I feel so clever... but I'm not

[madmanjock]

I'm currently enjoying bit-torrent, online gaming and pr0n all from the comfort of my halls without any fear of getting done.

How dare you ask? Well I guess I took a rather physical way around the university firewall.

56K dial up modem baby! I got myself a cheapie USB modem from ebay, got a ResTel account and added the long series of numbers ( *72* + pac number hash 9 ) to the start of a free pay per min local call ISP (example I'm using is 0845 123 2000, username "free" password "internet").

It works

[munchingfoo]

Porn and bit-torrent can both be done within ResNet "without fear of getting done". As for on,line gaming, is it really worth it for 56k?

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[madmanjock]

I've tried all the tricks and bit torrent wasn't doing it for me, as for online gaming actually a bit of CS and WoW work fine on narrowband connections.

[orudge]

Quoting madmanjock from 01:02, 28th Nov 2006
56K dial up modem baby! I got myself a cheapie USB modem from ebay, got a ResTel account and added the long series of numbers ( *72* + pac number hash 9 ) to the start of a free pay per min local call ISP (example I'm using is 0845 123 2000, username "free" password "internet").

From the ResTel help page, though:

"ResTel is not an Internet Service Provider. Please contact the IT-Services Helpdesk on ext. 3333. Further information about internet connections is also available on the IT-Services web pages. (Students are NOT to connect LapTops or PC's to the telephone network. Those found doing so are liable to have their telephone service removed)."

(http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/services/telephone/restel/restelhelp.shtml)

So either way, you're breaking a rule it seems.

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[TheGamesMaster]

Use an iMac or get a non-student friend to connect your laptop/pc. QED.

[Fawksie]

They don't like people using dialup on Resnet because it ties up their outgoing lines. I gather MD110 hardware is expensive. I'm sure a while ago they claimed somewhere on the website that it cost them somewhere in the region of £1000 to provision for each new voice extension, because of the price of line cards.

[Fawksie]

Quoting TheGamesMaster from 22:37, 1st Dec 2006
Use an iMac or get a non-student friend to connect your laptop/pc. QED.

What on earth does that achieve? And where does QED fit into the logic of your post?

[Malcolm]

Do you get full 56k speeds out of ResTel then?

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[Fawksie]

Quoting Malcolm from 14:00, 2nd Dec 2006
Do you get full 56k speeds out of ResTel then?

Got to be something close to it, assuming they have fibre to Argyle Street exchange.

[Lee.Cairns]

Quantum Electro Dynamics?

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[Steveo]

A good friend of mine once moaned to me that "Telephone engineers are the only people who can run out of bloody numbers".

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

[TheGamesMaster]

"...(Students are NOT to connect LapTops or PC's to the telephone network. Those found doing so are liable to have their telephone service removed)."

ResTel specify LapTops or PC's thus I suggested an iMac which is neither. They also specify Students are NOT to connect LapTops or PC's thus get a non-student to connect them.

QED as both problems solved.

Yes it should be Q.E.D. as in "quod erat demonstrandum" see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D.

[Eagon]

Since when has an iMac not been a personal computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
QED

[Fawksie]

Quoting TheGamesMaster from 20:35, 3rd Dec 2006
They also specify Students are NOT to connect LapTops or PC's thus get a non-student to connect them.

Haha, I see what you mean. I know what QED means, I just didn't understand how it made any sense in the previous context.

[TheGamesMaster]

From Wikipedia:

PC usually means IBM PC compatible.

I was going by that definition. My 2nd point about non-students is still valid. Though that does raise the question of whether a student could connect a server (which wouldn't normally be thought of as a PC) to ResTel.

[Eagon]

Quoting TheGamesMaster from 20:03, 4th Dec 2006
From Wikipedia:

PC usually means IBM PC compatible.

I was going by that definition. My 2nd point about non-students is still valid. Though that does raise the question of whether a student could connect a server (which wouldn't normally be thought of as a PC) to ResTel.

Seems awfully convenient that line you quoted from wikipedia was only added in this afternoon.

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[TheGamesMaster]

ROFLMAO

Yep very. Nothing to do with me though as I was busy at work.

EDIT: Looking at the history it looks like the article has been getting updated a lot in the last week even before this thread.

[orudge]

Quoting TheGamesMaster from 20:03, 4th Dec 2006
I was going by that definition. My 2nd point about non-students is still valid. Though that does raise the question of whether a student could connect a server (which wouldn't normally be thought of as a PC) to ResTel.

Would a server not be considered a PC? It may not be "personal", but I'd still consider it a PC based upon your definition.

Either way, I imagine if you tie up restel's phone lines 24 hours a day and they notice, they may not like you.

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[Queeg]

I thought we told you to stop trolling here TGM. I don't believe the "busy at work" bit either!

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[madmanjock]

Just so everyone knows, ResTel doesn't like it when you use their service with a modem. My external calls have been barred

I've deleted my first post so no one else tries it.