Wireless Network

The UIC community wireless network identifies itself as UIC-WiFi. Visitors to UIC may be eligible to use UIC-Guest or eduroam.

UIC-WiFi uses WPA2 Enterprise Security. WPA2 Enterprise implements the 802.11i security standard, which includes government-grade AES encryption and 802.1x authentication. The specific authentication method that we use with PEAP-MSCHAPv2.

• Your valid UIC netID and password for user authentication. 
• The wireless network's certificate, which ensures your device that it is actually connecting the UIC-WiFi. You might download the certificate the first time you connect to the network or you might install it when you are setting up your configuration. You might need to also install the Root Certificate that certifies the UIC-WiFi certificate.
• To be close enough to an UIC-WiFi ACCC public wireless access point. 

There are many devices that can connect to UIC-WiFi. Here are the ones that we have documented:

• Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
• Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4, Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6, and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
• iOS devices: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, and Mac OS x 10.7 Lion.
• Android OS 1.6 and higher for Android smart devices, including the Kindle Fire.
• Blackberries running OS 6.x -- including the Blackberry Playbook -- can connect to UIC-WiFi (and also eduroam) because they support PEAP + EAP-MS-CHAP-v2 for inner link security.
• Various types of Linux with many types of wireless cards can be configured to connect to UIC-WiFi. But please understand that the ACCC does not support connecting to UIC-WiFi with Linux. The UIC Linux Users Group has documentation and will help. Visit the UIC ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, particularly the UIC Linux Guides.
• Currently, we know of no method for connecting Palm or Nokia devices that are not running Windows Mobile to the UIC-WiFi network. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The UIC-WiFi public network may be used by members of the UIC community at no charge. Students who reside in UIC residence halls must pay the Res-Net charge; this part of the UIC-WiFi network is not public.

Vistors to UIC may be eligible to use either UIC-Guest or eduroam.

Policies

Everyone using the UIC wireless networks must abide by the ACCC Acceptable Use Policy. There are additional bandwidth and file-sharing limitations on the networks, described in the Acceptable Use Policy for Res-Net and the UIC Public Wireless Networks.