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People accessing the wireless network at Dartmouth should choose from the following SSIDs:
- eduroam (education roaming) is intended to be the primary wireless network used on campus by Dartmouth faculty, staff and students. It is also the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. eduroam allows students, faculty, and staff from participating Institutions to obtain Internet connectivity when visiting other participating institutions. Connections made to this network will require authentication, and will encrypt data between the computer and the wireless access point.
Dartmouth users will need to have a certificate file installed in order to authenticate to this network, regardless of the institution you are at when you try to connect. Devices using this network will have a private IP address of 10.xxx.xxx.xxx while on campus. Any resources that require a Dartmouth IP address will allow connections from this network.
- Dartmouth Public is intended to provide Internet access for people who are on the Dartmouth campus, but who are not current Dartmouth faculty, staff, or students. This includes alumni, conference participants, and guests. This is an unauthenticated, unencrypted wireless network that provides general Internet access only. Devices using this network will not have access to resources elsewhere on the Dartmouth network. This means that any resources that require a Dartmouth IP address – including some Library resources – will not be accessible from this network.
(SSID stands for "service set identifier" and is the unique name given to each wireless network. Many wireless networks will broadcast their SSIDs so that users can see the names on their computers and determine which one to connect to.)