[Flip500]

I was searching and i had no luck finding an application to bypass things like firewalls and tcp blocks and things like that (if those are even the things that i should be worrying about) that are keeping me from playing online games, i am looking for a program exactly like PingFu Iris, but of coarse for mac, is there such a program, and if so where can i find it? Thanks for any help.

[Tomchu]

If your school blocks online gaming through some kind of packet-inspecting firewall, or simply by port, there's little you can do about it, short of SSH tunnelling your traffic to somewhere else (maybe).

But then it'd be really slow, and you might as well just not play games.

Why not just pay attention in class?

[Flip500]

haha, yeah don't worry i do... thanks anyway, i just saw people playing games with PingFu Iris and i thought there might be something like that, if it makes a difference i know it's through proxies (we always have to change the proxy settings in network settings even to use safari.)

[ghporter]

It is the school's network, and they have the right and responsibility to control and protect it as they see fit. You probably also signed an agreement that you would abide by their rules and not try to sidestep them as a condition of using the network.

I'll help you make YOUR OWN network do what you want, but this forum will not be used to subvert the controls the rightful owner of a non-private network has put in place.

Seriously, it's not yours to mess with. They have limits set up so that your online games don't suck up bandwidth that legitimate users need for legitimate purposes. You know, like research? Like homework? Not like playing games.

[Flip500]

i'd love for you to help me if it's at all possible, but i just feel that i have to clear up the fact that i dorm at school so it's not like i'm playing during class and i've contributed by paying tuition for the internet, i guess i'm trying to say i'm not wasting your tax dollars on this. And the agreement in the student handbook only talks about abuse through the internet; which of coarse i have no part in.

[ghporter]

Unfortunately then, you are in a position that has been constructed to handle the folks that download illegal copies of songs and movies, porn, and of course use up tons of bandwidth with endless World of Warcraft sessions. Even from the dorm, you're on the same network, and it's awfully difficult to isolate a dorm from the rest of the school without having completely redundant (and very expensive) hardware just for the dorms.

You could ask your IT department whether they could provide less limited access in the dorms-and get your advisor on your side before you start making waves about it.

99.999% of all "help me get around this block on someone else's network" posts have zero legitimacy. Yours is an exception, but only because you have explained that you're talking about after hours recreational game playing. And unfortunately, the answer is still the same-it's their network, and they have made and implemented these decisions. Sorry.

[Flip500]

it's fine i respect your reframe to maintain your professionalism... thanks anyway.