Janet roaming service (EDUROAM)

The JANET Roaming Service (JRS) is a free service will allows users from participating institutions (mostly UK Higher Education) to get a wireless network connection at any other participating institution using the username and password from their home organisation.

With JRS, the wireless network connection is provided by the local institution but the authentication request is forward to the user's home institution. It is your home site which decides whether to grant you access, not the site providing the network connection.

JRS is part of eduroam, which is a world-wide roaming access service. JRS users can get network access at participating eduroam organisations abroad, and foreign visitors from eduroam sites will be able to get an network connection at any JRS site.

The list of JRS participating sites is available from JANET Roaming - UK Sites Locations

The list of eduroam participating sites is available from the eduroam web site

JANET Roaming Service at the University of London

University of London Staff and Students

JRS and eduroam are provided for visitors to the University; the wireless network uol-secure should be used by users from the University with a UNIVERSE account as this provides access to local computing resources such as network shares and email.

However if you are planning to use JRS while visiting another institution, you will need to configure your laptop for JRS at the University of London and check it is working as the visited institution cannot sort out authentication problems for visitors.

Visitors to the University of London from other institutions

JRS/eduroam forwards authentication requests your home institution; so you should be about to get wireless network access at UoL if your institution is a member of JRS and/or eduroam. Eduroam at UoL is a wireless-only service; to use the service at the University of London, you will need a wireless network client that supports the authentication protocol used by your home site (usually EAP/PEAP or EAP/TTLS). These are support by most up-to-date computer operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux) and some smartphones. The wireless network has the usual name i.e. eduroam.

We strongly recommend that you configure your laptop or other mobile device before visiting the University of London as support for authentication problems can only be provided by your home site.

University of London staff/students visiting other institutions

When visiting other institutions, connect to the wireless network eduroam. If your laptop or mobile device is already configured to use JRS (see above), it should connect automatically.

Please note the institution you are visiting is not responsible for sorting out authentication problems. In particular you should check your UNIVERSE password is not going to expire while you are away.