Originally posted by modmyxbox:

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change the ports fool.

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Originally posted by WJ99:

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I'm in the same situation. I have a laptop that I take to university, and I want to download within the actual university.

There isn't a proper useable wired network within the university itself, but there is a wireless one which you have to sign onto using your student username and password, so that's a no go.

There are also computer rooms, that use a wired ethernet connection but if I pull the cable out and put it in my laptop then I can't even obtain a IP address..

Any ideas guys before this gets moved out of the 360 forum?

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Originally posted by miketrev:

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Originally posted by WJ99:

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I'm in the same situation. I have a laptop that I take to university, and I want to download within the actual university.

There isn't a proper useable wired network within the university itself, but there is a wireless one which you have to sign onto using your student username and password, so that's a no go.

There are also computer rooms, that use a wired ethernet connection but if I pull the cable out and put it in my laptop then I can't even obtain a IP address..

Any ideas guys before this gets moved out of the 360 forum?

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Would have a look in network connection / network and sharing centre to see what IP/subnet the computer is statically assigned then copy that setup to your lappy.

Might work

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Originally posted by WJ99:

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Assumed that they would have locked the control panel down on the main server through group policy but haven't tried. Will do.

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Originally posted by miketrev:

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Originally posted by WJ99:

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Assumed that they would have locked the control panel down on the main server through group policy but haven't tried. Will do.

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You could also run the "ipconfig" command from the command prompt.

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Originally posted by qwert99:

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ipconfig just reports to you what the current IP address of the network adapter is, so no, it won't cause a conflict.

So if you run ipconfig on the wired computer, you can then attempt to copy that info to your laptop if you wire it in.

If it still won't work, clone the MAC address of your ethernet adapter to that of a known-working PC.

If that still doesn't work, you are sort of screwed unless you jack somebody's password or something.

Speaking completely hypothetically, if the wireless connection isn't encrypted, and sometimes even if it is, 'sniffing' the data going through the airways isn't very difficult. Not that I would ever advise such a thing, of course.

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Originally posted by WJ99:

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Originally posted by qwert99:

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ipconfig just reports to you what the current IP address of the network adapter is, so no, it won't cause a conflict.

So if you run ipconfig on the wired computer, you can then attempt to copy that info to your laptop if you wire it in.

If it still won't work, clone the MAC address of your ethernet adapter to that of a known-working PC.

If that still doesn't work, you are sort of screwed unless you jack somebody's password or something.

Speaking completely hypothetically, if the wireless connection isn't encrypted, and sometimes even if it is, 'sniffing' the data going through the airways isn't very difficult. Not that I would ever advise such a thing, of course.

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My wireless adapter doesn't support "sniffing" to the extent of actually helping a lot.

Cloning the MAC address of a ethernet port.. Interesting. Is there a easy way to do this?

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Originally posted by qwert99:

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Originally posted by WJ99:

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Originally posted by qwert99:

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ipconfig just reports to you what the current IP address of the network adapter is, so no, it won't cause a conflict.

So if you run ipconfig on the wired computer, you can then attempt to copy that info to your laptop if you wire it in.

If it still won't work, clone the MAC address of your ethernet adapter to that of a known-working PC.

If that still doesn't work, you are sort of screwed unless you jack somebody's password or something.

Speaking completely hypothetically, if the wireless connection isn't encrypted, and sometimes even if it is, 'sniffing' the data going through the airways isn't very difficult. Not that I would ever advise such a thing, of course.

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My wireless adapter doesn't support "sniffing" to the extent of actually helping a lot.

Cloning the MAC address of a ethernet port.. Interesting. Is there a easy way to do this?

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You can change some right from the advanced properties tab of the network adapter in Windows. If yours doesn't support that, there is software out there to do it. Sorry, I don't know any to recommend off the top of my head, but I have done it before.

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Originally posted by WJ99:

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Thanks. Will give it a try. Going to try this http://www.technitium.com/tmac/index.html

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Originally posted by John_Donn:

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by changing ports you simply mean taking the data wire and moving it into a different ethernet hole?

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Originally posted by chris4160:

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Can't you just go to a free wifi hotspot (like mcdonald's) and download your games?

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