• A wireless equipped laptop running the 802.11b or 802.11g wireless protocol. 
• The wireless capability may be built in to your laptop, especially on newer models (e.g., Dell TrueMobile 1150). Alternatively, you can outfit an older laptop with a wireless card.
  
  Based on our testing, Campus Technology Services recommends two cards: the Linksys Wireless-G network adapter card and SMC Networks 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Adapter. Both are available in the College Store.

How do I determine if my laptop supports wireless?
Minimum requirements are as follows:

PC:

• 667 MHz Pentium III  processor or faster
• 64 MB of RAM or better 
• Available PC card slot 
• CD-ROM Drive (for installing the drivers)
• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Macintosh:

• 800 MHz PowerPC chip or higher
• Laptop needs to be “airport ready”
• Airport or Airport II card
• MacOS X (10)

What software do I need to connect to wireless?

In addition to the minimum requirements, you will also need a special VPN client installed on your computer in order to access the wireless network.  Wireless networks are inheritably in-secure by design. 

In order to protect the information that you are transmitting over the air on the wireless network, we require that you install VPN client software on your computer.  This software will encrypt any Internet traffic once you have authenticated, and will also keep un-authorized users off of our wireless network.  The wireless VPN client is available once you connect to the wireless network, or via the CTS software page.