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All new machines at MIT using DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) for IP address assignment need to be registered in order to have full access to all MIT networked resources. We have found that anyone using DHCP networking on both wired Ethernet and wireless need to do this. Though wireless may appear to work for a day or two via DHCP, inevitably the net access begins to degrade until the machine is registered and issued an appropriate registered IP address for the appropriate building subnet instead of the generic 18.2.*.* DHCP addresses. To register a machine at MIT you need to go here. MIT machines issued static IP addresses do not need to register.
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