Warning: Please do not bring personal routers to the UFIT Help Desk for assistance.
Registering a Personal Router in Graduate Housing
- On a device that is connected to the internet, open a browser and navigate to getonline.ufl.edu
- On this page, select the Wired Device button in the top right corner
- On the next page, select the Student Wired Device Registration link
- If prompted, login with your GatorLink credentials
Note: This page will include the wireless device instructions; you can ignore those when connecting a wired device.
- Find the Wan Mac Address for your router (usually found on a label on the bottom or rear of the device)
- Select the Wired button under Select Service
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For wireless routers you will need to go into your device settings and set a unique network name and password (please no room numbers in the network name)
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- Select your village - wireless router from the Select Device Type Drop-down menu, enter any relevant notes, and then select the Submit button
- You may now connect your device via an ethernet cable.
Warning: If you already connected the device to the network before registering it, you may need to restart the device or un-plug the ethernet cable and plug it back in for it to update.
Certain brands of routers require you to change the WAN address by one digit for it to connect properly. If your device is still not connecting after registering it, register it again, but this time change the last digit of your WAN MAC address by one. For example if your WAN MAC address is 12:34:56:78, change it to 12:34:56:79. If your last digit is a letter, do the same thing a to b, c to d, etc...
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For further assistance, please contact the UFIT Help Desk.