing program that was developed by and for educational institutions in Europe to allow the members of their communities to securely connect to the wireless Internet networks at other eduroam institutions, without having to have a wireless access account for that other institution. Eduroam has flourished in Europe and is available at increasing numbers of institutions in the US, Canada, and Asia-Pacific. eduroam.org has an interactive map of eduroam institutions on their home page. Here at home, both the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and at Springfield are in eduroam.

Because UIC is now participating in eduroam, members of the UIC community can use their UIC credentials to securely connect to the eduroam wireless networks at other eduroam institutions. And people from other eduroam institutions visiting UIC can use their home credentials to connect to the eduroam wireless network here at UIC.

Before you use eduroam at another institution, you should connect to eduroam at your home institution. That is all the configuration that you should need to connect to eduroam networks at UIC, around the US, or the world. Happy visiting!

You will use your user name and password from your home institution to connect to eduroam regardless of where you are.

The best way to ensure that you can connect to Eduroam at a different institution is to connect to it at your home institution first. That will set up your server authentication for you and you will not need further configuration when you use it at another institution.

If you need help with eduroam, contact your home institution's IT support department. They'll be able to tell you what user name and password to use and what security settings their authentication system requires.

• Eduroam wireless network settings at UIC:
  • SSID (name of wireless network; it is case-sensitive):  eduroam 
  • Wireless authentication type: WPA2 Enterprise
  • Data encryption: AES
  • EAP Authentication Type or Outer Authentication Protocol: EAP-PEAP or just PEAP
  • Authentication Method, Authentication Protocol, or Inner Authentication Protocol: MS-CHAPv2
  • Validate server certificate should be checked
  • Trusted Root Certificate Authorities: AddTrust External CA Root should be checked
• Your Username and Password:
  • Username or Inner Identity is your eduroam identifier, is in the form of an email address. Members of the UIC community will use yournetid@uic.edu.
  • Password is your eduroam Network access token. Members of the UIC community will use their common password.

Use your UIC credentials to connect to eduroam at UIC before you go to another eduroam institution. But please do not use the eduroam network regularly while you are here at UIC; it is intended for visitors and there is a limit  to the number of people who can connect to it at the same time. It is okay to connect to it for testing, but frequent use  by members of the UIC community may cause their accounts to be suspended.

Eduroam is very new at UIC, and we have not had the opportunity to create documentation on how to use it. In the meantime, the instructions of Jacobs University in Denmark have the information on how to set it up for many operating systems and mobile devices:

How Tos regarding eduroam configuration from the Jacobs University in Denmark, but keep in mind that...

There are some details that are different for people at UIC:

Server: wireless-auth-2.cc.uic.edu

Outer and Inner identity: anonymous

Trusted Root Certificate Authorities: AddTrust External CA Root (You will have to accept our certificate the first time you login.)

Your Username and Password:

• yournetid@uic.edu.
• Password is your ACCC common password.

All UIC network settings are in given in Settings for the eduroam Network at UIC above.