- Feb 16, 2013
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I live in an apartment complex right now that has been undergoing network issues. They've been working on them for about 6 months now, and it has improved. However, the person working on the network seems to be missing key points when it comes to opening the router for any sort of Xbox connectivity or even some PC gaming connectivity and local networking. Based on the error codes I've been getting, he's simply not opening the right ports in some vain attempt to keep the entire network "secured" instead of leaving that to the end user.
Anyway, I'm honestly getting annoyed with waiting and having to leave the apartment to do anything too aggressive with the internet (even tried to LAN with a friend here the other night and, sitting across the table from each other, pulled pings in the 900's, making it obviously impossible to play. We've had success here before, but that was months ago during one halfway decent network iteration they had for a while but pulled recently). So my question is, is it possible for me to manually jump through those ports myself without disrupting the network? (stepping outside the prison by climbing over the wire instead of cutting it, in other words) I do have a Netgear wireless router sitting here from a setup in my last apartment, so my thought was to maybe setup a wireless access point and see if I can somehow forward myself outside of his security features. I haven't done networking in quite a while, so I'm honestly not sure if it's even possible.
Like I said, I do not wish to disrupt his work, but I would also like to actually use the internet to the full extent in this apartment rather than continue to wait, since he seems to be changing less and less now, claiming things are as they should be (which is impossible, since every item that doesn't work here functions perfectly on every other network I've tried them on, including networks in restaurants and such). So is something like this possible without causing him trouble?
Anyway, I'm honestly getting annoyed with waiting and having to leave the apartment to do anything too aggressive with the internet (even tried to LAN with a friend here the other night and, sitting across the table from each other, pulled pings in the 900's, making it obviously impossible to play. We've had success here before, but that was months ago during one halfway decent network iteration they had for a while but pulled recently). So my question is, is it possible for me to manually jump through those ports myself without disrupting the network? (stepping outside the prison by climbing over the wire instead of cutting it, in other words) I do have a Netgear wireless router sitting here from a setup in my last apartment, so my thought was to maybe setup a wireless access point and see if I can somehow forward myself outside of his security features. I haven't done networking in quite a while, so I'm honestly not sure if it's even possible.
Like I said, I do not wish to disrupt his work, but I would also like to actually use the internet to the full extent in this apartment rather than continue to wait, since he seems to be changing less and less now, claiming things are as they should be (which is impossible, since every item that doesn't work here functions perfectly on every other network I've tried them on, including networks in restaurants and such). So is something like this possible without causing him trouble?
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