UK Wireless
The UK Wireless Network requires all wireless devices to register their sessions before using the Wireless Network. A wireless session must be registered before opening any application that uses a wireless networking connection, such as email clients, FTP utilities and web browsers.
Two types of registration are available to wireless users. Anyone may register a wireless session by signing on as a guest, which requires only a valid email address. Guest registration gives full access to the Internet, but limited access to UK computing systems. UK students, faculty and staff can also use a valid U-Connect account to register their wireless session. Wireless sessions registered with a U-Connect account will have full access to both the Internet and UK computing systems they are allowed to access.
All users are required register their sessions before using the Wireless Network. To register a wireless session, one must open a web browser on the computer or PDA. When the web browser opens, the UK Wireless Network login page should automatically appear instead of the browser's normal home page. If the browser is not set to open a home page, the UK Wireless Network login page should be opened manually. Once the wireless session is registered by a guest or U-Connect account, the web browser page home page will automatically load, if one was specified for the browser. For laptop computers, a pop-up browser window will appear that allows the ability to logout of the wireless session. Networking applications can be used once the wireless session has been registered.
The registered wireless session is terminated when the wireless network loses connection to the wireless device for three (3) consecutive minutes. Once the session is terminated, the wireless session should be registered again. When finished with the UK Wireless Network, users should manually terminate or logout of their wireless sessions. Laptop users may logout of their wireless session by clicking on the logout link within the browser pop-up window. PDA users will need to terminate their wireless session by stopping the wireless services on their device for three consecutive minutes.