Question concerning College networks.
Posted: 2003-09-02 01:00pm
My friend has recently gone away to college. Being a Starcraft addict, like myself, the first thing he does is set up his computer and log onto battle.net. However, when we tried the do a 1v1, the connection was so laggy that he disconnected. We attempted this several more times, with the same result.
I told him to disable the Windows XP Default Firewall, and after walking him through it he discovered he was unable to (the advanced tab for his Network Connections did not show up). Upon contacting the college tech support, they told him the bad connection was most likely due to the large firewalls they empleoyed. And no, they weren't going to shut them off.
In short, my friend is completely and utterly screwed. Any help in solving this problem would be very appreciated.
Oh, and BTW...he is not allowed to use another ISP, like AOL for fear of letting in viruses. We're thinking that there might be a way around this, any success along this line of though?
I told him to disable the Windows XP Default Firewall, and after walking him through it he discovered he was unable to (the advanced tab for his Network Connections did not show up). Upon contacting the college tech support, they told him the bad connection was most likely due to the large firewalls they empleoyed. And no, they weren't going to shut them off.
In short, my friend is completely and utterly screwed. Any help in solving this problem would be very appreciated.
Oh, and BTW...he is not allowed to use another ISP, like AOL for fear of letting in viruses. We're thinking that there might be a way around this, any success along this line of though?