• This service is available to all staff and students who have a wireless network card installed in their laptop. Any "WI-FI" 802.11b/g/n compliant card should work.
• First you need to install your wireless card according to the manufacturers instructions.
• While most network cards will connect to the 'School of Computing' wireless network automatically you may need to connect manually.
• Then you need to configure your web browser.  For Internet Explorer, follow these instructions.
• Step 1. Start Internet Explorer
• Step 2. Click tools
• Step 3. Click internet options
• Step 4. Go to the connections tab
• Step 5. Click lan settings
• Step 6. Type 'http://www.computing.dcu.ie/proxy.pac' into the Automatic configuration script address box as shown below and click OK.You may need to restart Internet Explorer.

• Availability of this service is conditional on the policies governing the good conduct of network usage as specified in the documents listed : http://www.computing.dcu.ie/current/support/labrules.html
• If you have completed the proxy configuration and failed to connect manually then the next thing to check is if you are receiving IP information from the network.

Connecting manually

Most network cards will come with a connection client utility that can be seen as an icon in the system tray (bottom right hand corner of your screen). If you click on this icon it should display a list of available wireless networks.

If there is no specific connection client utility then you can follow the procedure below :

1. Click Start
2. Click Settings 
3. Click Network Connections
4. Click on the icon for your wireless card
5. Click the 'View Wireless Networks' button.
6. A list of available networks should be displayed
7. Select 'School of Computing' from the list and click 'Connect'

IP information from the network

How do I check my ip information?

To check if your IP information is correct follow the procedure below.

1. Click start
2. Click run
3. Type command in the open box
4. When the command prompt comes up type ipconfig

If the IP address setting begins with anything other than 136.206.218.X (eg. 169.254.10.22 or 0.0.0.0) then we have identified the problem and you should follow the procedure below.

1. Right click on My Network Places.
2. Go to Properties.
3. Double click on Wireless Network Connection.
4. Click on Properties.
5. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties.
6. Click Obtain IP Address automatically.
7. Click Obtain DNS server address automatically
8. Click OK and Close