Network & Telephone Services
Connecting your computer to the network
Wired connections
You will normally be able to connect your own computer to your College or Department network and thence to the Internet via the University network. Your College or Departmental Computer Officer should be your first point of contact - please do not connect your own computer without first talking to them. Students will be told by their Colleges how to set up a connection. Information for IT staff about institutional connections to the network is available.
Wireless connections
Much of the University is now covered by wireless connections to the CUDN. See the pages on Lapwing and eduroam.
Safety
Computers in the University are constantly being attacked and breaches of security happen all too often. The security of University and College networks is the responsibility of all who use them. If you have, or will have, a computer attached to the University network (CUDN) either directly, or indirectly via a College or departmental network, then you are responsible for its safety and security. You must ensure that:
- All accounts are protected by strong passwords. Many systems have easily-guessed, or worse still non-existent, passwords on some or all accounts. These include personal accounts and administrative accounts. This gives some of our attackers a very easy way in indeed.
- your machine is only running software that you need and know about and you are not running unnecessary services
- you keep all your software up to date with patches, hotfixes etc.
- your anti-virus, and other anti-malware, protection is kept up to date (free anti-virus software is available from the University).
For fuller details please see