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Each August, Buffalo State faculty, staff, and students must download a renewed license for the Buffalo State secure wireless network. If your device won't stay connected, it's time to renew.

There are two important reasons to use the Buffalo State secure wireless network named Bengal: security and convenience.

Security: Wireless communication over this network is encrypted.
Convenience: Faculty, staff, and students can enroll their devices and log in only once a year (August). Persistent wireless connectivity is provided each time you come to campus, without the need to log in each time. Individuals can have up to five devices on the network (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop). Yes, you must re-enroll each August, and that means you must download the app yearly to each mobile device.

Please note: The campus has more than one wireless network. BengalOpen16 is a public network. By "public," we mean that information sent over this network is not encrypted. In addition, users are logged off after 15 minutes of inactivity and must log in again.

To recap, Bengal is the secure wireless network; BengalOpen16 is the public wireless network. To use the secure wireless network, you must download the Cloudpath application. You may link to it from the Secure Wi-Fi page on the RITE website by clicking one of the green “Enroll Your Device” boxes. Follow the instructions. You may delete the Cloudpath application once you have enrolled.

Why is the Cloudpath app so poorly rated in my app store?

If you read the reasons people give low ratings to the Cloudpath app, you will see that they are actually rating their wireless service as slow and mistaking Cloudpath as the wireless service. Cloudpath is simply the application that allows you to enroll your devices on our secure wireless network using your Buffalo State credentials. It is not the wireless technology itself, and it provides no bandwidth. Once you have enrolled your devices on the Buffalo State secure wireless network, you can uninstall Cloudpath. It has done its job. You must download it yearly to re-enroll on Buffalo State secure wireless. This occurs every August.