Help with VPN or alternatives

Hi all, i know next to nothing about networking and i was wondering if any of you guys could help me!

Basically within the last few weeks, i have moved into university acommodation. The internet provided is fast, however i am unable to play the multiplayer option on all of my games! (catastrophe i know lol).

So i was wondering if there was a way to get the connectivity of my home broadband package in my university accomodation? Is this one of the uses of a VPN?

I am using a Dell XPS M1530, and the router at my home is the "classic" netgear DG834G. The internet service provided at my university is over an ethernet connection, and is using a HTTP proxy server.

If you want to know any more information i will be happy to provide it, any interest in my problem will be much appreciated!

 

yes, have a look to UltraVNC.
However, if you have no access/expierence of configuration of the router, then might be use some other application like
teamviewer.com

But I guess that the up-load bandwidth will be too low.

 

No it's not.

A VPN will allow you to connect to another machine at home, but it sounds like you are proposing setting up a remote desktop connection to another machine and then running the game on that machine?

You simply cannot move the data across a vpn that quickly for a game.

The question you need to answer is what games. There may be workarounds to your predictament, but you're not going to do it doing what your thinking.

 

got lag?

 

What i am asking is, is there a way to connect to my router at home, and utilise its internet connection for my gaming needs?

It will mainly be Call of duty 4... any ideas?

Yeah realise this may affect pings... haha

 

That won't work either.

Technically, if you had a technically capable router athome and your school would set you up on their end, you could set up one router to connect to another, and then that router connects you to the internet, but you are still going through your school router.

Backing up. You never connect directly to a game server...if your school were completely open, you connect to its network,and its router, which connects to another router, and another router, until eventually your connection reaches your intended target.

All you would be doing here is adding one more hop to the path, so no, that does not work--you are still going through your school's router.

About the only thing that might work is if you set up a server at home and connect to it using an ssh tunnel--the server then routes your traffic.

You're getting outside my realm of expertise, but that might work. Google ssh tunnel gaming.

It seems odd your university is blocking call of duty. If all they are doing is using an http proxy server, that should not be causing you an issue

 

well, my cousin had this problem....
He got a router,a nd plugged it into his ethernet plug, and it worked

 

Does anyone know if this would work? I have the D834G at home or i could easily buy a cheap router to set this up?

What i have made out so far is that my univiersity is blocking the port that call of duty 4 uses. So would using a router help at all?

Any help or other ideas greatly appreciated!

 

No, it would not help--you're just adding another router to the process--the data still needs to travel through your university router.

Have you called tech support at your university--there's no reason they should be blocking that port unless they have a problem with CoD

 

Yeah i dropped them an email when i first discovered i couldnt play the games online.

I got this response:

Hello Robin,

I am sorry to say but the network is blocking online games.

Kind regards,

Eric van der Ploeg

So, is there any way around this? As i stated before from what i can gather thy are port blocking.

Does anyone know a way to change the ports call of duty 4 uses? to say ports that another unblocked program would use?

 

the ports used are programatically set, so no.

Your only hope is the SSH tunnel I suggested earlier,but you would need a server on the other side to redirect your game--even that may not work.

What kind of draconian school are you going to?

 

an SSH tunnel may work but your going to need to find a way to get cod4 to proxy through it. best bet would be to set up a real vpn(sigh) to get all traffic to go through it, may up your pings a lot though

 

Thanks for your replies everyone, i think im just going to knock this one in the head, seems more trouble than its worth...

Guess ill just have to make the most of my internet when im at home at the weekends!

 

Update for anyone who is interested, I have now succeeded in gettin CoD4 online working!

I am using a program called Hamachi (common with pirates i believe) to creat a virtual network on my system, which then in-turn connects to other computers and sets us all up on the same network.

This tricks the game (and my computer, i think?) into thinkingg we are all on a LAN network, and so we can connect and play against each other.

Not too sure how this works, but it does work and that is the main thing for just now!

So i can probably expect to see poorer grades as i will have "more important" things to do now....

 

Congrats!

Yes, that is basically setting up a VPN...and here is where I show my gaming ignorence. COD4 allows you to connect to each other and set up a game server?

In my ignorence, I thought there was a central server (like Battlenet or Wow) that you needed to connect to. I completely didn't understand how your game works and I thought you were looking to relay a game signal from your machine to another to a central game server.

Anyway, I am glad you got it set up...

 

Well... it does and doesnt.

Usually to find a game, it connects to its master server, gives you a list of running game servers and allows you to connect to one of them.

However there is a console in cod4, which allows you to connect to any ip address providing it is running a game server, so if you had already knew a servers ip address i dont think you would need to connect to the master server to connect to the game server (using the console method). Not entirely sure about this though...