means Education Roaming, an institutional
association, which makes Campus resource available from a distant
institute for students and teachers. In the beginning European
Universities made the internet availability wireless for each others’
students/teachers. Nowadays it has grown worldwide and the number of
suppliers and users has increased as well.
Please check the monitor.eduroam.org/gmap.php webpage, from where you can get information about the access from all over the world.
The identification of WiFi access points (SSID) everywhere is called eduroam or the expression begins with this word.
In case of „eduroam” WiFi the host institute guarantees the means and network access. In each case the servers of the user’s own institute give the permission to the legal use. Someone from any member of the association can identify himself/herself at any connecting point with his/her e-mail address as a user name together with his/her password connected to the e-mail address. The user name-password combination is proper only in that case, if its owner is familiar with the conditions of use in his/her institute, he/she has accepted them and the service is given by the system administrators.We must emphasize 2 things: On the one hand each employee of each member-institute has the possibility to use eduroam, but not automatically. On the other hand if somebody cannot identify himself/herself at such a access point, this problem can be solved only in his/her own institute, the WiFi point operators cannot do anything.
The user himself must set the client computers. The operators of the access points are not obliged to give technical help, that’s why it is suggested for everybody to prepare the pc for using eduroam. It is easy to learn the setting.
Setup is extremely easy with the CAT (Configuration Assistant Tool).
While using 802.11x the network connection is secured between the client and the authenticating server. The certificate which is required for the private connection can cause problems at some systems. You can avoid the previously mentioned problem by switching off the “certificate validation”.
The connection speed can change from 1Mb/s to 130Mb/s.
The DHCP server sends you all the network information necessary to the IPv4 connection. All client computers are behind a firewall, where only well-determined ports are open.
he operational institute declines all responsibility arise during usage or outage (including, but not exclusively the virus infections and other security incidents).
The following ports are open for eduroam users:
