Since the fall of 2008-2009 school year, there have been two options forconnecting to the Virginia Tech network by wireless card. One network,called '''VT-Wireless''', operates by means of WPA2 Enterprise and is secured with EAP/TLS. The other network, called '''VT_WLAN''', is an unsecured, captive portal wireless network.While connections to VT-Wireless are secure by default, andrequire no user authentication once set up, the setup to connect toVT-Wireless has a number of steps. In contrast, set up setup for connectingto the unsecured VT_WLAN network is negligible, but you will berequired to manually authenticate each time you connect. [''NOTE: see [#VT_WLAN_Auto_Login below] for scripts on how to enable automated authentication to VT_WLAN.'']The table below summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of connecting to the two wireless LANs(although this can be scripted).

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