Eduroam is an initiative from TERENA which facilitates mobility among european researchers and students by offering 'wifi' connectivity in a series of institutions abroad which have joined the network. In this way, users from Eduroam participating institutions can access the Internet through the wireless networks of all the participating institutions.

The process of a user connecting to the wireless network of the visited institution is similar to connecting to his home wifi network: the username and password used for authentication are the same to his/her home network, the only difference might be the network access method.

BSC-CNS participates in the Eduroam project offering access to their own users and users coming from other participating institutions, under coordination from CSUC (IT services provider for catalan universities), which constitutes the technical and administrative link between participating institutions in the Eduroam project.

Access Method

The only authentication method permitted at BSC-CNS for accessing to Eduroam network is 802.1x.

802.1x is one of the most secure authentication standards. It is necessary a client software to establish an authentication session. TERENA recommends this protocol to ensure that only authenticated users can access network resources

How to access

To access the BSC-CNS wireless service, it is necessary to use the username and password.

You should add your institution domain (eg. @bsc.es) to identify yourself correctly at the world eduroam hierarchy.

Identification: username@domain / password

Configuration

To access BSC-CNS wireless networks you should configure your computer with a wifi card following the linux guide or windows guide.

Access point locations

All BSC-CNS building has wireless coverage.

Operations scheme

Support address

The wireless or Eduroam support address is eduroam [at] bsc [dot] es.