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Green Templeton College | Oxford

Connecting Personal Computers

Every room on the college site and in college owned houses is equipped with an ethernet socket allowing you to connect your computer directly to the internet, local resources including online libraries and the college filestore. You do not need a College computer room account to use the ethernet network.

Personal computers are connected to the College network at the discretion of the IT Department. To connect your personal computer to the Green Templeton network, you must take your machine to the IT department. Here it will be checked for viruses, spyware and banned software. Personal machines require a firewall, automatic security patches enabled, and a current antivirus product running before they will be connected. 

At the beginning of the year there will be a number of laptop registration sessions timed to run shortly after arrival. Please attend these sessions wherever possible. Details are in your welcome packs. If you are unable to make it to a laptop registration session, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to book in a time for registration.

Rules

Using the network you are bound by both the university rules on computer use and the college rules of computer use. Please make sure you read these.

These rules include:

  • You MUST have an up-to-date virus checker installed, or install one immediately after connecting. If you do not own one the university allows members to install Sophos Anti-virus free on their computers. See details of how to obtain Sophos. Note: As new viruses are discovered daily you must keep your virus checker up to date. Refer to the program documentation to see how to do this.
  • Windows updates / OS security updates must be regularly applied.
  • Do not run any servers such as a mail server or a web server (if you don't know what these are then you won't be running them). If you want to run one contact the IT Manager first.
  • Disable File Sharing, or if you must use file sharing ensure all shares have a password on them.

What will I need?

You will require a computer equipped with an Ethernet card and an Ethernet cable. MODEMS do NOT work on the Ethernet network; you must have an Ethernet card. This is the same regardless of the type of computer. Most modern computers come equipped with these as standard. If you do not have an ethernet cable you can buy one from the IT department for a few pounds.