Ohnoes! Bl0x!
<div class="IPBDescription">I am bl0x0red</div> Some (or none) of you may have noticed my reply in another thread mentioning my university's internet connection, and the pwningness therof. The university promises "unrestricted" internet access, and for the first three days they really did deliver on that promise, but when you give several thousand 18-23 year-olds free unlimited internet access, I doubt I need to tell you what happens next.
Viruses.
As a result, ports 6667 and some other port... started with a 4 anyway... have been totally blocked. Many of you may know that port 6667 is the standard IRC port. This is where most of the viruses came from. Freaking nubs. The other port, so it seems, is a port commonly used in online games, thus I am screwed.
I can start up steam, I can preload HL2, I can even find servers for games of NS, but when I click on one, whoosh, 2000 ping (I don't know what sound a ping makes but I assume it would be a whoosh). I can't play planetside either, for which I am still paying a monthly fee for.
Thankfully, this is only temporary. I have no idea what they plan on doing to stop the viruses (probably a hefty firewall, bleh), but once it is in place they will unblock the ports in questions. When asked how long this would take the answer was "a few weeks". I really would have expected a computer-science orientated uni like Reading to realise this was going to happen.
So until then i'm pretty much stuck single-player. I can still download stuff, I just can't use any online games, as I said.
Has anyone else had bad experiences concerning university (college for you Americans) firewalls? And more importantly, what can I download with this bad-**** connection to make me forget about my lack of online gamage?
Viruses.
As a result, ports 6667 and some other port... started with a 4 anyway... have been totally blocked. Many of you may know that port 6667 is the standard IRC port. This is where most of the viruses came from. Freaking nubs. The other port, so it seems, is a port commonly used in online games, thus I am screwed.
I can start up steam, I can preload HL2, I can even find servers for games of NS, but when I click on one, whoosh, 2000 ping (I don't know what sound a ping makes but I assume it would be a whoosh). I can't play planetside either, for which I am still paying a monthly fee for.
Thankfully, this is only temporary. I have no idea what they plan on doing to stop the viruses (probably a hefty firewall, bleh), but once it is in place they will unblock the ports in questions. When asked how long this would take the answer was "a few weeks". I really would have expected a computer-science orientated uni like Reading to realise this was going to happen.
So until then i'm pretty much stuck single-player. I can still download stuff, I just can't use any online games, as I said.
Has anyone else had bad experiences concerning university (college for you Americans) firewalls? And more importantly, what can I download with this bad-**** connection to make me forget about my lack of online gamage?
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That and I'm listening too the C&C Generals USA tracks <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And you can start downloading some fan dubbed big anime series (which is legal if the anime is not licenced in your country), its great fun. Try out Naruto for example...
This year they changed things. They started out with every single internet port turned off. They had to check each person's computer to make sure they had antivirus software installed before opening that person's connection. It couldn't be any antivirus software, it had to be what the school was providing. From what I saw, it took a little while before everyone had internet access (I no longer live on campus, but I work in the dorms).
This year they changed things. They started out with every single internet port turned off. They had to check each person's computer to make sure they had antivirus software installed. It couldn't be any antivirus software, it had to be what the school was providing. From what I saw, it took a little while before everyone had internet access (I no longer live on campus, but I work in the dorms). <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
If only real life worked that way.