stupid college network

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James M.
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stupid college network

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I just came back from my summer semester at my college and i am kind of glad to be back on dial-up for one reason...everysite i want to go to works.

When I was on the school network it may have been fast but i couldnt go to certain sites like this one unless i caught the network on a good day. Does anyone know what could have caused that and/or how i could fix it before i go back up?
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depends on how the college's network is set up.. if it's through a proxy, you may have some troubles.. as the site automatically sends a private marked header for all pages.. which may cause a proxy to deny access.. the site may send some headers that the school wants to filter out as well. not too sure without knowing a lot more about the school's systems...
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Post by tim »

schools cheap filters can be spooked and most of the time (from my exp) deny access to good pages and allow bad.

In my opinion, I think schools filtering systems/methods either be gone with, or looked into or upgraded or something.

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Post by James M. »

I see im not the only one that doesnt like the college networks. Its funny though since i can get to this site sometimes, but most of the time I can't get through. Guess when i want to get to this site i will just have to go on dial-up with my own ISP.
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I have an easy solution to your woes. Get a proxy for IE.
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Post by pickle »

It may just have been that the network was busy. Most universities pipe all student traffic through a bottleneck - possibly even one box. Was it just one site that kept doing this or all web pages. Was the page that wasn't working especially big?
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Post by James M. »

I tried proxies already evilmonkey, it didn't work. And I couldn't access two sites (i dont browse much) and they were devnetwork.net adn tutorialized.com.
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