Getting through Uni firewall :(

Late · Post by **Late** » 08 Jan 2006, 19:26

Hi all.

As some of you may know I'm back at uni now- which means no WoW allowed

. Now a while ago I tried a couple of free programs to try to get through that pesky firewall and try and be able to feed my addiction which unfortunately didn't work.

Since I know a couple of people in SMOdium are dab-hands at computery things I thought I might post a link that I found. I want to know if you think it is worth buying this tunnelling program called HTTPTunnel. It costs money so that's why I'd like your opinions

If it works then maybe I'll see you soon again. Anyway here are a couple of relevant links so if you have a couple of minutes spare in the near future would you clever clever Europeans mind having a quick look and telling me what you think?

Thanks in advance guys. See youse soon.

http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/default.asp

http://www.http-tunnel.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=171

Morlog · Post by **Morlog** » 08 Jan 2006, 20:03

it costs money? but university networks are steaming cesspool of copywright infringement. i can find any program i want free on the university network. it helps if you have computer engineers somewhere on campus preferably in the back somwhere so their hidious appearances and strong smell of unvashed body and cheetos doesnt bother other students

Post by **Vigz** » 08 Jan 2006, 20:10

I suggest you try it out with their free service. It doesn't cost money but the bandwith is real low but it's enough to try and see if you can connect to the WoW servers.

I tried for myself with sockscap and their free http-tunnel service and it worked fine for me. Had a ping of about 400 ms but spells were casting fine ;)

One thing you must understand you must add WoW to sockscap and start it from in there and not the usual way. If you can connect and play on the free low bandwith service I'd suggest upgrading to the paid service. If you can't connect I'll try to troubleshoot as much as i can like last time untill we're sure it's the damn firewall thats fucking up again and not some misconfiguration ;)

EDIT: If you are trying this out now. Retrieving characters and login is taking ages atm. If you get through even with free service don't be surprised for 5+ minutes to get character list and login.

Late · Post by **Late** » 08 Jan 2006, 20:43

K well let me mention something I forgot about earlier =)

I know that the tunnelling thing didn't work last time Vigz but I think I told some people there was someone here at Uni who plays WoW. He plays it through a tunnel called 'Your-Freedom'. When I try to access the your-freedom website to register with them and download their program I find that the uni denies access to the network which probably means that some forms of tunnelling do work

Also I can actually connect to the WoW servers through the uni firewall anyway. However it gives me a latency of at least 5000 and I can't do anything

So just testing the free service probably wouldn't work because I know I can in theory access the servers anyway.

To be honest it only costs $5 a month which is like Ã‚Â£3 so I think I might try it out for a month and see how it goes.

Thanks for the help so far

Post by **Vigz** » 08 Jan 2006, 20:51

The reason why previous solutions didnt work was because they all tried to make the uni firewall redirect to another port while it only allows port 80. When the firewall recieves a request to reroute traffic to a port other than 80 it refuses. With http-tunnel all trafic is going to THEIR servers and only on port 80. Once the trafic reaches their server THEY reroute it.

But as I said in my first post their free service does work for me so try if it works for you. If it does work you can subscribe to the paid service.

Late · Post by **Late** » 08 Jan 2006, 21:02

Yeah but the only way (and tell me if I'm being stupid

) to know whether the free service will work is if I can access the WoW servers when I use it and you say that the service will probably be quite slow because of the very small bandwidth.

However I know that I can *already* access the WoW servers at a very low speed without HTTPTunnel's free service and so that test won't really achieve anything..

Post by **Vigz** » 08 Jan 2006, 21:08

It's easy to check if http-tunnel works or not Late. Disable http-tunnel and start WoW from within Sockscap application. Now it should not be able to connect. Why? Sockscap uses http-tunnel. If http-tunnel isn't running WoW that was started from within Sockscap won't be able to connect at all.

Now start up http-tunnel and run WoW from within Sockscap again. If that succeeds it means it connects through the http-tunnel program :P

Late · Post by **Late** » 08 Jan 2006, 21:13

Hehe thanks

I wasn't doubting your superior knowledge or trying to be annoying Vigz sorry

I get confused very easily so I need to always get things very straight in my mind

I'll try it but I'm about to go out now so I'll do it soon and let you know

Thanks a lot as always