wireless access

[nyphrost]

Ok i'm a student in a cuny college and i have a Dell XPS laptop. ok i tried to log on to World of warcraft, but im blocked off from it. I went to know if there is a way i can "get around" the so called firewall or blocking software. any advice would be awsome. thx

[Sparda]

Ask the admin to give you access.

[nyphrost]

Ask the admin to give you access.

he won't let me. i tried, he said he's not allowed to

[Sparda]

Dosn't that mean that if you get access by bypassing any security thats in place you can be arrested for computer missuse?

[nyphrost]

Dosn't that mean that if you get access by bypassing any security thats in place you can be arrested for computer missuse?

well let me explain. i do have access to the internet. all and everything on the internet, i just think that they blocked high bandwidth or something like that. I think they did it for students not to access limewire and stuff like that. but i really want to play my game. any advice

[Sparda]

Ask the admin why you can't connect to WoW servers.

[armadaender]

Looks like he's blocking particular ports. Although I don't know if WoW uses one particular port or more. I don't see why he/ahe would be blocking them but I would do as Sparda suggested and simply ask him why he's blocking WoW, and probably other apps, ports/traffic.

Here's a good question, is it possible to encrypt WoW (or any game for that matter) traffic? I can't see how because it's not like utorrent (built in functionality) but then again there may be something out there that's capable of it.

[PoyBoy]

gotta be a way. or just change the port, of tunnel it through something that isnt blocked. trouble is you need a exit point outside the school network.

[metatron]

Set up your own WOW server.

Google “BlackStorm Serverâ€

[leetabix]

You can use a method like the paid (the free won't be fast enough I'm guessing) http tunnel service (www.http-tunnel.com), to tunnel through port 80, which you should have access to. You could also use something like Hamachi, a vpn client...but as Sparda said, if you haven't got the permission of the admin you could get into trouble for it.

[anyedie]

You can use a method like the paid (the free won't be fast enough I'm guessing) http tunnel service (www.http-tunnel.com), to tunnel through port 80, which you should have access to. You could also use something like Hamachi, a vpn client...but as Sparda said, if you haven't got the permission of the admin you could get into trouble for it.

ahhh! i felt special thats what i was gonna say... until i scrolled down!

[jollyrancher82]

Stop playing games during school hours, and learn something instead. :roll:

[armadaender]

Stop playing games during school hours, and learn something instead. :roll:

As a fellow college student I would have to defend nyphrost here and state that if I were to study all the time and not take a break to play a game or two every once in a while, I would probably become catatonic and die of starvation with my business law book in my lap.

One can only take so much of bullshit classes before losing their mind.