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Wireless Networking at Olin College

The following wireless networks are available on campus:

  • OLIN: Secure, authenticated wireless access to Olin online resources.
  • OLIN-VISITOR: Internet access for visitors to the Olin campus. Users will be prompted for a simple visitor registration. Connection bandwidth may be limited.
  • OLIN-DEVICES: For use by Olin affiliates for devices that only work with a pre-shared network key. The password is changed annually in August. The current password is available on the my.olin.edu portal (login required) under Our Community / Information Technology. Connection bandwidth may be limited.
  • OLIN-ROBOTICS: For use by the Olin Robotics Lab. Please contact a faculty member in the Robotics Lab for more information.
  • OLIN-GUEST: This network will be disabled on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at noon.

Windows 7

Windows 8

Configuring WiFi in OS X

Configuring WiFi in Linux

Manual Config: 802.1x Wireless Information for Olin

:!: Please note that if you are using a computer with an Olin provided image you should be using the provided wireless profiles.

When opening your wireless configuration utility, you may see multiple network names being broadcast, but Olin has one wireless network for all of campus aptly named: OLIN

  • Select the OLIN network and choose an option to connect with WPA2 Enterprise options with AES encryption.
  • Olin is using MS-CHAP V2 with PEAP encapsulation as the authentication protocol.
  • Choose an option to authenticate with user credentials
    • Your username should be entered as olin.edu\username or username@olin.edu where username is your Olin network username if required.
      • Please note that if you are using username@olin.edu that this is not your email address
      • For example, if your name were Joseph Student your username would be jstudent. You would enter olin.edu\jstudent OR jstudent@olin.edu
  • Set an identity to olin.edu\username or username@olin.edu where username is your Olin network username if required.
  • Our server is not currently using a validation certificate