Anybody know how to change the port FFXI uses?

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

A friend wants to play FFXI at school but they blocked w/e port FFXI uses...so is there a good way around it?

[Demosthenes]

lol no, ask the people up in ny when their isp bloked ffxi ports.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

BUMPAGE

[Izzy]

your sig makes me want to punch the closest person to me in the face with a sharp rock.

[Charitwo]

Chuck Norris is pissed

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[Izzy]

better watch out, i pack a mean roundhouse!

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

Blame wafik

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12780

[Zigma]

lol no, ask the people up in ny when their isp bloked ffxi ports.

The only thing judah ever did right, see if search picks it up.

[Tekki]

Ya no go unless u can convince ur tech ppl at ur ISP to unblock those ports. GL with that and I hope they dont laugh. My school connection wasnt a problem w/ no ports blocked but my home ISP ports are blocked. Their excat words: "We aint unblocking ports for one person"

[Scar]

One option is to pay for SSH shell access (best solution) or find free SSH shell access (speed isn't always ideal for gaming) and forward all your Internet traffic using Dynamic Forwarding by using an SSH client that simulates a SOCKS proxy. This is also known as "HTTP tunneling."

This will work with most connections, but it might not work if his school has a proxy set up for outgoing access, and also depends on how they monitor and control outgoing traffic.

Here's a client/server package that will run on XP. http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/

If you don't want to or don't know how to set something like that up, here's another option.

http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/solutio ... client.asp

He can try it out for free and if it works, he can pay for a subscription for high-speed forwarding for a little under $50/year.

This service is basically the same thing as paying for SSH shell access on your own and running a server/client solution. The difference? You don't have to bother finding a company that provides shell access or worry about setting up a server/client program on your own. This company handles all of those details for you. Using this or a similar service is the way to go if he doesn't mind paying $15-20 more a year for someone else to do the work.

Here's a quick way for him to determine if SSH will work for him. He can go to http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/support/user_guides.asp and watch the 2 videos. One will show him how to determine if he's behind a firewall. If he is, he'll be able to use SSH tunneling. The other will show him how to determine if he's behind a proxy, and if he is, whether he'll be able to use SSH tunneling or not.

[Kriz]

Want a really really really crappy way to play FFXI at a school that makes FFXI play almost impossible?

Get a free AOL dialup account, play for three months, cancel, resubscribe under new name.

Rinse and repeat, I did that from 2004 to when I left in 2006. Of course, this requires a) a free phone line and b) a modem in your PC

Not fun, but I couldn't get SSH tunneling to work well enough for FFXI (due to latency I believe), and I'd like to think my Computer Science degree could have come up with a better solution, but that's what I found

[neighbortaru]

hmm, that's true, if your friend's campus has free phone, then play over dialup

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

Well we got her running sockscap but it wont work with windower, but I have a feeling it might work fine with one of those old windowers you run after starting POL. Anybody have a link to one of those that works?

[solsovly]

hmm, that's true, if your friend's campus has free phone, then play over dialup

His roomate is liable to punch him in the face for tying up the phone for that long.

[LinktheDeme]

http-tunneler thing is decent also theres something called putty.exe but i cant figure out how to work it. Putty.exe is suppose to mask your IP or something along that sort and http-tunneler masks ports to make it think there all HTTP files or something