Eduroam
Stony Brook has enabled Eduroam, the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.
As part of our ongoing commitment to providing our campus community with secure, high-performing wireless connectivity, Stony Brook University is refreshing our on-campus Wi-Fi. Beginning July 22, 2026, Eduroam will become our primary wireless network, replacing WolfieNet-Secure. At that time, all WolfieNet-Secure content will be removed from our IT websites.
Eduroam is already available at all Stony Brook University locations, including Southampton. Instructions for how to connect can already be found in the Getting Connected FAQ section of this page. Beginning July 22, 2026, Stony Brook Hospital and other East Campus locations will also transition to Eduroam.
Additional information and instructions for connecting to eduroam will be shared with the campus community on June 22, 2026.
Eduroam is a secure Wi-Fi roaming service for the global academic and research community. It allows students, researchers, and staff from participating institutions to access the internet both at their home campus and while visiting other participating institutions.
When connecting to Eduroam, users authenticate using the credentials provided by their home institution. This enables secure network access with minimal configuration and eliminates the need for the host institution to create or grant guest accounts.
Eduroam supports seamless connectivity for visiting faculty, researchers collaborating across institutions, conference attendees, study abroad students, participants in NCAA activities, and others engaged in academic exchange and travel.
User credentials are not revealed to the institution at which an Eduroamer joins, but instead are only revealed to their home institution, providing an extra measure of comfort for visiting users. Thus, the Eduroam network also provides a simple and automatic guest provisioning system. A participating institution may rely on a visitor's home institution to authenticate them for the duration of their stay.
Eduroam is available at all campus locations (including Southamption), with the exception of Stony Brook Hospital/East Campus locations. Eduroam will be available at Stony Brook Hospital/East Campus beginning July 22, 2026.
A legitimate .edu email address from participating institutions is required to use the service.
Stony Brook University users should use the SecureW2 onboarding tool to securely configure and connect to Eduroam using their NetID credentials. Users who connect manually through their device's Wi-Fi settings must enter their username in the format of NetID@stonybrook.edu and use their NetID password. Please see the FAQs below for more details.
Users from visiting institutions should consult their IT department and use their school's User ID and password that has been assigned to them (e.g. jsmith@nyu.edu or js123@nyu.edu).
Today's common operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, many smartphone OSs, and most current Linux distributions all ship with 802.1X supplicants, making Eduroam simple for users to join and for educational institutions to support.