Archive for the ‘Mobile Devices’ Category

Follow these steps to configure mobilEcho on your iOS device:

When you open the app you will be asked to enroll. Click “Enroll Now”.

Then enter the server address:

mobilecho.imperial.ac.uk

Then click “Continue”, enter your username and password, and click “Enroll Now”.

You will then receive a message saying “You are now enrolled with mobilEcho client management”, click OK and your Home directory will appear in the left hand column of the screen. When you click on your Home directory you will be asked to “Enter server password” (This is the same as your college password).

Your home directory contents will then be displayed in the right hand column.

In order to access your email on a Nokia Phone, you need to be able to run Mail For Exchange on your Nokia

For information about which devices are compatible, and how to install it, please see here:

http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/mail-for-exchange/how-to/getting-started/installing-mail-for-exchange

To access your Imperial Email;

1. Create a New email account from the Email application, and select Start.

2. Select Mail for Exchange as the email type.

3. Enter your FULL email address (firstname.lastnamedate@imperial.ac.uk), your Imperial password, your Imperial username, and then the domain IC and then click Next

4. If it asks for an email server, put in: exchange.imperial.ac.uk

5. Choose a name for the Mail account

6. Select which additional items to sync (in addition to Mail) and select how to sync it.

7. Go to the Mailbox to start the first sync.

It’s now very simple and easy to configure your Apple mobile device for the Imperial wireless, Mail and Calendars in a few quick steps.

Simple select the ‘Imperial’ wireless network (not Imperial WPA) and then, on the login page, scroll to the bottom and click the link for iPhones and iPads.

Clicking on this link will take the user to the profile setup page.

Here you can use the sliders to choose to install the College Wireless Network (Imperial-WPA), the College Email and Calendar services and the College VPN service for secure remote access to the College network.

After entering a valid College username and password the device will be offered an profile for download. Simply tap Install

If VPN setup has been chosen then you will be asked to enter your password again. Other than this there should be only a couple of seconds before the device confirms that the profile has been installed.

And that’s it!

If you have a college mobile device which you are planning to take abroad, please be aware of the following:

• All college mobile devices have international roaming switched off by default. You can request that this be switched on via your departmental telecoms representative.
• As part of the EU Data Roaming legislation all College mobiles have their overseas data usage capped at 50MB or £33.34 on a monthly basis. O2 have extended this beyond EU countries and it applies to all overseas data irrespective of the country it is used in.
• Heavy data users can request to be moved onto the higher rate cap which increases their limit to 200MB per month for a maximum charge of £100.
• For users that travel abroad on a very regular basis then a BlackBerry represents better value for money as you will be charged per day (or per month) rather than per megabyte, for more details and prices for Blackberry overseas usage please see the telecoms website.

For more information on international voice and data rates please visit the telecoms webpage.

To configure your Android device for use with your Imperial email address, please follow the instructions given in one of our helpful “How To…” guides:

• How to.. Set up your IC email account on an Android device

It is possible to connect most Nokia devices to the Imperial-WPA network.  If you have a College-owned Nokia device you may visit the Service Desk for help.

If you own a Nokia device yourself or would like to have a go yourself, you can follow these non-ICT instructions here:  Connecting a Nokia device to the wireless network

You can set up your mobile to access the college email service. We have written a set of instructions for the most popular devices, available at the links below

• iPhone instructions

• Blackberry instructions

• Other Active Sync enabled devices

There are two wireless networks available on campus:

Imperial-WPA is for use by students and staff. This is a secure network that provides access to all networked facilities.

Imperial is for guest access and instructions can be found here: Imperial Guest Wireless

We have put together some handy guides to help you set up wireless access from your laptop.

Wireless for XP

Wireless for Vista

Wireless for Mac

Wireless for iPhone

You can also connect with other mobile devices such as Blackberries, Google Android, Windows Mobile, Nokias and other portable devices with wireless built in.  Please note these devices will need to be able to connect to a WPA/WPA2 enterprise network.

We are in the process of updating our documentation for Windows 7 users, at which point our ICT Networks web pages and our How To guides will contain appropriate information. Apologies for the delay.