Using Personal Equipment at SOAS
We are keen to enable you (students, staff and visitors) at SOAS to access the resources that are available, such as Internet connectivity and the printing facilities, using your own personal equipment. It helps you to be more flexible in how and where you work and helps us to reduce contention on the public computing facilities. However, we do not guarantee that your equipment will be able to use all these resources. There are so many different types of personal computing equipment that it is impossible to to cover all options.
The instructions on these pages are designed to cover the most common devices. Please try to work you way through these instructions before asking for help. The LIS Service Desk will make best efforts to assist but in the case of unusual equipment, or at busy times, it may not always be possible to get you connected first time.
Instructions
We have put together a number of pages for a number of operating systems and devices that contain details on how to use the resources available on your system:
- Using Microsoft Windows devices on wired or wireless network (XP, Vista and Windows 7 only)
- Using Apple Mac OS X devices (excluding iPads) on wired or wireless network
- Using Linux devices (excluding Android tablets) on wired or wireless network
- Using other devices such as Android phones and tablets or iPod/iPhone/iPad
If you do not find your system in the list above then you should want to consult our Generic Information page and see if you can work out what needs doing yourself (if you do, then please let us know).
Connectivity
We maintain an 802.1X based 'eduroam' enabled network for wired and wireless connectivity, this network is usable to both members of the university and also the international academic community; we also provide for visitors a non-free wireless network service BTOpenzone. Once you are configured to connect here to 'eduroam' you should be able to connect internationally to any other 'eduroam' enabled organisation you visit.
N.B. If you have trouble connecting to 'eduroam', even when you are attempting to 'roam', you should still contact the SOAS helpdesk in the first instance.
Printing
We have recently introduced a new distributed printing and photocopying service using "multi-function devices" (MFDs) which support "pull" printing, scanning to e-mail and photocopying. The instructions for the use of these machines are in our Media & Printing Services pages. Follow this link for the instructions about Printing & Photocopying.
Conditions of Use
To use the service, you must accept and abide by the following policies:
