Help with Poker installing

Mellor

now that i've got wireless broad band access i've decided to install PPP on my laptop. I already have an account and play from my home pc,
but i need something to do between lectures.
Anyway i went to the PPP site and tried to download the software,
downloaded the installer ok but when i tried to run it i got an error msg
"unable to communicate with network server"
or something to that effect



does anybody know why this isn't working or how i can get around this
thanks

jacQues

Mellor wrote:

does anybody know why this isn't working or how i can get around this thanks

I would guess that your school has a firewall that prevents such traffic. Can you surf the net normally? Your solution would be to use a web-based poker site.

jacQues

Mellor

Thats what i thought, but my mate installed the software on his laptop yesterday, sitting right beside me, and last year it worked fine
could it be my security software, i didnt think so as i would get a pop up warning

5starpool

Could it be something to do with your port setup?

ntlbell

I know what's wrong

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White Knight

I am 99.75% confident it is your security device. This problem occurs often when security providers change their system settings. Just allow paddpowerpoker in to the system and it should be fine.

To test .. if u switch off your security system (which i would not advocate) and open the poker client, it would work.

ntlbell

White Knight wrote:

I am 99.75% confident it is your security device. This problem occurs often when security providers change their system settings. Just allow paddpowerpoker in to the system and it should be fine.

To test .. if u switch off your security system (which i would not advocate) and open the poker client, it would work.

He's trying to connect from inside a college network.

It works at home from the looks of his post.

So I'm not sure it's his "security device"

White Knight

sorry didnt realise it was college net .. many a site i tried to download in college with a little bit of success!

In that case .. if it works at home on your said laptop .. it is the college security device/firewall (virtually same thing) thats preventing it. If you are getting Error 26 is nearly always a security device issue.

White Knight

In response to trying to get around it ... what i used to do at college was save the poker clients to a different drive where they didnt have a firewall set up.

It worked for 3 years!!

ntlbell

White Knight wrote:

In response to trying to get around it ... what i used to do at college was save the poker clients to a different drive where they didnt have a firewall set up.

It worked for 3 years!!

A different drive? Firewalls have nothing to do with what "drive" you save the client to tbh

White Knight

yep, right u are ...

Just realised my problem was installing the programs .. needed admin rights which were set on independent drives.

ocallagh

Strange that your friend can connect ok... There must be a resolution to this!!

When downloading for the first time, you need to run an upgrade (just once normally). The upgrade includes a bundle of software updates which can be quite large. The PPP client may well use a different protocol to download the upgrade then it would to just connect to the server for playing poker. I would guess FTP is banned on your network, and if you download PPP on your laptop at home and then bring it into college it should work fine:)

If that doesn't work....

1) If u have a computer at home with broadband you could setup a logmein account (www.logmein.com). That way you can log onto your PC at home, from your laptop in college (using http) and then do anything you want. You just need to leave your PC at home switched on and connected to the logmein service.

Only works if logmein website is allowed through your college proxy tho.


2) Employ Ntlbell to hack around this issue for you