UCC Umail (Google Apps) using on a mobile?

Solair

closeline wrote: »

Ya I am after resetting the student portal password now but what is that got to do with the old pin??

In my case anyway, it contained my PIN. They just added extra characters to my old PIN.

Perhaps yours is different, or you never had an old pin.

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Direct access to the Google Apps system seems to be no longer properly supported though. So, if it doesn't work, you'll have to look at the forwarding system instead!

closeline

Solair wrote: »

In my case anyway, it contained my PIN. They just added extra characters to my old PIN.

Perhaps yours is different, or you never had an old pin.

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Direct access to the Google Apps system seems to be no longer properly supported though. So, if it doesn't work, you'll have to look at the forwarding system instead!

Well I had a 5 digit pin at once stage last year..Would that be it?? Anyway I will try the forwarding system at the moment.

Solair

You could try that ... entered twice

Otherwise, I have no idea!

alsiet2011

Knasher wrote: »

Yeah the network admin people in UCC are crazily strict, absolutely 100% over the top. I'm doing a Ph.D. so I've been around to a few other colleges for conferences and the like and they are usually pretty open, even other colleges in Ireland.

I also think they go out of their way to make the network more complicated. There is no benefit to making students register their laptops given how easy it is to change MAC addresses on most devices. Additionally it is perfectly easy to make the proxy system auto configure, absolutely no idea why they choose not to.

The reason it works for me is probably because when they first set it up it wasn't misconfigured properly and I still had the option of changing my google password independent of their system.

if you change the mac address on the device you'll have to re-register the device once again. you only allowed 2 devices in ucc anyway and devices are enabled based on mac addresses. nowadays you can select automatically detect setitngs via the browser which works in most cases although sometimes you will need to go through the proxy. chrome is the best for ucc. IE doesnt work too well

Solair

I, like many students I know, gave up on UCC WiFi long ago. It's just too awkward as you can't use mail clients, online chat, or anything that's not a simple HTTP / HTTPS connection.

It's nearly easier to just bring a 3G dongle at this stage and the mobile networks are pretty fast.

The only slight downside of this is that you still cannot get ANY mobile reception in the Western Gateway Building i.e. the main IT building!
The building's structure acts like a Faraday Cage, blocking all radio reception

alsiet2011

Solair wrote: »

I, like many students I know, gave up on UCC WiFi long ago. It's just too awkward as you can't use mail clients, online chat, or anything that's not a simple HTTP / HTTPS connection.

It's nearly easier to just bring a 3G dongle at this stage and the mobile networks are pretty fast.

The only slight downside of this is that you still cannot get ANY mobile reception in the Western Gateway Building i.e. the main IT building!
The building's structure acts like a Faraday Cage, blocking all radio reception

you should be able to use mail clients. just make sure pop/imap is enabled on your account. not sure if this feature is still enabled domain wide but was when i was there last year. i worked in the IT desk also. good times.

Solair

alsiet2011 wrote: »

you should be able to use mail clients. just make sure pop/imap is enabled on your account. not sure if this feature is still enabled domain wide but was when i was there last year. i worked in the IT desk also. good times.

It never worked for me with IMAP anyway.
No longer on the network so it doesn't matter to me now But it was annoying all last year!