Xbox Live at School

[yanney]

not sure if i posted this last year, but heres the dealio. My schools network IT has blocked the ports for xbox live for some reason (even though i talked to him and he said he was unblocking them, but that was last year and still nothing)

is there any way to somehow get around this? i can play through my phones internet (tether phone to laptop, hook xbox up to laptop) but i only have 200mb a month and xbox uses 15mb an hour.

any suggestions?

[Jason]

Get a cheap router and forward the ports yourself?

[yanney]

you mean plug a new router into the ethernet port that they give me on the wall?

[Jason]

you mean plug a new router into the ethernet port that they give me on the wall?

Yes that's what I did. I am in a triple dorm, so the room only has 3 ethernet ports (one per student) So, in order to not have to unplug shit to use my laptop etc, I plugged in a router instead. Do they make you register your devices the first time you use them on the network? Because they do it by MAC address at my school. So, now that my router's MAC is registered, i don't have to do anything extra for any device connected such as my 360, laptops, phones, etc.

Hope this helps...

[mdc4115]

Yes that's what I did. I am in a triple dorm, so the room only has 3 ethernet ports (one per student) So, in order to not have to unplug shit to use my laptop etc, I plugged in a router instead. Do they make you register your devices the first time you use them on the network? Because they do it by MAC address at my school. So, now that my router's MAC is registered, i don't have to do anything extra for any device connected such as my 360, laptops, phones, etc.

Hope this helps...

Thats what you call NAT, Network Address Translation. Since they make you register a mac address all you have to do is register the router and you shouldn't have to register anything else.

[yanney]

i dont have to register anything. ill take an old router from home this weekend and try it out.

[Jason]

i dont have to register anything. ill take an old router from home this weekend and try it out.

Let us know if it works!

[yanney]

will do. i hope it does, i need xbl back in my life

now that i think about it, im pretty sure my friend does this at his campus.

is there any negatives to this? will the campus know that im doing this?
i plan on making the wifi WPA secure and everything

[Jason]

Does your school even have any rules against using a router? Or using xbl? It would be ridiculous for them to disallow routers. For the use of laptops alone would make it worth it.

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[yanney]

well we have campus wide wifi so idk their rules on routers. im sure they wont find out anyway.
as far as i know, they have no rules against xbox live, just that they have the ports blocked.

[Jason]

well we have campus wide wifi so idk their rules on routers. im sure they wont find out anyway.
as far as i know, they have no rules against xbox live, just that they have the ports blocked.

So, no one you know uses XBL?

Sounds like you should be selling the password to your router when you set it up.

[yanney]

i know people that use it, but only the way i used to do it with my phone.

ill ask around and see if people wanna pay haha

[yanney]

k, got everything set up. Linksys router is showing an internet connect, but when i try to join it i dont get internet access.

i run a diagnostics and it shows "windows cant communicate with this device or resource (primary DNS server)"

anyone have any idea on how to go about fixing this?

[yanney]

bump

[mdc4115]

more details. screen caps might help.