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Hi, my name is Ellen, and I'm a student consultant here at the OIT Help Desk at UMass Amherst.
I'm here today to talk to you about how to connect securely to our wireless network.
Please keep in mind that this will only work from on-campus.
The first thing you want to do is go to the upper right hand corner to the airport icon
and make sure that your airport is turned on.
From there you'll see two wireless networks available
the UMass network, and the UMass-Secure1X network.
Please be aware that if you see additional networks, they are not from OIT and you should not risk connecting to them.
Please also be aware that you won't automatically be able to connect to Secure1X.
Select the UMass network.
Go ahead and open up a browser window.
You should be redirected to the UMass Web Login for the UMass network.
Directly to the left of it though you'll see a big orange button. Go ahead and click on that.
You will be prompted for your netID and password, which is the same information you use to login to UMail and SPIRE.
Go ahead and click on Run XpressConnect.
From there, please check off the box that agrees to the terms and conditions and ask the utility to run if it doesn't automatically launch itself.
At the welcome screen, you will be prompted to enter your NetID and password again.
Your computer may ask you for your keychain password to allow the program to make changes. Please allow this.
If you don't have a password, leave the field blank.
During this installation, your computer will be automatically be connected to the Secure1X network
and you don't have to do anything, just sit back and watch.
Once you're successfully authenticated on the Secure1X network, go ahead and click the done button.
If you're able to navigate to external websites, which means websites that are not directly affiliated with UMass,
congratulations, you're successfully connected to the UMass Secure1X network.
You can always contact the OIT Help Desk if you have any questions.
The OIT Help Desk is open 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, Monday-Friday. But our website http://www.oit.umass.edu is always open.
Good luck, and safe computing!