Download and set up Eduroam - how it works

If you successfully download and set up Eduroam, you can access the Internet from university hotspots worldwide. As a student and employee of a college or university, you can use Education Roaming completely free of charge and without a VPN connection. We'll show you where to download the certificate, what settings you need to make successful setup, and where to get detailed step-by-step instructions for installing Eduroam.

Download and install Eduroam

Eduroam, the global education roaming, allows you as a student or university employee to access university networks in 74 countries. How to download and install the certificate:

1. You can get the "Deutsche Telekom Root CA 2" Eduroam certificate on the websites of all participating universities, such as Uni Hamburg and Uni Osnabrück.
2. If this does not happen automatically, install the certificate by right-clicking on the file and selecting "Install".
3. For example, you can check whether you have successfully installed the certificate by clicking the following link.
4. If the "Warning" appears here that the certificate has already been installed as a certification body, the certificate is installed on your PC without errors.
5. The Eduroam wiki may help with problems with Eduroam.

Set up Eduroam

The exact setup of Eduroam differs depending on your operating system. Generally you have to make the following settings:

• Set up a network with the name "eduroam" and the security type "WPA2-Enterprise".
• Set "AES" as the encryption type and use "Microsoft: Protected EAP (PEAP)" as network authentication.
• In order to integrate the certificate, you have to set that you "check the identity of the server by means of a certificate check" and establish a connection with the server "radius.lrz.de".
• Select "Deutsche Telekom Root CA 2" from the root certification bodies.
• Do not automatically use the Windows login name and password. Instead, enter your university or data center ID and your associated password as the user name.
• You can find detailed instructions on how to set up the certificate under Windows 8 to 10 as well as Windows Mobile, Linux, Mac, Android and Blackberry on the website of the computing center at the University of Leipzig.

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