Internet Connection on campus?

Octavarium

Could someone give me the lowdown on the internet connection in Larkfield?

I hear there's a filter to prevent the playing of online games, which sucks...I was lookin' forward to late night Warcraft sessions on my lappy!:D

Internet is of a good standard as it needs to be. You will spend most of your tv viewing(iptv by freewire) and family guy/american dad viewing online.

there was one person last year who was addicted to warcraft - only saw him at fire alarms. Do yourself a favour and get yourself permanently banned from that game...If ya like multiplayer games, join gamessoc, if ya like computers, join redbrick. Either way, dont be afraid to take part in any club/soc you are involved in. From my experience they are all very welcoming to first years although I have heard from other people that one or two of the most established societies tend to turn their "double-barrel name" noses up at first years but that is a debate for another time...

andrew163

Ah now. We only keep the gangly mutant ****s in case of emergency. We keep them locked up most of the time :pac:

Seriously though, the committees running clubs and socs will do anything to get first years to join and stay involved, it's kinda hard to keep a soc alive if there's nobody new joining Redbrick defnitely tries to be as welcoming as we can anyway..

As for WoW/gaming on campus.. CSD have shown willingness to unblock a number of ports to areas of campus accommodation for gaming, if you ask them very nicely, and do the research (which ports you need, etc) first. Don't just ask "Could you unblock WoW?", but ask "Could you unblock TCP port 3724".

There's a few other ways to get around the proxy, but they're a bit awkward, you need to know what you're doing. People in Redbrick might be able to point you in the right direction though...

Gamessoc also run a games server inside DCU... counter strike, quake, that kinda thing

Octavarium

Great! Thanks guys!


Yeah I was lookin at the gamessoc website there today, looks great! I'd be well outta my depth I'd imagine though, due to my complete suckiness at almost everything non-MMO

But yeah, thanks!