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    Please help me with a weird question!

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mbridges, Jul 25, 2007.

  1. mbridges

    mbridges Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know this question doesn't even fit here, but I couldn't think of any place. I have a dv6500t and I travel a lot on work, mostly to Europe and the Far East. My question is, is there a way I can, say, connect to my home internet connection (Comcast) and surf? The only reason for this is that many sites such as US radio and tv stations say I'm outside the US and can't connect. I was wondering if I could somehow make use of my idle comcast internet when I'm away. Thanks everyone!
     
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    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Nope, your internet only works at your home, with a wireless router, you can be anywhere outside and still get internet.

    You may want to invest in satellite internet of some sort.
     
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    you could look into proxies. They might help
     
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    well i have internet when in europe or asia no problem, at the hotel or at work, but i cant seem to connect to some US sites and services, they say it has detected i'm outside the US and won't let me access things. i know people use proxies and all that, but i thought since my comcast connection at home was sitting idle, maybe i could use that as a proxy. i dont even know if that makes any sense.
     
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    kekinash Notebook Guru

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    You can configure a proxy server in your home. it's no an easy task, but is possible, then you conect to your proxy server from anywhere in the world and navigate throught your local conection, be seeing as US local conection by US providers...
     
    kekinash, Jul 25, 2007
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    kekinash thats exactly something i was thinking of. thanks but i'm not sure if thats doable. do you have any idea? or links? i'm googling it right now
     
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    Well you need a computer to use as a proxy, maybe using linux, there's some distros build specially as server proxy, try distrowatch.com, and http://www.squid-cache.org/.
     
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    mbridges, Jul 25, 2007
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