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Mansfield Wi-Fi

Commonwealth University provides an 802.11a/g/n/ac/ax wireless network deployed across academic and administrative areas of the Mansfield campus. This network is accessible to all faculty, staff, students, and guests.

Device Registration

Beginning June 23, 2025, all personal devices connecting to the Mansfield Wi-Fi must be registered. More information about this process is available in the Network Registration section.

Accessing the Wireless Network

You may need to disable MAC address randomization on devices before connecting to CU Online and CU Online Secure.

CU Online

This wireless network is available for personal devices belonging to faculty, staff, students, and guests. It will provide capable clients with encryption to protect your data from eavesdropping.

Devices with a web browser (computers, phones, and tablets) should automatically begin the registration process upon connecting to this network for the first time. If they do not, open a web browser and visit any website to initiate the process. Other devices will need to be manually registered.

If you are encountering issues connecting to this network, please see the Known Wi-Fi Issues page for possible solutions.

CU Online Secure

This wireless network is available for personal devices belonging to faculty, staff, students, and guests. It will provide all clients with encryption to protect your data from eavesdropping.

Devices must be registered before connecting to this network. Once registered, each device will be assigned a unique password that must be provided when connecting.

CU Managed

The CU Managed network will not work on personal devices.

All University-managed devices are automatically configured to connect to this wireless network. It is not necessary to manually configure university-managed devices, and doing so may cause problems.

Requirements

  • WiFi (802.11a/g/n/ac/ax) capable device (laptop, tablet, or smartphone)
  • An active Faculty/Staff/Student university account or guest account

Performance

To ensure the best possible performance of official university services, personal wireless access points and wireless routers are not permitted. If network personnel determine that a rogue wireless device is the source of interference, it will be disabled and removed from the university network.

WiFi is a shared service and can be affected by many factors, such as:

  • Activity from other people on the same access point
  • Interference from other devices (such as wireless speakers, wireless game controllers, and devices using bluetooth)
  • Personal WiFi access points or routers

Your device's connection speed also depends on the WiFi technology it supports. Devices supporting the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard will achieve the fastest speeds. Older WiFi devices not capable of supporting Wi-Fi 6 will work, but at a reduced speed.

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