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  • 10-02-2003 8:54pm
    #1
    divinebright
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭


    Ok im pretty much brand new to boards.ie and not sure what kind of help to expect but let me just say if anyone can help me out a bit its much appreciated.
    Anywho on with my problem. I recently bought a new Dell PC and am going to be moving it to college (DCU) next week, I live on campus of course. At first I thought this would be great as I'd have super fast internet, a big thing after coping with a 56k modem for years, however now im not so sure. Apparently the network I'd be connected to is behind the college firewall, pretty much stopping me from doing anything (I think!?!). Anyway I did a bit of research and came upon http tunnelers (particularly http-tunnel.com) which would seem to solve all my problems, at a price of course. Anyway to make a long story short is http-tunnel (@ http-tunel.com) the way to go or is there a similar program with similar high bandwith available for free (or perhaps a simple <cough>cracked<cough> version of http-tunnel. Also will I need a tunneler to play games on the net or do they just work fine behind the firewall?

    Cheers,
    divinebright.


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    #2
    Spooge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Spooge


    You'll need the tunneller for anything outbound at all. Of course, DCU res is home to LAN gaming in itself, but that can get boring.

    HTTP-tunnel seems to be the way people go about it.


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    milltown
    Registered Users Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭milltown


    At ~€5 a month I find HTTP Tunnel great value. I use it for file sharing and instant chat and it works a treat, d/ls up to 300kbps. Can't comment on it for games I'm afraid.


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    divinebright
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭divinebright


    Cheers guys...http-tunnel it is then, lets just hope it works for games too


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    #5
    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,147 ✭✭✭oneweb


    http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel/ - freeware, opensource.

    No idea how to work it tho :(

    If anyone can offer some assistance, I'd appreciate it ;)

    It is what it's.



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