gaming in uni halls

Meloco said:
I doubt you will find the time to allow for online gaming at uni!
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You will :p

On topic, I had to use a program called HTTP Tunnel to play Eve Online. If you could stretch your budget what about one of the mobile internet packages. Think they are fairly cheap now (£10-15~).
 
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What is this tunneling buisness you speak of? Does it allow you to get past the firewall and do anything? are ports still blocked? and is it easily picked up? :)
 
We had it blocked for the first term of our year in the halls (1st year), they then opened it up the following January and speeds and pings were great :) Too bad that my then current laptop couldn't even cope with the source engine :( So I had to play CS 1.6/cz.
 
At Portsmouth university all ports are blocked. The only game that is working is WoW which is strange. Even ventrilo is blocked! http tunneling is working but you have to pay a premium.
 
At mine the net was awful, but when it did work it wouldn'd let you access the steam ports meaning no updates, where as my mate down the hall could play WoW all day on his, it just depends.
If your with 'Unite' just forget about it. They are A'hole when it comes to anything like that.
 
Wmega said:
At Portsmouth university all ports are blocked. The only game that is working is WoW which is strange. Even ventrilo is blocked! http tunneling is working but you have to pay a premium.
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Which halls were you in? Last year at James Watson none of the ports were blocked. Gaming/downloading was fine. Maybe they've changed it recently, I know there were problems with people downloading too much. I got an e-mail from the university asking me to stop downloading illegally.
 
ChrisJSY said:
Some of us don't like that and prefer gaming?
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I really hope you change your mind mate. I mean what ever floats your boat and all and its not a dig. But uni will proably be one of the funnest times of your life going out with your mates providing your going to a uni with a good night life, hopefuly most of you aimed for cities.

To waste it away playing games that you can play after uni and have probably played for a long time before would be a shame really and you may even start getting really down spending so much time infront of your pc with all that work build up. Going out and unwinding is a good way coping with it all.

Also you might find you dont make so many friends if you spend your time infront of the pc. Uni is all about socializing away from your dorms really, you only go there when you really need to work. So youll spend most your time outside causualy working with people in the library or on the fields etc. Or sitting around in the bar's, talking playing pool etc and at nights investigating the clubs ;) If you arnt joining everyone else in it when it comes to the second year and you have to find people to share a flat with your list of people migth be quiet short.

I dunno, maybe you got your own personal reasons for not wanting to. Just i find a lot of peopple if they are the first sibling to go to uni find it a real shock on what its actually like.

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I just noticed your 24 so likely hood youve already been through uni. Haha nvm :) well either that or your telling porkies on your profile :p
 
xrs said:
Which halls were you in? Last year at James Watson none of the ports were blocked. Gaming/downloading was fine. Maybe they've changed it recently, I know there were problems with people downloading too much. I got an e-mail from the university asking me to stop downloading illegally.
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I'm at the Trafalgar halls. Yes someone told me that last year there wasn't any problems with the games but this year everything is blocked, but somehow they managed to keep WoW ports active. (which is good :D )
 
8igdave said:
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You come across as very naive in the fact that you think everyone is the same.

Believe it or not, this may come as a huge shock to you so sit down, (yes I know I am being patronising) but, I don't like "clubbing" or "going out" at night like that.

When I see my friends, real friends not some odd aquaintance, we do not go out solely to clubs/to get mashed or whatever it is you are insinuating.
I don't drink acohol, I abhor night life where the dredges and low lifes of society meet up with decent people to create this horrible mix.

I don't want to go out and meet more friends, I have enough and it's not about how many I can fit on my facebook list.

If I was actually going to uni (and I still can at my age, I can at an even older age) the last thing on my mind is going out with my friends (or lack of, I'd not know anyone to begin with) at night to get slaughtered every night.
I do prefer to stay in and do, you guessed it, things I like not what you assume I should like.

Why is it that hard for some people to understand we don't all like doing what you do? We are each our own person and like our own things, I know what I like better than you.

You sound like you have no idea what you are talking about and the advice is simply, instead of wasting time gaming, go out and get some night life and waste it there instead?

Uni is about socialising? Thats what I hear from all the people who don't really get that far, uni is for academic purposes first, socialising second.

Don't you have friends outside of uni you can do that with?
 
Wmega said:
I'm at the Trafalgar halls. Yes someone told me that last year there wasn't any problems with the games but this year everything is blocked, but somehow they managed to keep WoW ports active. (which is good :D )
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I've just left James Watson yesterday, all ports where open, nothing was blocked throughout the year.
 
ChrisJSY said:
You come across as very naive in the fact that you think everyone is the same.

Believe it or not, this may come as a huge shock to you so sit down, (yes I know I am being patronising) but, I don't like "clubbing" or "going out" at night like that.

When I see my friends, real friends not some odd aquaintance, we do not go out solely to clubs/to get mashed or whatever it is you are insinuating.
I don't drink acohol, I abhor night life where the dredges and low lifes of society meet up with decent people to create this horrible mix.

I don't want to go out and meet more friends, I have enough and it's not about how many I can fit on my facebook list.

If I was actually going to uni (and I still can at my age, I can at an even older age) the last thing on my mind is going out with my friends (or lack of, I'd not know anyone to begin with) at night to get slaughtered every night.
I do prefer to stay in and do, you guessed it, things I like not what you assume I should like.

Why is it that hard for some people to understand we don't all like doing what you do? We are each our own person and like our own things, I know what I like better than you.

You sound like you have no idea what you are talking about and the advice is simply, instead of wasting time gaming, go out and get some night life and waste it there instead?

Uni is about socialising? Thats what I hear from all the people who don't really get that far, uni is for academic purposes first, socialising second.

Don't you have friends outside of uni you can do that with?
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spoken clearly by someone whos never been to Uni.

Only the complete sad acts stay in all the time. Everyone joins in in first year and its a great laugh. I have friends now getting firsts in final year engineering degrees that still manage to go out regularly. I don't go out more than once a week as Im much worse at managing my time (finalist E+E eng degree).

Uni is life experience 1st, degree second for me, ill still be getting a 2:1 this summer though.

Before I got here I had very much the opinion that you do, but it changes very quickly.

gaming was unblocked and not against any rules and reg's in the hall i stayed in.
 
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At Surrey gaming didn't work so well as when you browsed games the network thought you were some threat (apparently) and disconnected you. Took 5 hours to get internet back :(
 
ChrisJSY said:
You come across as very naive in the fact that you think everyone is the same.

Believe it or not, this may come as a huge shock to you so sit down, (yes I know I am being patronising) but, I don't like "clubbing" or "going out" at night like that.

When I see my friends, real friends not some odd aquaintance, we do not go out solely to clubs/to get mashed or whatever it is you are insinuating.
I don't drink acohol, I abhor night life where the dredges and low lifes of society meet up with decent people to create this horrible mix.

I don't want to go out and meet more friends, I have enough and it's not about how many I can fit on my facebook list.

If I was actually going to uni (and I still can at my age, I can at an even older age) the last thing on my mind is going out with my friends (or lack of, I'd not know anyone to begin with) at night to get slaughtered every night.
I do prefer to stay in and do, you guessed it, things I like not what you assume I should like.

Why is it that hard for some people to understand we don't all like doing what you do? We are each our own person and like our own things, I know what I like better than you.

You sound like you have no idea what you are talking about and the advice is simply, instead of wasting time gaming, go out and get some night life and waste it there instead?

Uni is about socialising? Thats what I hear from all the people who don't really get that far, uni is for academic purposes first, socialising second.

Don't you have friends outside of uni you can do that with?
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Sounds very exciting
 
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