Every bedroom in Graduate House has an ethernet jack that you can use to connect your computer or other wired device. If there’s a wireless access point (“WAP”) in your room – a small white box on the wall near the floor – the jack you want to use is the yellow one on the bottom of the WAP. If not, there should be a jack in the wall of your room marked with blue plastic. Note that the ethernet and phone jacks at Graduate House are the same size, so make sure you’re using the right one! The phone jack is generally marked with red plastic.
To configure your computer, again, we can’t give detailed instructions for every operating system. But what’s important is that your computer be set to get its IP address and its DNS information automatically through DHCP. Once you’ve done that and connected your computer, start your web browser and try to go to any website – you should be redirected to http://resnet.utoronto.ca/ . (If the redirection doesn’t work for you, try manually entering that URL and see if that works – some computers detect the redirect as somebody trying to hijack your connection and block it.) Until then, it’s normal for your computer to report that it has no internet access or “limited” internet access. At that page, you’ll be asked to enter your UTORid and password (you’ll only need to do this once per device). You’ll then be asked to restart your computer. Do so, and you should then have full internet access.