private school networks suck

the title says it all. i cant even get on aim over our network and havent been able to since about 6 yesterday it sux. if anyone wants me, your either going to have to email me, which i dont recomend since i dont check much, or your going to have to PM me.

I left school over twenty years ago,don't think this problem affects me much...:)

true, it doesnt but it affects me when it takes over 5 minutes just to load the forum view page on AF.

I would have to agree with you Chris. Coming from a private school myself, it's been interesting to say the least. When our network was down for four days, luckily kbslacker clued me into using a dial-up connection, and so my problems were solved. Some others figured that out as well, but overall, there were about 2,000 students causing quite a stir. Maybe it's just a sign that perhaps we have gotten rather lost in technology, so much so that we don't know how to entertain ourselves without it.

No more AIM for me at work...frikken firewall :(

we have a firewall but its never stopped us from using aim. i dont think thats it though cause most of the sites are really slow.

Originally posted by taranaki
I left school over twenty years ago,don't think this problem affects me much...:)

Ha! Its not been quite that long for me (assuming you're talking about high school) ;) :D

I wouldn't know- When I left school we used Acorn computers!!!!

Makes me glad I have my own home network. :)

Originally posted by KatWoman
No more AIM for me at work...frikken firewall :(

Interesting, I have a hardware firewall and I use AIM just fine. Do you have ZoneAlarm or Black Ice?

Originally posted by DantesInferno
I would have to agree with you Chris. Coming from a private school myself, it's been interesting to say the least. When our network was down for four days, luckily kbslacker clued me into using a dial-up connection, and so my problems were solved. Some others figured that out as well, but overall, there were about 2,000 students causing quite a stir. Maybe it's just a sign that perhaps we have gotten rather lost in technology, so much so that we don't know how to entertain ourselves without it.

hey me be smart, me missed this the first time :bloated:. this reminds me of the time when we linked four computers to one dial-up account on the bad phone lines and it was still faster than our network except the first couple days of school.

Originally posted by Polygon



Interesting, I have a hardware firewall and I use AIM just fine. Do you have ZoneAlarm or Black Ice?

I am not sure what we have at the office. Actually we can't download AIM so I had been using AIM Express but can't use that now. I think they blocked applets or something :(

Originally posted by KatWoman
No more AIM for me at work...frikken firewall :( I’ve never been able to have AIM at work due to needing Administrators rights to install it. I even tried the AIM Express to no avail. Stoopid restrictions!! :mad:

hehe I am the Administrator at work so I control what goes in and out.

Originally posted by darkness
hehe I am the Administrator at work so I control what goes in and out. Ya lucky bugger. Damn I wish I was an administrator. :(

i downloaded AIM at school once and since my screen name makes it fairly obvious as to who i am(hermunn123... last name-hermann), my teacher saw it and got all mad at me. stupid teachers...

Originally posted by Jimmy_11_cars
I wouldn't know- When I left school we used Acorn computers!!!!

Taranaki leans back on rocking chair,sucks on pipe and smiles.... :toothless

Sonny,when I left school there was only one computer classroom.'The Computer' was kept in it . Acess to the room was by punchcard only,and only the brightest and most law-abiding hall-monitor type geeks got a card.The equipment itself took up half of the room....so I'm told.

Sadly I was one of the sudents destined never to see it.The closest I ever got was the detention room across the hall....frequently.It may surprise you to know that I was quite a smartass in school.


I must have been 34 or so before I set my fingers on a piece of Hewlett-Packard's finest...

any ways I left school early to join the Royal Navy......they very kindly adjusted my attitude for me....but that's another story.....:toothless :toothless

Darkness...... Mate maybe one of the times when your over you can help sort something out. For some dumb reason our home server wont allow direct connections between any of us and someone out outside our network.

I can upload and download files fine from other servers but we can not file transfer directly or direct chat from programms such as ICQ.

At work I have the same problems as you FTO only worse as we are locked out the net except at the server itself.