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Awesomniac

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See you in the holidays
« on: 24 September 2005, 05:32:14 pm »
Hey all. You've probably noticed nobody is dying as much as usual recently and wondering why - the reason is I haven't been around. I recently went off to Kent Uni and it turns out the network has a firewall that blocks CoH (and every other online game I have).

So I unsubscribed. But I imagine I'll be back during holidays when I'm at home. Let me know if you have any ideas on getting around the firewall though.

See you around, guys!
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judgejoolz

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #1 on: 24 September 2005, 05:50:51 pm »
Awe mate, haven't you seen the movie "The Firm"?  Nobody leaves the Firm, in the same way that nobody leaves the supergroup...or CoH for that matter  ::)

So as I see it you have two choices.  First, you travel back home daily, or to a place that allows unlimited internet access...daily.  Alternatively (and dare I say, perhaps shortening your lifespan a tad) you continue to stay at Kent Uni, whinge about girly firewalls, whilst we (the SG) arrange for you and "the boys" to meet in a dark alley  :P

Seriously though, would certainly recommend the first course of action  ;D

I'll have a word with my mate, who's a bit of a firewall geek.  Lets hope someone can fix / break / even steal the firewall in Kent Uni to allow THE Awesomniac his rightful chance to compete again  ;)
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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #2 on: 24 September 2005, 10:11:07 pm »
Does this mean Skarlet has to start dying again?

Hmmm, how can I beef up my firewall...?
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Naaman

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #3 on: 25 September 2005, 11:25:14 am »
So which campus you on Awe? There's a fair to middling chance you're close to one of two SG members ;)
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Awesomniac

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #4 on: 26 September 2005, 08:10:58 am »
Quote from: Naaman on 25 September 2005, 11:25:14 am
So which campus you on Awe? There's a fair to middling chance you're close to one of two SG members ;)

Cantebury campus.
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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #5 on: 26 September 2005, 08:37:15 am »
That's reasonably near Joolz then :D Have to arrange an evening and find some of the backwater pubs that the place is littered with
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...A Brute says, "Stay here while I let them kill me so I can kill them faster!"
...A Scrapper says, "Stay here while I.....ya know what, screw it---CHARGE!11!!1!!11!!1!!

Awesomniac

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #6 on: 15 October 2005, 01:25:28 pm »
Quote from: judgejoolz on 24 September 2005, 05:50:51 pm
I'll have a word with my mate, who's a bit of a firewall geek.  Lets hope someone can fix / break / even steal the firewall in Kent Uni to allow THE Awesomniac his rightful chance to compete again  ;)

Any update on that?

I miss my online gaming. :P
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Naaman

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #7 on: 15 October 2005, 07:25:41 pm »
Hey ZM - would something like Proxy Tunnel work for this?
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...A Brute says, "Stay here while I let them kill me so I can kill them faster!"
...A Scrapper says, "Stay here while I.....ya know what, screw it---CHARGE!11!!1!!11!!1!!

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #8 on: 15 October 2005, 07:37:46 pm »
If there's web browsing working, it might do.... Would need to suss out a config for the game(s) concerned and what the proxy is.... Worth looking into.....
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Awesomniac

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #9 on: 16 October 2005, 12:07:20 pm »
Sounds interesting...my msn is
ku -tod- oc -tod- liamtoh -ta- nosnigwad
backwards. (That should stop the spam bots)
I have no idea what I'm doing with proxy tunnelling so if you could tell me about it that'd be good.
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Naaman

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #10 on: 16 October 2005, 07:41:11 pm »
Proxy tunneling (from my limited understanding of it) means all your web traffic gets routed through another server (proxy) that is regarded as "safe" by your firewall, at that point as far as anything on the other end is concerned everthing comes from that.

 Depending what part of the traffic from CoH is being blocked by the Firewall it may or may not work for the game :)

I'll foward you and Joolz  copy of the program, he can show it to his Guru and you can have a poke as well. Doing a quick Google produces these pages which are all handy

 This is where you want to point it to for the Updater software cohupdate.coh.com, I don't know where it goes after that though :(. If it's just the updater that's causing issues then
Quote from: Quantum_Trntino
To bypass the updater, build a shortcut to the COH exe file, and add this to its Target

-project "coh"
and you'll have to beg a decent connection when it's patched.

Edited to add.....
 Couldn't send you the proggie - Gmail seems to hate exe files. I've asked ZM nicely if he could host it here for a bit and PM you both a link to download :)
« Last Edit: 17 October 2005, 06:35:03 pm by Naaman »
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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #11 on: 18 October 2005, 06:48:32 pm »
Quote from: Naaman on 16 October 2005, 07:41:11 pm
Edited to add.....
 Couldn't send you the proggie - Gmail seems to hate exe files. I've asked ZM nicely if he could host it here for a bit and PM you both a link to download :)
Yeah came across the dreaded gmail exe hatred before at work.....

Done.... Hosted and PM'd..... OOOOooooooo.... just noticed I'm using over 400MB space of the package hosting the forlorn-hope (and some of my own) stuff, and total nearly 36 GB of traffic this year so far..... Announcing the mirror of the "thank you" vid on the CoH boards does that you know....
« Last Edit: 18 October 2005, 07:01:15 pm by Zombieman »
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Awesomniac

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #12 on: 18 October 2005, 08:34:09 pm »
Got the proggy, now have no idea what I'm doing...

Running the program needs a proxy and port to connect to, and the thing that confuses me: a destination proxy and port. What the heck is that?
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Naaman

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #13 on: 18 October 2005, 10:17:29 pm »
Destination proxy = The computer that pretends to be you. try a search like this http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Free+proxy+lists%22 to find some sites

Port = Their open port, normally 80 or 8080. Does depend what's being blocked.

Does it update OK or does it cack out whwn you try to play?

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When eyeing a large and dangerous mob...
...A Tanker says, "Stay here while I distract them with my rock hard (granite) body."
...A Brute says, "Stay here while I let them kill me so I can kill them faster!"
...A Scrapper says, "Stay here while I.....ya know what, screw it---CHARGE!11!!1!!11!!1!!

Awesomniac

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Re: See you in the holidays
« Reply #14 on: 19 October 2005, 12:00:43 am »
So basically I need to enter two proxies? One to connect to and one for the destination?
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