A message went out last night from Larry Conrad to all staff and faculty about CalVisitor and eduroam. A lot of our faculty travel frequently, so I sent out a note encouraging them to set themselves up with AirBears2 if they haven't already and I included a couple of links I thought might be helpful. Since our department manager thought it worth passing along to the other departments she manages I thought I'd share it here too in case any of you might find it useful as a basis for something to send out to people you support. Feel free to edit, remix, etc. If any of you have experience with eduroam elsewhere already and have any tips or caveats, please let us know!
John *** A little while ago you will have gotten a message from Larry Conrad about new WiFi options, but since many of you travel for research and conferences I wanted to underscore the second, eduroam. This will allow those of you who've set up an AirBears2 key to log onto wireless networks at many other institutions. I know some of you have already switched from AirBears to AirBears2, but not all of you have. You may find this makes it worth the few minutes required. See: https://www.eduroam.us/eduroam_us_institutions for a map and list of US institutions that accept eduroam (UC Berkeley isn't listed yet); see: http://monitor.eduroam.org/eduroam_map.php?type=all for a map of non-US institutions. You can also see them as a (very long) list by clicking on "text" after "List of service locations" at the top. (Hint: It's probably easiest to use your browser's search function - Control-F or Command-F - to check for an institution of interest instead of scrolling to look for it.) To set up an AirBears2 key, see: https://kb.berkeley.edu/page.php?id=30571 The great practical advantage of using AirBears2 here on campus over ordinary AirBears is that you don't need to enter your username and password nearly as often; ideally, just once. *** -- John McChesney-Young, Administrative Assistant History of Art Department, 416 Doe MC6020 U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720-6020 jmccyo...@berkeley.edu // voice 1-510-642-5511 // fax 1-510-643-2185 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past.
