How To Use eduroam At Purdue

The following section is from the eduroam web site. The eduroam page has a lot of information about eduroam and how it works and I would encourage users to look it over.

What is eduroam?

eduroam (education roaming) is the secure worldwide federated network access service developed for the international research and education community.

What does it do?

For the traveler: eduroam provides per-user, per-session encrypted network access for visitors from participating institutions, without the need to gain guest credentials on arrival to an eduroam enabled location. The connectivity is instantaneous and the infrastructure is authenticated by the user. Study abroad students can join thousands of eduroam hotspots without any hassle or any data roaming charges.

For the institution: eduroam removes the administrative steps required to provision visitors from other educational institutions. Access between networks from R&E institutions is negotiated once during the federation process and for all members of participating institutions. The eduroam network addresses CALEA requirements for visitors from other schools.

For Traveling Purdue Faculty and Staff

If you are traveling to another institution you should first look to see if that institution is a member of eduroam. Lists of US-based and international institutions can be found on their website. You will notice that Purdue is listed under "Institutions in Testing".

When you get to the remote institution that is participating, their wireless network should be broadcasting a wireless network name (or SSID) called eduroam. Click to join eduroam and you will be asked for a username and password. Your username is your Purdue Career Account (PCA) login name concatenated with @purdue.edu such as pcauser@purdue.edu. Your password will be your PCA password, not your math password.

How you join a wireless network is specific to the OS of your laptop and will leave this to the user. I am sure you can get help from their admin staff if necessary.

For Visitors To Purdue

For visitors to Purdue it is the same as traveling except visitors must manually join the eduroam network at Purdue.

For the present time visitors will not see a wireless network named "eduroam" being broadcasted and will instead have to manually join the eduroam network with their wireless device. Manually joining the eduroam network is a one time operation per device.

How a visitor manually joins a wireless network is specific to the OS your wireless device. In the event you need assistance, please ask the staff where you are visiting. In general there should be a "Join A New Network" in the network portion of the OS. For the Network Name use "eduroam" and for the security type try WPA2 Enterprise for laptops. Once you enter this information you should begin seeing the SSID eduroam being broadcasted. Click on eduroam as the network you want to join. You will be asked for a username and password. Visitor will need to ask their institution what to use for their username and password.