QUOTE (Bascote @ Nov 10 2008, 10:46 PM)
Hey guys,
We have two connections at school, our guest connection has blocked many services related to games apparently but our main, encrypted connection allows me to login to many games. For some reason, though, NexusTK is one of the only games that I have that I cannot connect to.
The first time I launched the game I got all the way up to the create a new character screen but was disconnected before I could login. Now I can get to the main screen (New, Continue, Leave, etc) but it now IMMEDIATELY goes to the "Reconnect or Leave" dialog.
Any idea if theres a way I can get past this, Im hoping its not completely related to our network side of things and that theres something I can do on my side to get connected (of course on the same laptop it works from home)
Quick little bit of info for you.
1: The 'guest' connection only allows connections on port '80' which is the port used for http (aka internet browsing). This keeps the connection extremely secure from outside users that the school doesn't want on the network
2: The encrypted connection requires school id/pass authorization, and therefore leaves the school with less liability. As for not being able to be connected to Nexus, I think it's become a very common occurrence on many college campus' now. I'm not sure if it's something KRU is doing unintentionally, or it really is just something on the school's side. Back about a year ago, I fought for months with the IT Department at my University about not being able to be connected, and even through my 'connections' on the board of directors -- it even got as far as the Network Administrator installing Nexus on his computer (Mind you I go to a school with over 40,000 students, big school) and it took him weeks to figure it out. It has to do with something in the firewall that many schools use. Since I'm not really too knowledgeable of University infrastructure once it leaves campus, I really don't know what their using, although it seems like it might be the same set up at many schools.
That being said, it's extremely unlikely that the issue can be fixed and you'll be able to play Nexus on the school's connection.
Also, read this:
http://www.nexusforums.com/index.php?s=&am...ost&p=64957Edit: Then again, if you can get to the log-in screen, it's possible that just the ports are being blocked, which has been a problem for players before that go to smaller schools.
Shoot your schools IT Department an e-mail asking if the ports on a few IPs are open. Give an explanation of why you want them to be open, as well as links to the Nexus website. If the ports being blocked is just the issue, you might have a better chance of getting on with the schools connection. If not, then you'll have to proxy your connection if you want to connect.
Also, the software that Topher posted earlier is shady as hell, I wouldn't recommend using it.
-Brant