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Internet games via a LAN
Posted by felix Having been through this situation for 4 years I can assure you that if you are living in Uni College accomodation, the only way you can play online games is if you pay for the bandwidth with a private ISP. That is of course if you are allowed to dial-out through the PABX which is also highly unlikely. You could always hope that an ISP has a local WIFI point though (this wasn't available when I was at uni). The bottom line will be this for a college: All ports will most likely be blocked and any traffic to the outside world will go through a proxy (http/ftp) or a mail server. There are ways around this via tunnelling programs etc but it contravenes(sp) school policy so expect to be raked over the coals if caught. You won't get thrown out for doing it because you aren't doing anything illegal but you may have your account restricted. This is done so that nobody from the outside world can see/exploit unprotected computer systems and to stop Kazaa and all other sh1tware from contaminating the network. It also means that they can be seen to be attemtping to limit piracy of movies, music etc etc etc by blocking these programs and not allowing anyone to run any type of server other than for legitimate educational uses. There are huge fines for organisations that do not actively discourage piracy or allow it to go unabated. Best solution for you - find a bunch of people within your uni/college who enjoy the games and play against them. You'll still have the same amount of fun and everyone will have great pings/no lag. Plus, as you know the people personally, you can beat the crap out of them if they cheat or exploit the server. F. |