eduroam (Education Roaming), is a RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1X security technology to allow for inter-institutional roaming. If your institution is a member of eduroam, users visiting any other member may log on to the WLAN using the same credentials (username and password) as those at their home institution. Depending on local policies at the visited institutions, eduroam participants may also have additional resources at their disposal. All this with a minimum administrative overhead http://www.eduroam.org.
SOWN has added eduroam access so that academics from around the world can log onto the SOWN network using their academic username and password. Due to the security issues associated with CaptivePortal type systems, eduroam's policy no longer allows the use of a web login system. For this reason, eduroam access is now only available using 802.1x.
All SOWN[at]Home nodes offer an eduroam SSID for use with your academic account. SOWN community accounts, and members of the University of Southampton should use the [SOWN]-8021X or [SOWN]-HOME ssids instead.
SOWN is currently working on implementing a full 802.1x compliant SSID and support for the forthcoming Open1x client, so that we can can offer the normal eduroam service.