Sharing internet over college LAN

[Leetsauce]

Hello everyone,

Here is my situation:

I live in a dorm that is lucky to get 4mbps down even though I'm connected to 1gbps lan.

I have a computer on the same 1gbps local network at an office that gets far superior download speeds.

Office internet:

Dorm internet:

Is there anyway to "pipe" this connection over the LAN to my dorm?

I've been able to ping the office computer from my dorm, so I know it can see it.

Also, I made a VPN with windows 7 on it, but even though I try to connect with the computer name it still tries to connect with the 4mbps internet instead of the 1gbps lan. The bandwidth is there on the lan side to support a faster connection, but it keeps falling back to the internet even when a local computer is used for a VPN.

Does anyone have a solution for my problem?

To sum it up:

Pipe internet from one computer over lan to another computer.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Leetsauce

 

[Mu33rto]

It could be that a switch is limiting the bandwidth on you're dorn's subnet & for the office it's uncapped. I know for sure you can rdp into the office pc and be able to control everything on that system even the internet....Even better would be setup a virtual machine on the office PC and rdp into it that way you don't log off anyone currently log into that system.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html

It might not be what youre looking for but its a start.

Forgot all about proxy servers... http://www.linquist.net/geek/proxy

 

[x Heavy]

In College there should be a unmarked door. Behind that and another door should be a server rack. Top of that rack should have a thin orange cable. That is the raw fiber from your campus to the world.

Find that and you are in.

With that in mind, find a wireless tower in your area and hook into that. By pass your dorm all together.

 

[thesnappyfingers]

Now i am intrigue, x Heavy how would you "hook" into a wireless tower.

 

[hang-the-9]

You can't get any faster connection than what you are at, because anything you try to connect to will go through that same connection. It's like strapping a Porche to a Honda, the Honda is not going to drive any faster.

 

[Leetsauce]

You can't get any faster connection than what you are at, because anything you try to connect to will go through that same connection. It's like strapping a Porche to a Honda, the Honda is not going to drive any faster.

Well but you see, the 1gbps lan is there, so if I could route the VPN or proxy connection over the lan INSTEAD of the internet, then I would have a 1gbps connection to this computer, instead of the lame 4mbps that I have through the internet. The bandwidth is there, it's just over the local network, not the internet.

 

[hang-the-9]

Are you saying this office is in the same building as your room? If you want to connect to that office, run a cable from your room to a jack in the office. Or setup a WiFi card on one of the computers there, share out the internet off that, and connect to that PC from your room. It's a bit odd that you can get faster speeds in one area than you can on another unelss they are setup to go through different connections.

 

[Leetsauce]

Are you saying this office is in the same building as your room? If you want to connect to that office, run a cable from your room to a jack in the office. Or setup a WiFi card on one of the computers there, share out the internet off that, and connect to that PC from your room. It's a bit odd that you can get faster speeds in one area than you can on another unelss they are setup to go through different connections.

They're in different buildings a quarter of a mile from each other, but they're both on the same college lan network. I get pings of 1ms from the machine and I can view its folders on my desktop when I share them. I just need to figure out how to pipe the internet over the lan to my desktop.

 

[Leetsauce]

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[Dark Lord of Tech]

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