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 that your device is actually connecting to UIC-WiFi. You should download and then install the certificate over a non UIC-Wifi connection prior to connecting:
  Download Certificate for Microsoft computers and devices
  Download Certificate for all other computers and devices
  The certificate should show as Issued to: InCommon RSA Server CA - if it doesn't then download and install the other certificate listed above.
  When installing you must Trust these certificates when prompted.
• 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.

ACCC Service Level Agreement (SLA)