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Help getting around college firewall.

Submitted by C23 on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 2:41pm.

Here's my problem. My college blocks any consoles from connecting to any kind of outside server. In fact... our firewall blocks a hell of alot of things that don't need to be blocked, pretty much any online game. On my computer I can get around this most of the time, but I have no idea how to do this with a 360. Is there some way I can configure it to run through a proxy server? I really don't know enough about how consoles work.

It doesn't bother me too much that I can't play online. I'm mostly satisfied with playing the people in my building over the LAN. Problem is, half of Halo 3's achievements have to be done in online play! I can't get the 1,000 points I need for my security helmet w/o Live, and that just will not do.

Currently, the plan is to spend a weekend at a friends house and try to do everything in two days. I was wondering though if anyone had the tech experience to help me out here so that I could play from the comfort of my dorm.

Thanks.

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I know one of my friends did

Submitted by dirtyJ on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 2:29pm.

I know one of my friends did it by using his computer as the proxy, basically bridging the connection via another nic.

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Could you connect your 360

Submitted by Mintz on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 6:26pm.

Could you connect your 360 to your computer (with a crossover cable), Share the connection on your computer, then use the trick on your computer?

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