Staff and students at the University of Suffolk can connect their personal devices to Wi-Fi through eduroam.

eduroam is a free, international internet access service for the Higher Education and Research community.

We recommend using the Configuration Assistant Tool (CAT) to connect to eduroam. There are a few additional steps to begin with, but using the CAT ensures your device is configured securely using the University of Suffolk’s customised installer.

To use eduroam at the University of Suffolk, you need to read and agree to the University of Suffolk, JANET and eduroam acceptable use policy. By configuring your devices and signing in to eduroam, you signify your agreement to all of these policies.

You can find guides for using the CAT or to manually configure eduroam by selecting your device below.

eduroam CAT

 

These guides were produced using an iPhone 8 running iOS 12.1 

Open Settings 

 

 

Select Wi-Fi

 

 

Choose eduroam

 

 

Input your University of Suffolk username, which will be your employee number followed by @uos.ac.uk and your employee password (which is the same password that you use to log in to MySuffolk) 

For example: e1234567@uos.ac.uk

 

Select Join

 

 

You may be prompted to trust the University of Suffolk's eduroam certificate. If so, select trust

 

 

You will now see a blue tic which means that you are now connected to eduroam

 

Open the Play Store then search for eduroam and download the application

 

 

Navigate to cat.eduroam.org then click to download the installer

 

 

Search for University of Suffolk and select the appropriate organisation 

 

 

Select the appropriate installer (please note, eduroam will usually default the installer to your current operating system)

 

 

Click Continue

 

 

Click Download

 

 

Click Open

 

 

Click Install

 

 

Confirm that you wish to install the profile

 

 

Input your University of Suffolk username, which will be your employee number followed by @uos.ac.uk and your employee password (which is the same password that you use to log in to MySuffolk)

For example: e1234567@uos.ac.uk

 

 

Your profile will now be installed. If you have an error occur, please check that your credentials are correct and repeat the process. 

Navigate to Wi-Fi

 

 

Select eduroam 

 

 

You should now be connected to eduroam 

 

Navigate to Wi-Fi in the system tray

 

 

=Select eduroam and hit connect=

 

 

Input your University of Suffolk username, which will be your employee number followed by @uos.ac.uk and your employee password (which is the same password that you use to log in to MySuffolk)

For example: e1234567@uos.ac.uk

 

 

You should now be connected to eduroam

 

Click the Wi-Fi icon in the system tray (bottom right)

 

 

Select eduroam and click connect

 

 

Input your University of Suffolk username, which will be your employee number followed by @uos.ac.uk and your employee password (which is the same password that you use to log in to MySuffolk).

For example: e1234567@uos.ac.uk

 

 

Select Connect

 

 

You will now see a blue box showing that you are now connected to eduroam

 

This guide will show you how to connect to eduroam on Linux, using the eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool (CAT). We recommend the eduroam CAT as this uses a Python script to configure your device for eduroam and should work on most distributions of Linux. These instructions were created using Ubuntu MATE.

 

1. Open https://cat.eduroam.org in a web browser and choose Click here to download your eduroam installer

 

 

2. Search for University of Suffolk in the list of institutions. Click University of Suffolk to open the installer download page.

 

 

3. Click on Download your eduroam installer (Linux).

 


 

4. Once downloaded, save the file. 

 

 

5. Open Terminal and change directory to where you saved the installer file. You will then need to run the command:


python eduroam-linux-Uos-UOS_eduroam_WiFi.py
 

In the example below, I changed directory to Downloads and then ran the command. After typing the first few characters of ‘eduroam’ press Tab and this should auto-complete the file name. Press Enter to execute the file. 

 


 
6. The installer will open. Press OK.

 

 

7. Select Yes to continue the installation. 

 

 

8. Enter your University of Suffolk staff number followed by @uos.ac.uk (for example, e1234567@uos.ac.uk) and press OK.

 

 

9. Enter your University of Suffolk password. This is the same password you use for other University systems such as MySuffolk. Click OK.

 

 

10. Enter your password again and click OK.

 


 

 

11. You’ll receive confirmation that the installation was successful. Click OK.

 

 

That's it! 

Settings Value
SSID Eduroam
Encryption WPA2 AES (enterprise)
Authentication Protected EAP (PEAP)
Inner Autentication EAP-MSCHAPv2
Outer Identity <leave blank>
Username Example: s123456@uos.ac.uk
Password User account password
Domain <leave blank>
Certificate AddTrust External CA Root
Servers ucsorps01.ucs.ac.uk; ucsorps02.ucs.ac.uk