Accessing the WU Wireless Network
Owners of wireless digital devices can have wireless (Wi-Fi) access to the Internet at the many "wireless hot spots" on the Washington University campus. For free guest access, click on the available network named GUESTWiFi-WUSTL. No authentication is required. The guest network is not secure. If you are an admitted, degree-seeking student you will have been issued a Washington University E-mail account. Your E-mail name and password will serve as authentication for secure wireless ("wi-fi") access.
For secure Wifi access you must have a Washington University E-mail account, obtained through University College.
These following instructions are for a laptop computer. For iPhones and iPods, click here. For other platforms, click here.
Switch your computer on.
The next step is to make sure 1) that you are in a campus "hot spot" that receives wireless service and 2) your laptop has installed in it a 802.11b wireless network card. Newer laptops have this card already built in. If your laptop is older and doesn't have this card, the wireless network is not available.
Wireless access is available at these Hilltop campus locations ("hot spots"):
Holmes Lounge
Bowles Plaza
Mallinckrodt Dining Area
Olin Library, All levels
Most classrooms
January Hall's East Asian Library
Arts & Sciences Computing Center
Lab Sciences Building
School of Engineering
McMillan Hall - 2nd floor AFAS area
McMillan Hall 149
Biology Library
South Brookings
Eads Hall
Social Work Library
Gaylord Music Library
Ursa's Cafe & Patio
Friedman Lounge
South 40 Swamp
Simon Hall
Bixby Hall
McMillan Hall - West hallways
Compton/Crow - Physics Library
McMillen Laboratory
Danforth University Center
3) In Windows, launch your browser.
4) If you see a Certificate box, accept it. Then you will be automatically directed to a Log-in page. Log in like this:
ID: youremailname@artsci
Password: Your Washington University E-mail password
EXAMPLE: My WU E-mail name is jdoe@wustl.edu, so to log in to the wireless network I would type in:
jdoe@artsci
and then type in my Wash. U. E-mail password. (If you have forgotten your password, you cannot access the wireless connection until you have it.)
Now you can access your WU E-mail account and browse the Web
WANT A SECURE CONNECTION? It's called WUFI-S. Click here and follow the instructions. There's a download, and the installation (for XP) has 27 steps, but installation is not complicated and screenshots show you how. You can get a secure connection with an I-Phone, Mac, or Windows.
HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE LOG-IN? NOTICE: your wireless log-in ID name IS *NOT* YOUR WHOLE W.U. E-MAIL ADDRESS, it is ONLY the part of the address that comes BEFORE the symbol "@" ("at"). And after that, all you need to type in is "artsci". Please do not add "wustl.edu" -- it will not work. The reason you type "artsci" is that University College students access the WU wireless system through the "Artsci" (Arts and Sciences) Computing system.
Now you should be connected.
Have no laptop? Get on the Net at the many standard PC computers that can be found at Olin Library, or at the Arts & Sciences Computing Lab on the lower level of Eads Hall. The Arts & Sciences Computing Lab has 60 computers and is open until 12 midnight Mondays through Thursdays. To use the lab, you must show your Washington University ID card.
