The Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) has launched a Wi-Fi network service in the eight JUCC institutions by the end of September 2009. The service, building upon the newly developed Wi-Fi infrastructure, allows the students and staffs of the member institutions to use their Wi-Fi enabled devices to gain access to Internet at the JUCC Wi-Fi hotspots.

EdUHK students and staffs can configure their device with SSID "Universities WiFi" and log on the wireless network at the other seven institutions using their account username and password (NB: Account username in the format of UserName@eduhk.hk). Similarly, members of other institutes can use the SSID "Universities WiFi" available at EdUHK.

The JUCC Wi-Fi network service supports WPA/TKIP with IEEE802.1x authentication. In near future, WPA2/AES with IEEE802.1x authentication will also be supported in all JUCC institutions.


Configurations for setting up wireless network profile (802.1x):

SSID Universities WiFi
User Name UserName@DomainName 
(e.g. kwcheng@eduhk.hk)
Authentication Mode WPA
Data Encryption TKIP
EAP Type PEAP (EAP-MSCHAP V2)
Trusted Root Certification Authorities AddTrust External CA Root
Use Machine Information For Domain Logon Disable
Use Windows User Name and Password Disable
Notes:
  1. For more details about the JUCC project of collaborative development of Wi-Fi infrastructure, please refer to http://www.jucc.edu.hk/shared-services-facilities/.
  2. Detailed procedures on setting up a notebook using WPA can be found at Wireless Network Connection for staff and students through WPA/WPA2.