Hey tek dudes,
As some of you know ive moved to Brunel Uni for a years course. I live in halls of residence and have the free internet Unis give. Great you may think!
Well no, its not so great. The restrictions are annoying to say the least.
My main problem is no smpt and no Mozilla Thunderbird as it is blocked. I have asked why and was told its a big no no for security reasons. Now I have numerous email accounts to check/save via Thunderbird, so loosing it is going to be a issue. Anyone got any ideas how to get around it? perhaps a proxy?
ERU
open up a gmail account and get gmail to retrieve/send on your other accounts?
Go to McDonalds
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Could become expensive :P
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Could become expensive :P
Work n surf :mrgreen:
You should have gone to specsa..no...the University of Reading. They have THE best Internet policy Ive ever come across...you get a public IP with only a few ports blocked (torrents and P2P)...no transparent proxying, no 30 page you can and cant do this bollocks just a simple document saying they expect you to be responsible and everything is pretty much at their discretion.
If you're a bit of a geek and want to run NAT behind your public IP and have a load of VPN tunnels out, or host game servers (as long as its not for profit) then that's fine.
They don't come out with any of this blanket 'it's a security risk' bollocks. They have excellent managed switches that'll automatically cut a machine off if it's found to be unpatched or transmitting too much data etc.
Big thumbs up to them, I say !
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Could become expensive :P
Work n surf :mrgreen:
You have no idea how hard this course is! work?
There are x3 sports/social clubs I want to join but have effectively been told today that there is no chance im going to have time for any :? I cant even miss a few lectures to morrow for the 2nd round of rugby trials.
Quote from: ERUI cant even miss a few lectures to morrow for the 2nd round of rugby trials.
why not? its hardly as if somthing you learn this early, will be tested so later on
If I miss one lecture I have to go tell the course manager why. I even get an email. Sux.
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Christ!! Things have changed since I was at uni. Me and a mate managed to pass the entire radio comedy module of our FTVRS course by going to only the first lecture (out of six) and no seminars (out of six) - just did the essay at the end and handed it in. Got a good grade too lol!!
university internet ftl!
VPN/FTP out to a p2p box at home ftw!
at least port 80 will always be my friend!
Seems my online banking is blocked too! Now this is getting serious!
FTP is also blocked apparently. VPN?
can you not change the ports for the e-mail? i know i can change my POP3 and SMTP ports even with my virtual hosting.
There probably wont be a simple workaround. Your uni will be running the same policy as all universities on the education backbone and theyve got very good at blocking what they dont want you to access.
Thats just how it is unfortunately. You can configure some mail clients to pull mail through http (outlook web access etc) but if they want to stop you accessing these things they can.
The argument is - the free internet access is so you can access course module pages and the intranets. Its not a full internet connection like you wowuld get at home.