just wondering when approx we will be able to play online games an if the mac address will also work for ps2 online gaming?

We have so far added Steam, Half-Life, battle.net, and iTunes. We're working on other things as well. MACs provided for PS2 should work eventually.

sweet ty, will DNAS an Arena.net be added?

Yeah I e-mailed my ps2 MAC address about a week and a half ago, but not through my buffstate e-mail address. Is that the reason for it taking this long? I mean, I'm in no rush and I'm not complaining, but is using gmail to send the address the reason for me not being able to play madden yet? It always has to retry the DNAS.

i dont think he has ps2 online and most of the other online games fixed yet

Yeah. I sent my MAC address in for my PS2 also. I haven't got a reply yet but I'm patient now that I figured out what I had to do. Anyone else play Madden Online?

I got your MAC - I can't reply to each one since there are quite a few. I figure we'll be able to figure this all out within a couple weeks from now.

OK good, how will I know when my ps2 has online access. Should I just try it every so often?

Yep.

Hey its been like 3 weeks I was just wondering if playstation should be online yet. I just tried it and it didn't work but it frequently wouldn't work anyway. So I was wondering if I should technically be able to get online.

We haven't changed anything yet. Some PC games work now but we haven't gotten to PS2 and Xbox stuff yet.

You should be studying anyway right

right hence I haven't checked in several weeks. just wondering. no rush.

Yeah, sorry it's taking this long. We are a little understaffed over here.

*cough* i need a job *cough*
i work full time as it is in the mornings...

I'd be happy to help, as I am in dire need of employment.

Same Here.

Also underfunded, should have mentioned that. They may be looking for work-study/student assistants in Computing Services though.

ne1 able to play WoW (world of warcraft) thought he added battle net but just checkin be4 i buy it

I can play WoW... Warsong server with darn good ping.

:waycool:

do you know if we will be able to play games on yahoo like yahoo pool or anything like that sometime soon?

Was wondering the same thing.

i'm not really worried about the gaming stuff anymore...but im curious...how is it possible that u can get battle.net to work but not the other games.

Do you mean Steam? That works as well. The only things that I can't connect to are Battle for Middle Earth (EA game) and my PS2 but that will hopefully be remedied within the next week or so.

i just play 2 games, pokerstars and this game called infantry which is made by sony(neither will connect). i use my phone line to play them whenever i have the time to play a game or 2. but this is my 4th year and its always been like this for those games.

but i'm really not that worried about it. i dont want the network people to stress over it. this network is kinda weird compared to other college networks.

Weird. Pokerstars always works for me. It is the only one that will.

We just met about this stuff and are making some progress. We're going to work on PS2 and Xbox next. I don't know why Yahoo! games don't work. PC gaming is tricky because the games use such large port ranges so it's hard to set up rules for them without the filesharing traffic using up all that bandwidth.

got any timeframes on that xb stuff?
im going through withdrawl for halo2 on xb live...

john, i think theres away that u can play people on campus who play halo2, theres some dudes on my floor that do it

do tell my man...
aim me
ThisIsJoho

A bit off topic, but I was wondering why sites like pogo don't work here in the dorms...is it something wrong with my computer, or is that site just blocked?

its called a packet shaper.
its the end of most fun on the internet for the time being,
they're trying to configure it right.
for pogo though, im not sure what they will do,
email your mac to Res IT,
he'll tell you what to do from there

Never heard of pogo but I can add it to the list of 400 other things we have to investigate

Wait so do you need our computer's MAC address for anything? Or is that just for mainstream things like counterstrike? Meaning would you need my comps MAC for something like yahoo pool?

I don't think having the MAC address would help particularly with Yahoo Pool. It couldn't hurt for us to have it though. Send it to me with a quick note about what you can't access at chasedj@buffalostate.edu.

still unsure how this packetshaping does all this...

a logical solution (in my oppinion)
would be to get a list of ports most games use.
and find a port that all or most games have in common.
tell the students that want to game, to set the games port access to
that port, then turning off t he packetshaper on that port would
end up allowing us to game on that port, or a series of ports.

there may be more to it than that,
but it was the idea i kinda just thought of.

another question,
i know you set the bandwith differently from day to night,
but why is it that at 945, i still have a ping that jumps from 35-987 while playing counterstrike? I know its not my rig...

yeah I usually get cl_flushentitypackets when in game the ping jumps so high.

The problem is that most games use huge port ranges and we can't just remove the restrictions from all of them. A lot of the filesharing apps are written to look for open ports and transmit over them, so I imagine that the more we opened the slower the network would get.

The company that makes the packetshaper along with a bunch of other universities is working on writing rules that will be able to make a distinction between gaming and filesharing traffic by looking at the packet headers.

LOL could put the packetshaper on the administration and academic network and leave THOSE at 10mbps where making resnet at 100mbps. Seems that it would make sense being there is more students who use the network in the dorms.

That would be difficult considering the whole campus has less than 50 Mbit to go around.

and then the sabre system, web site, mail, and everything else that runs on the administrative network would start failing...

well i thought that maybe the finding a similar port in the games might work...
im not saying open a thousand ports,
but find a few that are very commonly used by the games listed.
as for file sharing, you could make it a rule that we cant do that?
Id be willing to stop file sharing for the school year if i could game once in a while...

It already is a rule that you can't do that. It's called a "federal law."

Correction...filesharing isn't illegal. It is the files that are traded that make the act illegal. You have said it yourself. Sorry if I'm being a wise-ass but I just want to keep that clarified.

You know what I meant.

If only legal filesharing was going on I don't think it would present a bandwidth problem.

i still feel like my idea is being ignored...
not being a jerk,
just trying to toss some ideas.

Problem is that a lot of games use big port ranges. You can't just set it to use only one port (afaik).

I know for a fact you can set alot of games to use one port tho...
i mean, its not gonna fix EVERYTHING
but some issues will be resolved

(the screen shot i sent you earlier in the semester is an example, since warcraft 3 uses one port)

maybe a better question,
are there any ports that are not being molested by the packet shaper?