So... any news on PS2/X-Box gaming being available? I sent my MAC address on 8/26 and still can't play Madden... I'm gettin' the shakes!

Amen

If u got xbox + halo2, u can play that against people on campus. i know some people who do that. im not sure how u go about doing it but they play against each other.

Nah we have PS2 and we are waitin for Madden.

do tell how...

i'll ask the dude next door to me john, cuz i know he plays

Awesome, thanks.

So seriously Res Life...Any news on PS2 online?

*ahem, and XB Live

Two things. One is there anyway to get party poker to work? Two is there any chance ps2 online will ever work? Or maybe it does now...I haven't checked for a while because I'm assuming.

I simply don't know what does and does not work.

I'd suggest Full Tilt Poker. I've tried many programs and feel that Full Tilt is the best program available.

anyone ever figure out why yahoo games dont work...like yahoo pool or yahoo chess

It's closer to working now. I've tried both of those. You can connect to the room but not to other people.

What about Playstation 2 and Xbob connectivity? I'm getting a PS2 in about a week and I really want to be able to play my games online, are we pretty close to being connected? What info would you need other than MAC adresses?

I will post here as soon as I know anything. This is not something I'm personally able to directly affect or work on, so I have to count on Computing Services to make these changes. I will continue to pass along your concerns.

Is Computing Services located in the library? If so I'll see if I can see what's going on in there. I really wanna be online by Thanksgiving.

CTS is located in Twin Rise, but going there probably won't help much. I am in communication with them, and they are aware of the situation. We are petitioning for Tech Fee funding for more bandwidth and are researching Packetshaper settings for common games.

Like I said, I'll let the appropriate people know that you posted again.

Ok 3 questions...
How do I find the MAC address for my ps2?
Who do I send it to? and
Is anyone on campus able to connect online with their PS2's?

Is anyone on campus able to connect online with their PS2's?

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Nope.

Battle.net can connect diablo 2 but how come when i try to connect using open battle.net it hangs on joining games? this is not the realms.

I have no trouble connecting to D2 except for the person that has my cd key...that why i stay on all the time now. The only problem i have is lag

JT

can we please establish an unblocked port for those of us who CAN choose what port our games run on?
seriously, the semester is more than half over...

No ports are blocked except IRC. I think I may have mentioned that before.

So WHAT, exactly is blocking my Playstaion's access to the net, it begins to connect then runs in a wall, perhaps a firewall... well of course it's a firewall, this is a huge priority to me. What's taking so long for these computer services guys to get moving?

Let me check into it again. I'll forward your message to the guys in CTS.

i was under the impression that the almighty packet shaper was the reason we were never to game again... though you were trying to work out the kinks...
so i am confused now...
and yeah, weve been over no ports are blocked...
but we need the packet shaper to not rape ALL ports,
like leave a few without the packet shaper, that way we can at least game...
and i can try and do some research to see what ports PS2 and XBLive go through,
see if there is anything we can do about that...
SEEMS like the most logical solution.
but hey,
Im just a college student,
what do i know.

It doesn't work by port, it looks at the traffic and classifies it by type of traffic.

What is your real name / username? Do I have your PS2's MAC address already? I will need that in order to get it to work.

you have mine I believe. Username jacojm09.

Here, take a look at this page.
http://www.us.playstation.com/support.aspx...3907.html&print

It shows the ports that some games use, I'll try to provide as much info as I can.

BTW, when I ried to connect this morning it gave me this error
"Network Error (610)
Connection to the DNAS server failed."

hey,
were getting somewhere,
now if only we knew how to avoid the packet shaper...

I sent you my XB's mac address before i got to school, and 2x since.
Still was a no go...
so something is still wicked funky.

Write a script on a server that tunnels bandwidth from there. This way you'd be making the packet shaper think its coming from a local server on campus but really from the outside. The packet shaper does not control local bandwidth.

I think we'd probably prefer that you didn't do that.

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

ok,
well you leave us no choice,
were gonna hire some korean programers,
and all your connections are belong to us.


well help us out...

Update: I used to get stuck at the DNAS checking thing but now I cant even get that far. I cant access the DCHP or something like that. I see you guys are doing "something" so i'm not dissatisfied.

Come on, you can do it!

Can you try it again? Let me know as specifically as possible what kind of error messages you get.

last time i tried,
it cut off right at the end, and asked me if i was plugged into a router.
the last checkpoint on the troubleshooter.

Here's an update.
Ok, I can now get past the DNAS screen, but I cannot connect to any servers. I can't get onto gamespy or EA servers, Those are the only ones I was able to try.

omg omg omg!
ahhh!!!!1111oneone
we might be able to game next semester it seems!

What?

im basically saying this semester we cant game, next semester we might have a shot.
but seeing that the above comment that we are getting close makes me feel better about my possible gaming.
but til then,
ummm
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

keep on preachin.

I'm using TonyHawk American Wasteland to test my online capabilites. I can get connected to the master server and download content like parks and created skaters. I cannot however, connect to Gamespy to "play" the game. Also, when playing an EA sports game I cant connect to the EA servers. You guys enabled the PS2 to get online, now you have to unblock or whatever The individual company servers, Gamespy and EA are known already, I'll list more as I try more games.

yeah I always test it with Madden and I can't get online yet.

I have made a discovery today,
this will only be relevent to those of us that play pc games (I think) so far.

So a while back, we had a thread started becasue we had an AIM connection issue.
everyone was pissed.
but carissa who uses trillian like I do, stated that we can switch what ports aim uses.
where is this going? listen up.
I was able to direct connect at the port that trillian was defaulted as.
5190.
I was trying to figure out what to do with this.
Warcraft 3 has to use ports through 4900 and 11246 (think thats the numbers).
So I switched to that port and turned off windows' firewall (but had norton running in the back) and was able to connect.

test some ports on AIM first and connect using that port later I assume.
but thats the best bet so far....
and I dont even work at residence life...
WOOT!

Hey, is there any way to use the Nintendo DS WiFi connection here?


This is a test page from Nintendo that gives us an error

http://www.nintendowifi.com/troubleshooting/NetworkTest.jsp

The error has something to do with a NAT connection


Is there a way to fix this problem? Or are we just not allowed to do anything about it like everything else?

Not sure what you mean by "like everything else."

Where are you trying to connect to a wireless access point?

Perhaps there are no other Nintendo DS systems in range of each other.

The DS has wi-fi but it does not go over the Internet so it will not use the 802.11B school network. It is a proprietary wi-fi system by Nintendo between systems for multiplayer use.