If you are a student living in a residence hall you should register your machine with the Residence Hall Network Service System . Once registered, your machine may be used on residence hall network connections or Open Network connections. If you are a student not living in a campus residence hall you should register your machine with the Commuter Student Network registeration system. You will be able to use Open Network connections. Once registered, your machine should be setup to use DHCP to obtain it's network configurations.
Instructions are available here .
Open Network connections can be ordered using the new Service Request Forms . Fixed location Computer lab machines should not be placed on Open Network connections at this time. This page is maintained by Networking Operations.