The St. Olaf Wireless LAN
St. Olaf provides wireless networking in the following areas:
- All of the residence halls
- All of the Honor Houses
- Boe Chapel
- Buntrock Commons
- CEL Building (Modular Village)
- Christiansen Hall of Music
- Dittmann Center
- Education Building (Modular Village)
- Holland Hall
- Old Main
- Old Music Hall
- Porter Hall
- Rolvaag Library
- Science Center
- Skifter Hall
- Skoglund Center
- Speech-Theater Building
- Steensland
- Tostrud Center
- Green space between Buntrock, Science Center, and Mellby (limited)
Spaces with wireless network coverage are marked with signs that look like the picture above on the right. Moving away from walls and obstructions can improve the signal strength of the wireless network. More wireless networking tips.
To connect to the St. Olaf wireless network, allow your computer to scan for a wireless network and connect to the one called "STOWLAN". Alternatively, configure your computer to scan for the SSID "STOWLAN"
Warning
Information sent over our wireless network is not secure and is not automatically encrypted. We do not recommend using the wireless network for financial transactions or for items of a personal or confidential nature.
Services
The following services are supported on our wireless network:
- Web browsing
- Access to the central Novell servers (shared, stuhome, fshome, classes, prime).
- Printing
- E-mail (must be configured for secure IMAP rather than standard IMAP, see Enabling SSL for Email Readers)
- SSH and related services
- FTP via SSH, e.g., http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/ (Windows) or http://www.rbrowser.com/ (Mac)
POP-based email and FTP-based file-transfers are not available because they transmit passwords in clear-text.
Policy
Only St. Olaf-owned and managed wireless access points (WAPs) are allowed on campus. We will disconnect any other access points or other wireless network-sharing device we discover on our campus. For more information, please see: http://www.stolaf.edu/services/iit/policies/access_points.html