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Wireless Internet Access
Thursday 11th January, 2007 19:51 Comments: 1
Work have paid for me to stay overnight, and the place I'm staying at thhas wireless internet access, but IE displays their welcome page when you try and visit any site. You're then supposed to supply a username and password, presumably to allow external access, but out of curiosity I decided to see what would happen if I pinged a website. It worked. So i tried another, which also worked. So I launched mstsc and tried to connect via Remote Desktop to my fileserver at home. It worked! It seems all they're stopping is, presumably, web access. So there's no reason why I can't get things up and running over RDP, or perhaps even run a proxy on my fileserver to get web access on the work laptop in the hotel room. Or, even better, I could run a proxy on the PC at work (2MB upload rate, nice and quick) and tell the others they can use that too. Sometimes I love being a geek.
Avatar Robert - Thursday 11th January, 2007 20:34
I think they're restricting access on certain ports, as I couldn't get a proxy running on port 8080, but it appears to work fine on port 65456. My proxy (The Proxomitron, which I remember from my days at uni) is restricting access to that of where I'm staying, so it should be fairly safe from abuse. Yay me.
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