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The Vistua Network's internal wireless LAN (WIFI) is available to our users following these instructions:

SSIDs

The SSID is a unique name that identifies each Wireless network. The following SSID(s) are used by Vistua's internal LAN.

• Celery

Authentication

The Wireless Network uses WPA2 authentication. This means that you have to enter a password but do not need to use a specific username. The password is available upon request from administration.

Setting up

These instructions are for desktop UNIX and Windows operating systems only, VNS does not provide formal support for other operating systems. Please see your vendor's documentation

Step One

Go to your desktop. Look for a wifi icon. It looks like this: or (may not be blue). It is usually located in a toolbar at the top or bottom of your screen.

Step Two

Click on that, a menu appears listing all available WIFI networks by SSID. Select "Celery" (or another SSID listed above, if any). On Windows you must then click "connect"

Step Three

If you are prompted for password please enter it. Follow any other on screen prompts (I.E. click "ok", "next", etc)

Step Four

You are done. Should your system offer to remember the password it is OK to allow it to do that.

Registration

For computer-devices that will connect regularly, it is important that you contact administration about registering your device's MAC address¹ so that your device will always be granted the same internal IP number.

This step is important because it allows the network to always locate your specific device, which is necessary for some WLAN services to work properly. It is also necessary for your machines hostname to work reliably.

After this process, it is very important that you not change your machine's hostname without consulting administration!

You should also configure your hosts file according to these instructions.

Other information

Celery

SSID

Celery

Type

802.11g [Infastructure mode]

IPv4 method

Automatic or DHCP²

Generally, other settings available to your operating system should be left alone. In particular, "MTU", "BSSID" and "MAC address" should not be changed! This network does not use IPv6

Notes

¹ This is not necessary or suitable for smartphones, PDAs etc, even if they connect regularly.

² "DHCP address only" mode wont work correctly.

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