Virtual Private Network (VPN) offers a secure network connection that is layered on top of a public network, such as the Internet or from
EDUWIN. It makes use of the Internet's infrastructure to move secured data to and from the campus network. Using VPN, off-campus students and staff can still access the University's online resources in the comfort of their home computer, through their ISP (Internet Service Providers) like SingNet, StarHub, etc using dial-up or broadband service.
Through VPN, you'll have access to the University's e-services or computing facilities that are not made available on the Internet or WWW (World-Wide Web) i.e. access to your Laboratory's UNIX servers, network printers, file shares, personal web storage folders, etc.
Our VPN service uses the PPTP protocol, supported by Microsoft's suite of Windows operating systems. You'll need only your Network Account to login to this VPN service. For a quick guide on configuring VPN on your computer, please visit the Quick Start Guide.
VPN on NTUwireless
The convenience of wireless LAN also come with some inherent risks. To ensure full data privacy on NTUwireless, our campus wireless network, you can also use this VPN service to "dial-out" of NTUwireless - just as you normally would using VPN on the Internet to access NTU network.
For computers connected to the campus wired network, VPN connection is however not necessary. This service is not turned on for the wired network.
VPN client is behind the Corporate Firewall
Except for Singnet, Starhub or the overseas ISP, most organisations and universities have some form of firewall implementations on their internet gateway.
To connect to NTUVPN, the organization's Firewall requires PPTP traffic via TCP port 1723 & GRE protocol to pass through the Firewall.