I'm bored and would really enjoy gaming in between working and socialising, but I think my university has a restrictive firewall. The only game that I have that works is Counterstrike : Source, and that's apparently because it was in high demand a while back and they configured the firewall to allow it specifically, along with e.g. WoW.
If I try to log in to H&H, it simply times out at the login screen and says in red text "Connection timed out: connect".
I've downloaded an application called Your-freedom and OpenVPN, and configured it so that I connect through this. This allows me to log in, but after I click "Create new character.." or "Log in where you last logged out", my HUD loads fine but then I have a black screen saying "Loading.." and then after a short while I get automatically logged out.
I've also tried another game I love called Heroes of Newerth, it's an RTS, but it simply displays no servers for me to join (both normally and when using the Your-Freedom/OpenVPN apps).
At home, H&H worked fine, here it doesn't though, therefore it's a connectivity issue.
So can anyone help? I'd really appreciate it, I'd be willing to subscribe around $20/month (or ~£15, I'm from the UK) for any programs.
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Shask
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Re: Can anyone help my quest to get H&H to work at university?
This isn't my area, but I'm pretty sure you're just going to have to ask your techs to allow it like they did for those other games. Being a firewall issue, you may be able to have the app go through a proxy between your uni and the server, but I'm not sure you would be able to do that with the client, or at all.
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sabinati
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Re: Can anyone help my quest to get H&H to work at university?
haven uses UDP port 1870 and TCP port 1871 if that helps at all
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Re: Can anyone help my quest to get H&H to work at university?
What you need is a VPN (Virtual Private Network), that will let you tunnel through your university's firewall to do whatever you want on the net. http://vpnuk.net/ seems to have a reasonable priced service.
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Shask
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Re: Can anyone help my quest to get H&H to work at university?
That vpnuk one worked, thanks man. Did nothing different than the other ones either. Awesome, I get to play again. I just logged in at my hearth fire and I'm now trapped behind a wall as I left a cart with all my valuables (including the key out) in a camp. Wilderness spawn ftw! See you all on the field 
