Any UCAR user (employee or long-term visitor) may create guest wireless access accounts for their individual visitors, or visiting groups of meeting attendees. By creating a guest account, you become a sponsor for the guests using the account.
Guest account durations will be limited to three days, but can be renewed repeatedly (up to two weeks maximum duration) by you or the assistants you specify when creating the account. If your guests will be here longer than two weeks, they'll almost certainly be better served by your having your divisional help desk or system administrator staff request wired connections for them.
To create a guest wireless access account for the visitors you're sponsoring at the ML, FL, and CG campuses, visit http://guest.wireless.ucar.edu from the UCAR internal network. For guest accounts at the RAF (Research Aviation Facility) at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (formerly known as Jeffco Airport), visit http://raf.guest.wireless.ucar.edu/.
In order for your guests to be able to use the wireless network, you need to tell them how to connect and log in. While you're doing that, you must also remind them to behave politely, since wireless bandwidth is a shared and limited resource. In addition, you or your divisional help desk/system administration staff will potentially need to assist them with troubleshooting problems with their client or with the wireless network itself.
If you are hosting a large or important meeting, your division will need to provide on-site or on-call technical support for your guests using your division's help desk or system administration staff. For smaller groups or individual visitors, providing support yourself initially, with the assistance of your division's help desk or system administration staff as required, should be fine.
Once you or others providing assistance have determined a given guest's access problem is not with their OS or client settings, you should be aware of and ready to follow our wireless network troubleshooting guide. We suggest you or those whom you'll call on for assistance print out a copy of the guide if you perhaps won't be near a wired internal UCAR network during your troubleshooting.
If the guide still does not answer your questions please seek assistance from your division's help desk or systems administration staff. This is their area of specialty.
If you're hosting a large or important meeting, we've provided a short slide deck in PowerPoint, Keynote, OpenOffice, and PDF formats as well as a printable web page for you to display or adapt for your introductory remarks. Please provide this information to your guests as you give them their seminar/guest username and password. You might also want to display it where the users can review it at their convenience.
If you're hosting a smaller or less formal meeting, please cover the points in the above referenced document in person with each of your users, or display the information where any who are interested in wireless access will see it as they get their seminar/guest username and password.
If you are a UCAR employee or long-term visitor, you can sponsor guests on the UCAR wireless network. Sponsorship gives you and your division certain responsibilities, such as supporting your guests when they have problems and educating them about limited bandwidth. You can fill them about those matters at the time you give them their login and access information.