What is eduroam?
Eduroam - (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.
Eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions by simply opening their laptop.
Having started in Europe, eduroam has gained momentum throughout the research and education community and is now available in over 100 territories.
Eduroam is available in thousands of locations across over 100 countries worldwide. From campuses to coffee shops. Which places exactly support eduroam can be checked here (Poland) and here (worldwide).
Eduroam allows any user from an eduroam participating site to get network access at any institution connected to eduroam. Depending on local policies at the visited institutions, eduroam participants may also have additional resources at their disposal.
The user credentials are kept secure because eduroam does not share them with the site you're visiting. Instead they are forwarded to the user's home institution, where they can be verified and validated.
The system uses a network of servers run by the institutions, and the participating National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to securely route these requests back to your home institute.
Eduroam provides authenticated network access at any location where the service is enabled.
Each participating organisation offering network access to authenticated users is able to apply its own filtering policies as long as it is clearly informing users about the filtering rules.
Eduroam in Poland is avilable via the infrastructure of the PIONIER network, and networks of institution members of the PIONIER consortium.
How to use eduroam
Configuration is available here.
After initial configuration of the eduroam network, you should be able to connect to eduroam anywhere, assuming the eduroam is available.
More information about the eduroam service can be found here:
- Eduroam in Poland (UCI UMK - Toruń)
- Eduroam worldwide (TERENA)