If you are planning to travel overseas and will need to dial in to campus, you should do the following before you go. Talk to ITS about joining an Internet Provider Set up a wumpus account at least one week before you leave campus. Help These instructions are provided for informational purposes only. If you are unable to establish a PPP connection, check carefully over each step. There is a charge for this service and bookings are essential.
Connection is limited to three hours.
To try and reduce the University's internet traffic costs due to unauthorised users, the University has recently introduced web authentication, which means that while browsing the web, you will be asked to enter your user name and password. For more information visit Authentication page. If you are having problems connecting, check the problems page for possible solutions. This can be either imap or pop, depending on the software being used, e.g. Netscape Communicator uses imap, Eudora uses pop. If using pop make sure you choose 'leave messages on server' in your mail preferences.