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offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-01 06:31 [#02363533]
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Hello,

My university are complete tight gits with the internet.
They have blocked streaming sites such as BBC iPlayer and
the like citing the tenancy agreement in which it says 'you
pay for an internet service which allows you light browsing
and research'. Now they've done something which means I
can't get on Soulseek. Any of you internet types know how I
can get around this?

Thanks for your help.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-01 06:36 [#02363535]
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This is in my house by the way, university provides the
internet to it and we have no access to the router or modem.


 

offline freqy on 2010-02-01 06:55 [#02363536]
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so your not on uni grounds? and they pay for a connection
to your house!?

write and say you need to p2p with your other uni
colleagues , that your research is suffering , as a result
you are having to use royal mail to send large files and
data. and demand funds for this . You are being forced to
live outside the communication revolution.

with these additional funds sent to you , buy a t3
connection !

serious ting.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-01 07:11 [#02363539]
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It's a university managed house meaning we pay them and they
provide us with a terrible service. At the beginning of the
year I tried to convince everyone to put in for our own
internet but they weren't bothered. Now everything's been
blocked and theres only 4 months left until I finish.


 

offline freqy on 2010-02-01 07:15 [#02363540]
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how about using ubuntu nicotine? thats like soul seek.

its pretty easy to install that might work.

just an idea.


 

offline freqy on 2010-02-01 07:36 [#02363544]
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maybe this type of thing?


 

offline freqy on 2010-02-01 07:37 [#02363545]
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you can enter urls into it and bypass ...so there must be a
way to bypass the p2p restriction. only to help your uni
research of course.


 

offline freqy on 2010-02-01 07:43 [#02363546]
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seedboxseedbox for p2p]

use a seed box to down load from p2p. then when your file is
finished and in the seedbox, download it onto your machine
from there.

some seedboxes are free others cost.



 

offline 4d0lf on 2010-02-01 08:04 [#02363548]
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when I was in some school they had some stupid system that
was blocking sites etc if you were surfing on ip given to
you by dhcp.. you had to configure your connection manually
to browse freely
but probably your problem won't be so primitive


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-01 08:17 [#02363549]
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to be honest about soulseek chat. I miss aphextwin.nu


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-01 08:17 [#02363550]
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to be honest im most bothered...

christ.


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2010-02-01 08:21 [#02363551]
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that sucks,
hope you find a way around it for your last 4 months


 

offline freqy on 2010-02-01 08:30 [#02363552]
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can you connect to the chat via an = irc Internet Relay Chat
client.?


 

offline Descent from the salt of Satan's sweat. (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-01 08:48 [#02363554]
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I don't even have university internet, yet my lovely ISP has
blocked slsk. My internet connection is also as slow as sin.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2010-02-01 08:52 [#02363555]
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your best bet would be to first see if manually setting up
your own dns servers helps (this is done through the
operating system on your computer). i use the public google
dns servers (as well as opendns, but that's slower) but i'm
not sure how fast they are in the uk.

just google instructions on how to manually set your dns
server for your operating system then google for the best
dns server in your area. dnsserverlist is a great resource,
but you have to update your dns servers pretty regularly
because that list is very dynamic.

hope this helps!


 

offline Descent from the salt of Satan's sweat. (United Kingdom) on 2010-02-01 08:57 [#02363556]
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Nice, that does work, last time I tried to switch the DNS it
didn't. Thank you.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2010-02-01 09:02 [#02363558]
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i just realized i wrote dynamic name server server about a
dozen times in that post :/


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2010-02-01 09:07 [#02363560]
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offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2010-02-01 10:16 [#02363573]
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oh no! i treasure our e-sex sessions dearly!


 


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