Since I have noticed that every free vpn has a slow speed or has limited usage I was thinking of creating my own vpn. There is stuff that my work wifi blocks such as world of Warcraft. So I was thinking of creating a vpn on a laptop at home that I don't use anymore and have no data cap and fairly quick speeds plus have everything unlocked when I'm on my works wifi. I don't quite now if this is possible as I just found out about vpn and that there is a way I can play wow at work (I work as a cna at night and we don't do nothing for 3-5h so don't flame me).
question about vpn and setting it up
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Vipernitrox
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It's possible. You could setup a lightweight linux distribution and setup openvpn. Lots of guides to do it.
I dunno if the computer provided by your firm is ever going to allow you to do anything other than what you already know you can do.
Your best hope is probably some sort of remote-desktop service to your machine at home. Things like Webex GotomyPC or something like that. May find restrictions on your work desktop machine will stop you from being able to access it.
From memory there is a way of accessing a Microsoft terminal services session through an Internet browser at the other end. i.e. no client software required other than the Internet Browser. If you could get that working then you'd be in the money. Your poor laptop at the other end is going to take a beating though. Hope it's powerful.
Your best hope is probably some sort of remote-desktop service to your machine at home. Things like Webex GotomyPC or something like that. May find restrictions on your work desktop machine will stop you from being able to access it.
From memory there is a way of accessing a Microsoft terminal services session through an Internet browser at the other end. i.e. no client software required other than the Internet Browser. If you could get that working then you'd be in the money. Your poor laptop at the other end is going to take a beating though. Hope it's powerful.
Vipernitrox
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Remote desktop viewers are never fast enough to play games. I can tell you that. Your only option known to me is to setup vpn. Or you could try to use a ssh tunnel. but i haven't used that myself.
I'm not ashamed to admit I've never even seen World of Warcraft let alone checked out any technical specs. I always assumed it was a group stratergy game not dependent on high-speed graphics? I guess the issue is that if you try to do anything on a work machine you'll find you'll be blocked from doing it. In the case of a windows desktop this includes access to the network connections area where you would have to go if you wanted to setup a VPN. If the device being used isn't the work computer and is just some handheld thing using the wireless network then there are a lot more options.
Vipernitrox
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If vpn isn't an option you can always try the tunneling part. You only have to run putty for that which is a portable application, no reason for install. And it doesn't matter what kind of game it is. Anything will be way to slow and laggy. It simply doesn't refresh fast enough.
I'm sorry but that just isn't true. If speed isn't a factor then you can play the game. Things like Chess or other various card games can be played really eaisly over a slow link. I don't know enough / anything about WOW to know whether or not you could play it through some sort of hosted solution.
Vipernitrox
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I was talking in like FPS games and stuff. Didn't consider things like chess...
I wouldn't recommend it for anything more than that.
I don't work in IT now, but when I was a system administrator I also prevented the execution of non-approved .exe files. This wouldn't have worked on my system. In my defence I should point out that the company wouldn't spend enough money on their IT so it was impossible for the client machines to perform well whilst also allowing a free-for-all on the network. The sh1p people tried to pull with work resources was insane. I remember the time when one of them worked out how to get around the ban on international phone numbers by using a dialing card. What caught him was the fact that we were able to see bills per extention number and when one extension is spending 10x more than any other it does not take more than 2 seconds for the admin to work out what's going on. Then we just had to send the boss to his office, that fixed it.