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Joe St Sauver, Ph.D.
Director, User Services and Network Applications
joe@uoregon.edu
If you are "just barely" off campus, you may see "signal leakage" from a UO wireless access point located nearby. However, you should not expect to routinely receive reliable UO wireless service at any off-campus location. Moreover, even if you are able to connect to a network off campus that claims to be "uowireless," you should not assume it is the real UO wireless network; it may very well be a misconfigured private access point or someone masquerading as a genuine UO wireless access point in order to capture your network traffic.
Because you authenticate to the UO wireless network by providing your email address and password, you should be sure that you provide those credentials only to the secure web page at https://uowireless.uoregon.edu/
Even then, you should make sure the SSL certificate for that host is valid before providing your information.
Whenever you use the wireless network, you should also always protect your wireless traffic from being overheard by eavesdroppers. One way to do that is by using the UO's Virtual Private Network (VPN), as described at http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2002/vpn.html
If you have any questions about the UO's VPN service, see http://micro.uoregon.edu/getconnected/vpn_overview.html