USYD Wireless is coming to SIT

Edmund Tse on Aug 25th 2008

Recently, some white squarish objects that have been installed on the walls around School of IT. In case you’re wondering what they are, they’re actually Cisco wireless access points that’s connected to the university network. This means, anyone with a UniKey account will be able to access the internet while connected.

So far I’ve spotted 2 APs in the Masters area, and another AP in the SIT lecture theatre. All you have to do is to find the access point (named “usyd”), and connect to it. Then, you can connect to the internet via VPN or SSH, just follow our tutorials.

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Tutorial: SSH Port Forwarding

James Bunton on Dec 4th 2007

This describes how to use an SSH tunnel to access web sites from the UCC (University Computing Centre) wireless network. This is what you want to read if you’re an SIT student and you want internet access from your laptop in Wentworth, etc.

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Tutorial: Email Forwarding

Edmund Tse on Oct 26th 2007

Want to set up your Usyd UniKey email account and/or IT email account to forward to your regular email address?

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