Eduroam
Stony Brook has enabled Eduroam, the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.
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 NetID@stonybrook.edu and use their NetID password.
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 joining Eduroam simple for users, and simple to support for educational institutions.