There should be announcements posted in your dorm. If you are in a Rutgers building that is on the network, there should be someone in your department that knows the procedures for getting connected. Please talk to your departmental office. There is a web page describing the procedures, Connecting to the Rutgers Network . However this document is intended for department staff, not individual users.
Most computers now come with appropriate software.
There are instructions for setting up networking on current versions of Windows, Linux, and the Macintosh in the New Brunswick Information Center web page. Look for your operating system in the navigation bar on the left edge of the page. Rutgers has software to do networking on Windows 3.1. However we no longer regard 3.1 as fully supported. We strongly request you to upgrade to a newer operating system.