Office of Information Technology at Ohio University

Office of Information Technology at Ohio University

Wireless Network Capabilities

You can use Ohio's wireless network to access all of Ohio's central IT services, including:

Oak E-Mail

Network Storage

Oracle Calendar

Blackboard

Most other Internet functions, including web browsing, secure telnet (SSH), and secure FTP (SFTP) also work over our wireless network.

How We Handle Security

The first time you connect to Ohio's wireless network, your computer may warn you that you are connecting to an insecure network. This warning is true in a literal sense, as we do not encrypt traffic between your computer and the wireless access point; however, our network is more secure than meets the eye.

All centrally administered servers on the Ohio network require the use of secure applications when connecting to them. Any time you connect to Oak, Blackboard, Oracle Calendar, etc., your session is encrypted not just between your computer and the access point but all the way from your computer to the server. In fact, our wireless network is configured to block the most common insecure methods of connecting to remote servers, including: