Who May Use the Public Network?
Access to the Public Network is restricted to the university students, faculty, staff, official visitors, and sponsored guests and must be authenticated with an appropriate UT EID or a Guest ID.
Students, Faculty, Staff, and Official Visitors
Use your UT EID to log in. Your UT EID must reflect that you are a current student, faculty, staff member, or official visitor at the university (read more about official visitors). Faculty and staff with appropriate charging authority may order additional external bandwidth for groups of EID holders, such as students. See Requesting External Bandwidth for Projects for more information.
Sponsored Guests
This group includes conference attendees, lecturers, etc. Use Guest IDs provided by a host or sponsor to log in. The Guest ID is a temporary user name and password. Contact your sponsor to obtain a guest ID.
- Guests: If you are a guest at the university and need access to the Public Network, contact the conference coordinator or the department with which you will be working. Your sponsor can obtain a Guest ID for you.
- Sponsors: If you want to sponsor a Guest ID for a visitor, contact the Technical Support Coordinator (TSC) for your department. If no TSC exists, please e-mail networking@its.utexas.edu. Networking is unable to sponsor guests; they can only assign that ability to departmental representatives who take responsibility for guests' actions. Note that you can request Guest IDs only for sponsored guests.
- TSCs: Guest ID utilities are available on the TSC Tools page, under TSC Management Utilities. You must be authorized to create Guest IDs; please contact e-mail networking@its.utexas.edu if you need authorization.
