Played CF at school...
Well, after seeing all the forum threads that promise "it is impossible to play Crossfire at School", I was rather interested. I'm a fairly tech savvy guy, so I set out to test it.
Long story short, I managed it. I copied Crrossfire onto my flash drive at home, (hacked) the local administrator account at school, logged on, then tethered the computer to my DROID (basically using the cell connection instead of the school's connection, to bypass the school's proxy) and voila, whatddya know, it worked
BUT I'm not going to post a guide and I don't recommend anyone does this. Why? Because of this:
NOTE: I get ~40 ping, at home. HUGE (UNPLAYABLE) DIFFERENCE!
Long story short, I managed it. I copied Crrossfire onto my flash drive at home, (hacked) the local administrator account at school, logged on, then tethered the computer to my DROID (basically using the cell connection instead of the school's connection, to bypass the school's proxy) and voila, whatddya know, it worked
BUT I'm not going to post a guide and I don't recommend anyone does this. Why? Because of this:
NOTE: I get ~40 ping, at home. HUGE (UNPLAYABLE) DIFFERENCE!
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Xcelled194 wrote: »Well, after seeing all the forum threads that promise "it is impossible to play Crossfire at School", I was rather interested. I'm a fairly tech savvy guy, so I set out to test it.
Long story short, I managed it. I copied Crrossfire onto my flash drive at home, (hacked) the local administrator account at school, logged on, then tethered the computer to my DROID (basically using the cell connection instead of the school's connection, to bypass the school's proxy) and voila, whatddya know, it worked
BUT I'm not going to post a guide and I don't recommend anyone does this. Why? Because of this:
NOTE: I get ~40 ping, at home. HUGE (UNPLAYABLE) DIFFERENCE!
not much of a difference there..just a couple thousand difference.. -
Cellular connections have high ping. No idea where you pulled the iPad out from, you're the *****est guy on the forums.Should try hacking and iPad and playing.
Respectfully,
PROACEX1
EDIT: k sorry, you're from fU, explains a lot.
Lower latency is one of the advantages of LTE. -
Xcelled194 wrote: »Well, after seeing all the forum threads that promise "it is impossible to play Crossfire at School"[/IMG]
Weird, I have never seen such a thread.
Last year we used a school PC to set-up a CS and an UT LAN server, using the class as a LAN for gaming = win. -
Sir, you should learn at school and shouldn't play computer games there. Otherwise you will work as a taxi driver, a delivery boy or a toilet cleaner. Do you want to be the toilet cleaner?
Maybe you should go to school... you sound EXTREMELY stupid. Especially by listening to your grammar.
Complain about the fact you're Russian? Then go play a different CF Version. -
Liqweedate wrote: »Weird, I have never seen such a thread.
Last year we used a school PC to set-up a CS and an UT LAN server, using the class as a LAN for gaming = win.
KEYWORDS :
LAN (CF isn't a lan game...sadly...be cool though, seeing as that's how the world tournament was done and not having to worry about lag changes everything from what I saw in the replays)
CS (not CF...)
UT (not CF...)
Neither of those games REQUIRE internet to play them, just a client and/or a server hosted locally to connect to...
And I've seen such threads...all the school has to do is outright block all ports via the firewall/gateway excluding the ones used for HTTP/FTP and anything that they might need... -
Charazzard wrote: »this is prolly bull. If You Hack Your Computer at school seconds after u do that Some1 will notice and screw u up. So NIce Try. U prolly played somewhere near where br lives
1) Computers on school networks go down all the time. If he 'hacked' it the way I think he did, he disconnected it from the schools network by UNPLUGGING THE ETHERNET CABLE (thus making it look to the main server that the computer simply 'went offline') and then got into the LOCAL admin that's on the computer itself...(or created his own admin-rights account through other means...)
Nothing would get reported (it couldn't...it's unplugged from the network, remember?), the local computer would not be able to detect that something was wrong, and he could do what he needed to do to get online...
Not to say that his network works like this...not every school system has a central auth-server somewhere downtown at the city district HQ that checks when a computer is online and what it can or can't do....for all I know he goes to a school that just had a weak ass password on a 100% computer that had only access to the internet for web stuff and nothing else...-__-
2) If you read it, he connected using his phone as a wifi connection to the internet....
WIFI SUX on phones, the speeds are too slow...therfore, high ass ping numbers.
I get 300+ when I connect from a Wifi modem, and I live across the border from Canada...I don't live anywhere NEAR BR, so think twice before you spout and spatter stupid text all over other people monitors... -
CookieMunzta wrote: »Not exactly difficult to do.
It depends on the situation...
My old school district didn't allow computers to see other computers on the network because it was designed as a terminal network...nothing was stored locally period, and the computer could do NOTHING unless it connected to the server FIRST.
Not to mention that the password to the system's admin account was only known by the dude's downtown and bios was passworded + boot to CD/USB was disabled...not like you could have windows on a USB stick working if you wanted. -
KEYWORDS :
LAN (CF isn't a lan game...sadly...be cool though, seeing as that's how the world tournament was done and not having to worry about lag changes everything from what I saw in the replays)
CS (not CF...)
UT (not CF...)
Neither of those games REQUIRE internet to play them, just a client and/or a server hosted locally to connect to...
And I've seen such threads...all the school has to do is outright block all ports via the firewall/gateway excluding the ones used for HTTP/FTP and anything that they might need...
Playing good games with friends at school is always better than playing bad ones with randoms. -
GringoLixo wrote: »Maybe you should go to school... you sound EXTREMELY stupid. Especially by listening to your grammar.
Complain about the fact you're Russian? Then go play a different CF Version.
Fck off, b.1.t.c.h. I don't need to answer you and I'm not going to answer you anymore. -
Charazzard wrote: »this is prolly bull. If You Hack Your Computer at school seconds after u do that Some1 will notice and screw u up. So NIce Try. U prolly played somewhere near where br lives
OK, a few points:- The tech staff is totally comprised of idiots (much like you, apparently...)
- I hacked the LOCAL administrator account, the network had nothing to do with it.
- There are over 1,000 computers in my district. No one sits there all day, watching accounts.
- They CAN'T screw me up, not without finding out what computer it is. And, I'll remind you, I was disconnected from the network at the time, so they couldn't figure out which computer I was at.
- "Near where br lives"? Seriously? A) Geography 101: It's called Brazil.
How the hell would I get to Brazil? No one says "Oh, hey, I think I'll take a plane to Brazil and play crossfire!" C)You automatically assume anyone who gets bad ping lives "near where br lives." Sad.
And, for good measure, here is a Speedtest:
In short: stfu and gtfo.CookieMunzta wrote: »Not exactly difficult to do, we used to get 30 ping at school whenever we played the Quake servers, good times.
Not sure what school you went to, but mine locks technology up like its the f***ing middle ages :<1) Computers on school networks go down all the time. If he 'hacked' it the way I think he did, he disconnected it from the schools network by UNPLUGGING THE ETHERNET CABLE (thus making it look to the main server that the computer simply 'went offline') and then got into the LOCAL admin that's on the computer itself...(or created his own admin-rights account through other means...)
Nothing would get reported (it couldn't...it's unplugged from the network, remember?), the local computer would not be able to detect that something was wrong, and he could do what he needed to do to get online...
Not to say that his network works like this...not every school system has a central auth-server somewhere downtown at the city district HQ that checks when a computer is online and what it can or can't do....for all I know he goes to a school that just had a weak ass password on a 100% computer that had only access to the internet for web stuff and nothing else...-__-
2) If you read it, he connected using his phone as a wifi connection to the internet....
WIFI SUX on phones, the speeds are too slow...therfore, high ass ping numbers.
I get 300+ when I connect from a Wifi modem, and I live across the border from Canada...I don't live anywhere NEAR BR, so think twice before you spout and spatter stupid text all over other people monitors...
That's it exactly. I had Crossfire on my USB, I got the Local administrator password using Ophcrack, unplugged the ethernet, logged on, and used my phone to surf the web. -
hell...
my college has a special internet contract with the local internet provider, hundreds and hundreds of laptops and i can still manage to download at 30mbps, wish i could have that5 kind of interwebs in my house :c
downloading at 2mbps right now... i feel so slow...
tallon, mind in giving me your interwebz?
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