BF2S Forums We've detected you are using a wireless router...

They shouldn't be able to tell if you have wireless or not from network activity . . . plugged in or wireless, it's usnig the same ip assigned to your computer . . . the only way they could tell if there are wireless networks around would be to walk up and down the hall with a laptop scanning for wireless networks, and figuring out that you had one in your room due to the strength of the signal . . .

Hey now! look at that, two more random karma from un-related posts. I am telling you guys, this is getting freaky.


On point:
So if I clone the MAC adress of my router to be the same as my desktop... Would they still be able to tell that I am behind a router?

Last edited by VicktorVauhn (2008-06-30 23:37:25)

yeah I was thinking about that... but I am really really broke right now. Actually I have an old Ethernet card that I could use to hook up PS3, then bridge those two... but then I would have to always have my computer on to have PS online, and more importantly I don't really have an open PCI slot...

I still don't have official word why it was shut off in the first place, the school tech guy just told me that it may have been they detected I was using a wireless router because wireless routers cannot be connected to the campus network.

He specifically said wireless, but other less official people have told me technically ANY router. Some one from school was saying that if they did it was most likely because part of the MAC adress of the router identifies it as a router (as in linksys uses MAC adresses that start off a certain way, same with other companies)

So I figured I could set my routers MAC adress to be the same as my desktops (the tech guy took a few notes, after looking at my laptop, my desktop and my router's config, so that probably was all the MAC addresses since that is what he was interested in before)
Turn off SSID broadcasting, and keep it encrypted... That way it should appear to just be my desktop in their network logs...

Anyone good at network stuff? This sound right?

IF it didn't work, I figure I could just say I disabled wireless on my router like they said...and tell them their IT guy only told me wireless routers were against the rules....


Ugg this places has too many damn rules, I cant even drink a beer with my front door open...
If it wasn't for the fact that its RIGHT across the street from campus, I get free utilities, internet with download speeds up to 3.5mb/s from external servers and a nice internal network I would be out of here.

Last edited by VicktorVauhn (2008-07-01 00:12:56)

GodFather wrote:

No wireless networks?


Sucks for those hot shit college students with Macbook Airs....

hah.



~On topic

Steal one of your neighbors wireless (if its un-secure)


And thats a bullshit rule.

None are un-secure checked that when I moved in (I though wireless was included TBH)

It is a bullshit rule, but less so then some of the other we have...its a bit rediculous here...

Its actually not a rule from the apartments though its who ever we go through for internet or something like that...Something about our contract only being for one computer per connection/ the "security of routers" blah, blah.... I dunno to be exact but its kinda forced on our the guys who run our apartments so they force it onto us...




That aint to shabby though...

Last edited by VicktorVauhn (2008-07-01 00:44:36)

VicktorVauhn wrote:

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That aint to shabby though...

I think I just shat myself.

N00bkilla55404 wrote:

GodFather wrote:

VicktorVauhn wrote:

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That aint to shabby though...

I think I just shat myself.

ITT: s00p3r internets shared by a hundred frat boys.

Really, its not much better than mid-range DSL for the individual.

depends on what you are doing.

Gaming really isn't amazing... I still get little moments of lag and what not, I think it looses packages or what ever, very occationaly webpages don't load first try...

Downloads fucking fly...like I said the tops I have hit is 3.5mb/s, and usually as long as its a good enough server I download at over 1mb/s (thats external servers)

The most I ever got from my old Verizon fios was like 600-700 kb/s, so at least for this area its way way faster at uploads and downloads... but almost worse at online gaming.