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god damn it
university networks are the epitome of retarded, i cant do ANYTHING.
eg. use AIM/MSN, play games, surf 90% of the internet...
any of you guys got any suggestions as to how to break past it?
eg. use AIM/MSN, play games, surf 90% of the internet...
any of you guys got any suggestions as to how to break past it?
Get chummy with the admins?
*chops up fish into little slimy pieces, and pours it on top of UncleDave and the admins* Problem solved!
can you change the port that vendetta works on? if so try 1217 <--VOIP port
that might do it. no guarantees.
that might do it. no guarantees.
Have a new cable line installed in the dorm? Options:
1. Get hired by the local cable company as an intern, and set up your dorm room with a separate connection. (Of course, this will COST you, but hey, it's non-monitored access.)
2. Same thing but with the local phone company, and DSL access instead of cable.
3. Work at the computer lab, get chummy with the admins and the folks who are WAY geekier than you are, get them drunk at a few parties, maybe get 'em laid, and then ask for your "return favor." (unfettered access)
4. If your dorm is near the edge of campus, find someone nearby with a wireless access point. Learn the fine art of wardriving. Use some poor sap's unsecured wireless access point.
5. If your dorm is near the edge of campus, find a vacant apartment or business, pose as a legitimate resident/businessperson, make an appointment for cable to be installed, but call at the last minute and say you can't make it, and to leave it uninstalled and "you'll pull the coax through when you get in later that night." Then, under cover of darkness, wire the cable into your dorm room instead. You may need to bury the cable, conceal it, etc. This may require digging, horizintal directional drills to go under streets, and other semi-nefarious schemes. If you go this route, make SURE you pay on time regularly. * (see NOTE)
6. Satellite. Slow but non-moniored.
7. If there are other businesses in the area near campus with line-of-sight transmitters that go from building to building, or that have wireless networks that are secured, get an internship there and use their network. If they have a line-of-sight transmitter that you can aim a receiver/transmitter at from your window, you might be able to use that network.
8. If there are local ISP's of ANY kind, you might be able to wire up a direct ethernet connection, again burying the cable as in step 5. This may require ethernet repeaters and some subversion as well. But the connection will be fast as hell. * (see NOTE)
9. Any combination of the above.
NOTE: In an urban environment, many people do not look "up." Stringing wire on or near phone cabling is a good way to remain relatively anonymous. Just put on a hard hat and a toolbelt while you do the work with a similarly-attired "partner", maybe set up a barricade and some blinking orange lights that you borrrowed from a construction area, and usually no one will ask questions. Make sure to stay away from electrical lines, tho.
P.S. I categorically deny any involvement in this sort of thing during my college years. There's no proof, anyway.
P.P.S. College/University years are the time when you can pull this kind of stuff off. When you have enough free time, enough chutzpah, and enough alcohol, you can achieve ANYTHING.
P.P.P.S. You can only split a cable line 3 ways before you experience SERIOUS signal degredation for cable modem, but you can split a cable TV signal at least 6 times and still get a decent basic cable signal to all the TV's...
1. Get hired by the local cable company as an intern, and set up your dorm room with a separate connection. (Of course, this will COST you, but hey, it's non-monitored access.)
2. Same thing but with the local phone company, and DSL access instead of cable.
3. Work at the computer lab, get chummy with the admins and the folks who are WAY geekier than you are, get them drunk at a few parties, maybe get 'em laid, and then ask for your "return favor." (unfettered access)
4. If your dorm is near the edge of campus, find someone nearby with a wireless access point. Learn the fine art of wardriving. Use some poor sap's unsecured wireless access point.
5. If your dorm is near the edge of campus, find a vacant apartment or business, pose as a legitimate resident/businessperson, make an appointment for cable to be installed, but call at the last minute and say you can't make it, and to leave it uninstalled and "you'll pull the coax through when you get in later that night." Then, under cover of darkness, wire the cable into your dorm room instead. You may need to bury the cable, conceal it, etc. This may require digging, horizintal directional drills to go under streets, and other semi-nefarious schemes. If you go this route, make SURE you pay on time regularly. * (see NOTE)
6. Satellite. Slow but non-moniored.
7. If there are other businesses in the area near campus with line-of-sight transmitters that go from building to building, or that have wireless networks that are secured, get an internship there and use their network. If they have a line-of-sight transmitter that you can aim a receiver/transmitter at from your window, you might be able to use that network.
8. If there are local ISP's of ANY kind, you might be able to wire up a direct ethernet connection, again burying the cable as in step 5. This may require ethernet repeaters and some subversion as well. But the connection will be fast as hell. * (see NOTE)
9. Any combination of the above.
NOTE: In an urban environment, many people do not look "up." Stringing wire on or near phone cabling is a good way to remain relatively anonymous. Just put on a hard hat and a toolbelt while you do the work with a similarly-attired "partner", maybe set up a barricade and some blinking orange lights that you borrrowed from a construction area, and usually no one will ask questions. Make sure to stay away from electrical lines, tho.
P.S. I categorically deny any involvement in this sort of thing during my college years. There's no proof, anyway.
P.P.S. College/University years are the time when you can pull this kind of stuff off. When you have enough free time, enough chutzpah, and enough alcohol, you can achieve ANYTHING.
P.P.P.S. You can only split a cable line 3 ways before you experience SERIOUS signal degredation for cable modem, but you can split a cable TV signal at least 6 times and still get a decent basic cable signal to all the TV's...
iiiinteresting.
3 and 4 seem the easiest...
3 and 4 seem the easiest...
oddly enough, that was a well thought out statemnet made by leber.
during his typing i am pretty sure he was Sobermac.
during his typing i am pretty sure he was Sobermac.
Just rememberin' my College days as DelinquentMac. Of course we didn't have cable modems back then or even any internet to speak of, but providing... cable services... was always an interesting way to bide the time between bouts of Tecmo Bowl™.
And aye, #3 (Human Engineering) is the easiest and also the most fun method, besides #5. Of course #5 could land you in a bit 'o trouble so I don't recommend it unless you REALLY want decent access.
And aye, #3 (Human Engineering) is the easiest and also the most fun method, besides #5. Of course #5 could land you in a bit 'o trouble so I don't recommend it unless you REALLY want decent access.
I miss Gopher and Archie from my college days...