Sonicwall in gateway

AndyOHart

Hey guys. Just moved into gateway on sunday. My mate was here last year and said that the Internet was savage for games but now they have added a block called sonicwall. Cant play any games, can't go on sites related to games, and more importantly we can't get porn. Anything we can do to bypass it? Would mobile broadband be any good for games? Thanks.

Noodleworm

did it not occur to anyone to google "get around sonicwall" ?
if this any help?:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5184264_around-sonicwall-filter.html

ElSeano93

ask john and he'll unblock any website you want pretty much (so long as it's not porno)

AndyOHart

Thanks noodleworm. Jasus whose john I'm 18 why can't I watch porn

AndyOHart

AndyOHart wrote: »

Thanks noodleworm. Jasus whose john I'm 18 why can't I watch porn

It's immoral.

Attol

This isn't the place to discuss the morality of porn.

OP : I would recommend asking the Gateway staff about it.

dregin

Join redbrick and do an SSH tunnel through their servers.

http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/How-To:Port_Forwarding

AndyOHart

I knew joining Red Brick would sort it out ha ha, yeah my friend was reading up about SSH, wonder if I will be able to get the aul PS3 online with it

andrew163

Any redbrick members living there this year? If they're blocking gaming they might be blocking port 22 (SSH) aswell.

Has anyone asked the management company about it? It's possible that the sonicwall is just an attempt to stop certain individuals from eating all the bandwidth themselves with torrents, and some lazy admin put it in Madagascar mode (shut... down.. everything). Online gaming (or browsing websites related to gaming) and things like SSH wouldn't affect bandwidth too much, so it might be just an oversight that they're blocked too.

RyDar

andrew163 you've hit the nail on the head,but they've already got a thttpd server running,they don't actually need a sonicwall to stop people eating up the bandwidth.I'm going in on monday to lodge a complaint 'cos I just can't take this anymore...we shouldn't be treated like bleedin' children!

Creadak

dregin wrote: »

Join redbrick and do an SSH tunnel through their servers.

http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/How-To:Port_Forwarding

RedBrick uses the DCU proxy so he still probably wouldn't be able to do the ould online gaming.

And porn could get redbrick into trouble <.< Do you want that dregin? DO YOU?

fun

andrew163 wrote: »

Any redbrick members living there this year? If they're blocking gaming they might be blocking port 22 (SSH) aswell.

Has anyone asked the management company about it? It's possible that the sonicwall is just an attempt to stop certain individuals from eating all the bandwidth themselves with torrents, and some lazy admin put it in Madagascar mode (shut... down.. everything). Online gaming (or browsing websites related to gaming) and things like SSH wouldn't affect bandwidth too much, so it might be just an oversight that they're blocked too.

SSH is open AFAIK

Creadak wrote: »

RedBrick uses the DCU proxy so he still probably wouldn't be able to do the ould online gaming.

And porn could get redbrick into trouble <.< Do you want that dregin? DO YOU?

DCU's proxy allows gaming in res anyway. Don't see why it wouldn't elsewhere. Also, DCU don't block porn in res, so I highly doubt they're specifically blocking it to RB.

Creadak

I said could

Very important word :P

Cy_Revenant

DCU don't block anything.

If it won't get you arrested it won't get redbrick in trouble.

Probably.

Attol

fun wrote: »

DCU's proxy allows gaming in res anyway. Don't see why it wouldn't elsewhere. Also, DCU don't block porn in res, so I highly doubt they're specifically blocking it to RB.

It doesn't matter if it's blocked or not. Redbrick can't be used for anything that could be deemed vulgar, offensive etc. due to HEAnet's rules.

http://www.heanet.ie/about/aup

It is not permitted to use HEAnet services for any activity which purposely:

creates, hosts or transmits (other than for properly supervised and lawful research purposes) any unlawful, libellous, abusive, vulgar, obscene or indecent images, data or other material, or any data capable of being resolved into obscene or indecent images or material

AndyOHart

I was looking into getting one of them mobile broadband things but I heard mixed things about them. They lads in gateway did say they were looking into removing the restrictions from 11pm-6am.
But that is fair late, they said it was because last year people gaming used up so bandwidth.

So dirt like.

andrew163

Mobile broadband is piss, to put it nicely. Unless you're at the top floor of block A with a view of every cell tower in the city, it probably isn't worth it.

When I lived there (this was under the old management company), the moving out letter we got implied that we may have been allowed to get NTL (now UPC) broadband in, independently of the management company. This was the first hint we'd heard of this all year, but if you really want to be able to game, might be worth looking in to.

The other option is to find someone living on gateway who knows lots about computers and Linux/Unix servers, and ask if they've ever looked into a VPN to a dedicated server/external VM. A few of ye might be able to get together to pay for an endpoint. I'll say no more on that.

If gaming is causing problems for them, they probably don't have a big enough connection in the complex. Really, gaming? God forbid if people ever wanted to use HTTP, the network might catch fire or melt under the strain. It was 10 meg or something when I was there, which was taking the piss really. I heard that they'd upped it with the new management company, they really need something along the lines of 100 megabits for that many apartments nowadays though.

RyDar

I'm in my appartment now and the filter is off at the moment (I discovered this during....uhhh...reasearch)

AndyOHart

Ah the lads fixed it. Playing cod now so happy ouv it. Pretty good speed too!

slasher_65

Seems the filter is back up again after 11PM. Boo Erns!

AndyOHart

We were playing Black Ops last night until like half 3 ha ha. Was perfect

slasher_65

It seems to be blocking sites almost randomly. It's blocking me from doing research on a project or two, thanks to the arbitrary blocking rules.

It's letting me back up to my server at the speed of light though!

public_enemy

Redbrick - helping students get porn since '96