About Wireless

What do I need to get connected?

You need a laptop, phone, tablet, or device that either has built in wireless connectivity or a third party wireless adapter that supports our wireless standards (as listed below).

How do I login?

All Students: Access will be available 2 weeks before your registered courses start and will continue until 2 weeks after the course ends.
Flexible Learning (Part-Time) Instructors: Access is available 2 weeks before courses you are teaching and will continue until 2 weeks after the course ends.
Faculty and staff: Access is available to you during your employment at BCIT.

How do I connect?

The method of connecting depends on the operating system you’re using. In general there are two networks available, BCIT Secure and eduroam.

For further information on how to connect to BCIT Secure and eduroam, or on officially supported operating systems, see the Knowledge Base articles below.

How to connect to both wireless networks using the most popular operating systems.

If you or others are experiencing Wireless connectivity issues in a specific area at one of our campuses, please contact the the ITS Help Desk.

802.11A/B/G/N/AC/AX compatible wireless LAN cards

You can connect to the wireless network using any device that supports the following standards and protocols:

802.11A/B/G/N/AC/AX compatible wireless LAN cards
- We strongly recommend ensuring your device supports at least the AC or AX standards.
- For more information on Wifi standards please refer to this article published by the IEEE.
802.1x required for the use of BCIT_Secure or Eduroam
- WPA2-Enterprise required for 802.1x
  - Unlike the wireless network authentication protocol commonly found in residential environments (WPA2/WAP3) which uses a pre-shared key (aka a password), BCIT’s network authentication protocol requires a valid Username and Password to be provided to successfully login to the network.
  - For more information on the WPA2-Enterprise protocol please refer to this article
- EAP (PEAP) required for 802.1x

Most mainstream North American Laptops and Cellular devices support these standards and protocols. If your unsure if your device supports these protocols or are having difficulty connecting to BCIT’s Wifi, please ensure your device’s operating system and Wifi drivers are up to date and review the the manufacture and vendor support documentation.

Individual guest accounts are available for the BCIT wireless.

Student access	Staff and Faculty access
Internet	Internet
Servers provided by your instructor	Private servers (that is, any servers set up by individual instructors and internal BCIT instructor resources)
OneDrive – BCIT file storage (Cloud)	OneDrive – BCIT file storage (Cloud)
Access drives with Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP): ShareIn and ShareOut (I: and J:) drives	Mapped drives (S: N: I: J: Z: and departmental drives) available with use of myVPN by installing it on your device.

eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.

Eduroam is a education and research oriented network that connects international education institutions world-wide and allows users of member institutions to securely access the internet and home institution resources.

Where can I use Eduroam?

Eduroam is accessible at any location (School, Hospital etc) that is partnered with the Eduroam program.

If you are a BCIT Employee, Instructor or Student, it is available to you at any other Eduroam partnered institution.
If you are a visiting Instructor or Student, and your home institution is a member of Eduroam it is available at all of our campuses.

For additional information on where Eduroam is usable please visit their website for their interactive map.

What can I access through Eduroam?

Access through Eduroam is entirely based upon the policies of your home institution.

For visiting Instructors or Students of member institutions, you will have access to the internet and whichever home institution resources your IT policies allow.

For BCIT Employees, Instructors and Students this means you will have access to some of the internal resources available on campus:

Student access	Staff and Faculty access
Internet	Internet
Servers provided by your instructor	Private servers (that is, any servers set up by individual instructors and (some) internal BCIT instructor resources)
OneDrive – BCIT file storage (Cloud)	OneDrive – BCIT file storage (Cloud)
Access drives with Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP): ShareIn and ShareOut (I: and J:) drives	While using myVPN: Mapped drives (S: N: I: J: Z: and departmental drives) available with use of myVPN by installing it on your device.

How Secure is Eduroam?

Eduroam leverages the same security standards (802.1x and PEAP) as any other Wifi network offered at BCIT.

For additional information on Eduroam please visit their website – eduroam.org.

About Wireless

What do I need to get connected?

How do I login?

How do I connect?

Connecting to BCIT Secure or Eduroam

Where is wireless access available?

Which wireless standards are supported at BCIT?

What if I don't have a BCIT ID?

What can I access through the wireless network?

What is Eduroam?

Where can I use Eduroam?

What can I access through Eduroam?

How Secure is Eduroam?

More information about wireless at BCIT