Wi-Fi Access

About the service

There are three Wi-Fi networks at Griffith University:

• Griffith University
• eduroam
• Griffith Public Wi-Fi

This service supports students and staff to connect wirelessly to Griffith’s online resources (eg. Blackboard, shared drives, Staff portal) and the Internet is enabled through this service. Griffith’s Wi-Fi service supports large range of laptop and mobile devices including:

• Laptops using Windows 7/8, Vista, XP, Mac OSX, Linux
• iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices
• Android, Nokia, Windows phone 7 & Chromebook devices

eduroam

Students and staff of Griffith University who visit other universities can connect to another university's eduroam Wi-Fi network. eduroam is an agreement between educational institutions to share access to their Wi-Fi networks to enable inter-institutional roaming.

Getting connected to the Griffith University and eduroam Wi-Fi networks

Setup guides are available for various operating systems to configure personal computer to use the Griffith University and eduroam Wi-Fi networks. This only needs to be done once. Once connected to our Wi-Fi network, the following services are also available:

• Student Wi-Fi Printing - Student Wi-Fi Printing enables printing from a laptop to any campus common use printer
• Network Storage - Network Storage provides Griffith University staff and students with secure access to personal files stored on the Griffith File Servers

Griffith Public Wi-Fi

Griffith Public Wi-Fi is a pay-per-use Wi-Fi network. It is intended for visiting patrons to Griffith University who do not have a Staff portal account and are not from an eduroam participating institution.

Remote access

We offer a number of way of gaining flexible remote access to university resources including modem dial-up and Wi-Fi broadband, whether in Australia or abroad.

This service is available to

Academic staff, Professional staff, HDR students, Undergraduate students, Postgraduate students, Alumni, Visitors