I have internet and heat right now. I'm pretty happy. So it turns out that they actually turned on my internet on Friday, but I had plugged one of my ethernet cables into my (illegal) router slightly askew, and it hadn't quite connected. My bad.
I just gotta know. What can possibly be illegal about a router? Against who's law is it? Is it stolen? Is it against the rules to put a router on the network?
Haha, Charlie, you're the only person who has successfully figured out blog comments yet.
Anyways, the router is "illegal" in the sense that the terms and conditions I signed technically ban "private routing daemons." The issue is that I have two computers that I need to connect wiredly in my room, since this whole thing is extremely outdated and there is no wireless network available here. But there's one ethernet jack in the room -- so I'm using a router anyway. Other options could have included somehow setting the internet for the laptop to go through the desktop (Nick would have had to set that up) -- but "IP packet forwarding is forbidden." Or I could have just swapped the ethernet cord between the two -- but "No network device other than the computer identified in the paplication should under any circumstance be connected to the network." Basically, Darwin College, for unknown and probably outdated reasons, really seems to want you to have only one computer. So I chose the illegal router route.
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I just gotta know. What can possibly be illegal about a router? Against who's law is it? Is it stolen? Is it against the rules to put a router on the network?
Haha, Charlie, you're the only person who has successfully figured out blog comments yet.
Anyways, the router is "illegal" in the sense that the terms and conditions I signed technically ban "private routing daemons." The issue is that I have two computers that I need to connect wiredly in my room, since this whole thing is extremely outdated and there is no wireless network available here. But there's one ethernet jack in the room -- so I'm using a router anyway. Other options could have included somehow setting the internet for the laptop to go through the desktop (Nick would have had to set that up) -- but "IP packet forwarding is forbidden." Or I could have just swapped the ethernet cord between the two -- but "No network device other than the computer identified in the paplication should under any circumstance be connected to the network." Basically, Darwin College, for unknown and probably outdated reasons, really seems to want you to have only one computer. So I chose the illegal router route.
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