Before we begin: These instructions will only work on the most recent phones/OS’s. The latest Blackberry OS (v. 5.0.0.411)was leaked out on the internet, but any of the new phones (Bold 9700, etc. will work as well). More info available at http://crackberry.com/leaked-os-5-0-0-411-blackberry-bold-9000-and-blackberry-curve-8900

So, let’s begin:

Assuming you’ve installed the new O/S already, or you have one of their newer phones (I think most of the new ones with the trackpad instead of the trackball should be fine..haven’t tested any other than the Bold 9700 though.

Start by going to “Manage Connections” and select “Set Up Wi-Fi Network” then choose “Manually Add Network” (you can also scan, does prettymuch the same thing).

If manually adding, the network name would be CAMPUS-AIR

On the next screen, set the different values as follows:

• Security Type: PEAP
• Username: <your student number>
• Password: <your network password>
• CA Certificate: <choose any certificate, you’ll be ignoring it anyways>
• Inner link security EAP-MS-CHAP v2
• Token: <none>
• Disable Server Certificate Validation: CHECKED

Now you can save the connection, or if you don’t want to save, just click connect.

That should be it..

Feel free to comment!

Thanks to Albert and Drew for helping/validating things for me

Here’s something that’ll hopefully stir some things up with the Canadian wireless market. Currently there are 3 major players in the Canadian wireless communications industry: Bell (BCE), Rogers, and Telus. Wind Mobile applied to be the fourth, but got denied by the CRTC on the grounds that the parent company, Globalive doesn’t have enough Canadian control in its company’s structure.

However, on Friday, Industry Minister Tony Clement overthrew that decision, claiming that after going through their case several times over, they have come to the conclusion that Globalive has enough Canadian control to operate in Canada.

Rumor has it that Wind Mobile is ready to mobilize and will be ready to launch before Christmas this year, which would mean that there is a lot of pressure on the Big 3.

What does this mean for us as consumers?

As the saying goes: the more, the merrier!

In other words, having more competition will push the other “Big 3″ to reduce their prices and/or improve their services, if they want to remain competitive.

Pricing

Prices can be found at http://shop.windmobile.ca/ProductCatalog/VoicePlans/ for their voice plans

Open Network And Sharing Center

Click "Manage Wireless Networks"

Click on "Add"

Click on "Manually create a network profile"

Fill in the choices with this information

Now, it will have added it, but wont connect, because you need to make more changes

Click on the security tab, and make sure the settings are exactly as shown

Click on the settings tab next to the PEAP dropdown and make sure the settings look like this

Press OK and close the window, going back to the old window, and press advanced settings. Make sure the settings are the same as above.

After you close the windows, you should get an authentication box like this. Type in your network username and password. You may have to do this a few times (I'm not sure why..)

If all goes well, you should have connected! If you’re having trouble, feel free to ask me in person, or leave a comment.