My new desktop got delivered today! I’m pretty damn excited by it. It’s like a new toy.
CoolerMaster SILEO 500 Mid-tower Case
Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Motherboard
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 3GHz Processor
2GB DDR2 800MHz Memory
Western Digital 500GB SATA Drive
DVD-RW Drive
PNY GeForce 9 9500GT 1GB Graphics Card
That’s the best machine I’ve ever owned… I mostly wanted it for gaming, because I really want to be able to play WoW and MMOs in general again, really. Also, awesome games are coming out this and next year, so I figured I could do with getting a machine that can actually run them.
That’s kind of backfired on me a little though; The internet here has so many ports blocked it’s unreal. They apparently really don’t like people playing games and slowing the network down (it’s a shared line for all the few hundred people in the flat, which is a bit dumb), so they’ve banned commonly used ports and just about every other port. Only letting a few obvious ports through.
That means that this expensive machine is essentially useless to me now. All I can do on it is exactly the same as anything I can do on my laptop. I’m going to have to find a way to proxy all these connections, or get a better internet connection.
Virgin Media are apparently doing a few checks for us now to see if they can install a line into the building, and what speeds we’ll get if they can. Even then though, the installation of a whole new cable might take months, and could probably cost me and my flatmates… We don’t really have much money, we’re only students!
Mobile internet is far too slow and way too expensive, so that’s not really possible.
The only other way then is using a proxy. I’m not even sure if that’s possible. If we ignore the technological setting up of a proxy, I’ll still have to suffer the ping times being pretty much doubled. I really don’t know what to do.
Unless I get this fixed, this is a massive waste of money. I’m really regretting it now.
