Wireless Access at the University of Mannheim

Legal requirements

• Please follow the rules of netiquette and the terms of use.
• The university wireless may only be used for academic and teaching purposes.
• The university uses wireless encryption in order to secure your privacy and protect your data.

Technical requirements

• All common operating systems are supported.
• Students of the University of Mannheim can also access the WLAN at other universities in the eduroam network using their Uni-ID and the corresponding password.
• External students must have a valid account at a partner institution of the eduroam network in order to log in with their Uni-ID.

• Devices with wireless adapter (802.11a/g/n/ac)
• IP configuration of the wireless adapter: DHCP
• The wireless adapter must support WPA2 (+AES) encryption. 
• Root certificate of Deutsche Telekom (installed on almost all devices by default)
• The operating system on the device must support 802.1X + PEAP (this applies to all current Windows, Android and iOS versions). 
• Access profiles (click here) 

The university’s wireless network is available on campus every day from 6 a.m. – 2 a.m.

You would like to set up your client manually? Here's what you need:

• Uni-ID (user ID): UNI-ID uni-mannheim.de 
• Anonymous identity / external identity: anonym uni-mannheim.de 
• SSID: eduroam
• Network authentication: WPA2 (Enterprise)
• Data encryption: AES
• Authentication: 802.1X EAP(PEAP)
• Authentication method: EAP-MS-CHAP v2
• Address: DHCP

Root Certificate
To use the certificate, please right-click “Save as...”, otherwise this may be automatically stored in the browser's local certificate store.

Current certificates can be found at: https://corporate-pki.telekom.de/GlobalRootClass2.html

Note for Windows users: After downloading to import, right-click on the certificate → Install certificate.