wireless in Halls??

illiop

Hey! I brought up a wireless router thingy to halls and thoguth I could get wireless. I'm quite computer literate but know nothing about the technical side of things! When i have it all plugged in the only page I get is the intiall halls sign up page but I can't re-sign up with my own account or username. does anyone know away around it?

bythewoods

There's only wireless in Cunningham house AFAIK.

You have to buy one of those ethernet cable yokes, they're €5 in the SU shop (Or alternatively, can be stolen from A_Neurotic...;)) and plug your laptop in at your desk.
And then you have to sign into the network every time with your username and password.

Also, msn and skype don't work here, but my friend managed to get msn working for me the other night (Although it now won't work again )..
You have to like, go around proxy settings or something.

Basically, it's a load'a effort and I can't have laptop-in-bed times at'all.

SligoBrewer

bythewoods wrote: »

There's only wireless in Cunningham house AFAIK.

You have to buy one of those ethernet cable yokes, they're €5 in the SU shop (Or alternatively, can be stolen from A_Neurotic...;)) and plug your laptop in at your desk.
And then you have to sign into the network every time with your username and password.

Also, msn and skype don't work here, but my friend managed to get msn working for me the other night (Although it now won't work again )..
You have to like, go around proxy settings or something.

Basically, it's a load'a effort and I can't have laptop-in-bed times at'all.

Msn and skype work for me;)

But you can't redistribute the internet connection afaik in halls. So your wireless router is basically useless unless you want to set up a network for your music etc.

Jonathan

illiop wrote: »

Hey! I brought up a wireless router thingy to halls and thoguth I could get wireless. I'm quite computer literate but know nothing about the technical side of things! When i have it all plugged in the only page I get is the intiall halls sign up page but I can't re-sign up with my own account or username. does anyone know away around it?

Can't be done*

bythewoods wrote: »

Also, msn and skype don't work here, but my friend managed to get msn working for me the other night (Although it now won't work again )..
You have to like, go around proxy settings or something.

Basically, it's a load'a effort and I can't have laptop-in-bed times at'all.

Totally too much effort....



*make friends with a cs/comp eng student

timmywex

Or buy a 10m cable, runs all the way to the kitchen table if/when im bothered enough....

bythewoods

Jonathan wrote: »

Totally too much effort....

Yeah, I've done that! I even set up my friend's one here, but for some reason mine won't work. Even though it was working last week. BAD TIMES.

SligoBrewer

bythewoods wrote: »

Yeah, I've done that! I even set up my friend's one here, but for some reason mine won't work. Even though it was working last week. BAD TIMES.

You want me to trust you with my life when can't even set up Skype?
:eek:

aine-maire

Is it possible to use google chrome / safari in halls?

Jonathan

Should be possible given the correct proxy settings.

proxya.tcd.ie port 8080

aine-maire

Jonathan wrote: »

Should be possible given the correct proxy settings.

proxya.tcd.ie port 8080

Legend!:D

Oh to be all technologically-minded...:rolleyes::)

oil

To be honest, I think you can have wifi
{but I've not tested this, but theoretically I think it's possible, so this is merely an opinion not a satement of fact}.


But a router will not work, as you cannot connect a router to an internet connection via LAN, they're not designed for that{this is why you could connect to the TCD website}. You need a Wifi broadcaster {not sure if thats the right name, but anyhow}, they're the same things you see in lecture halls, the GMB, anywhere that has wifi really, they're the white things on the wall with the {green?} LED circle.

Or, you could simply use another computer that has an ethernet card and wifi capabilities, hook it up to your port via ethernet, and start a new wifi network on that PC, and then either bridge the connections or set up ICS { internet connection sharing (windows)} or IP masquerading(Linux)}.

You could even start selling wifi to the people living in your House, and make a fortune {But I wouldn't say you'd be allowed somehow... } but I dont condone this, unless you asked permission from the Warden first.

A Neurotic

Jonathan wrote: »

Should be possible given the correct proxy settings.

proxya.tcd.ie port 8080

I CAN USE CHROME AGAIN!

IE was killing me and Firefox just isn't the same. Thank you.

SligoBrewer

oil wrote: »

To be honest, I think you can have wifi
{but I've not tested this, but theoretically I think it's possible, so this is merely an opinion not a satement of fact}.


But a router will not work, as you cannot connect a router to an internet connection via LAN, they're not designed for that{this is why you could connect to the TCD website}. You need a Wifi broadcaster {not sure if thats the right name, but anyhow}, they're the same things you see in lecture halls, the GMB, anywhere that has wifi really, they're the white things on the wall with the {green?} LED circle.

Or, you could simply use another computer that has an ethernet card and wifi capabilities, hook it up to your port via ethernet, and start a new wifi network on that PC, and then either bridge the connections or set up ICS { internet connection sharing (windows)} or IP masquerading(Linux)}.

You could even start selling wifi to the people living in your House, and make a fortune {But I wouldn't say you'd be allowed somehow... } but I dont condone this, unless you asked permission from the Warden first.

Tried ICS. Epic fail.

oil

damn... what about a spoof network card driver then? after that I'm all out of ideas. and anyhow thats simply not worth the effort