Authenticating.... Failure. - MXO Forum Archive

#36300341774 10/23/2007 19:02 Authenticating.... Failure.

When I type in my login and Password it says... "Authenticating... Failure. Auth server inaccessible. Check your Internet connection and try again. Auth servers may also be unavailable or restarting.

I am at school so that may be a problem with this.

I understand what this means, however I would like to know if there is backdoor I can take or something to resolve this.

#36300341787 10/23/2007 19:21 Re:Authenticating.... Failure.

Sounds like your school is blocking the TCP ports you need to get access to the game. Really isn't an easy way to get around it. I suppose if you were really tricky, you could setup a SSH server at home with TCP port redirection, and then when you're at school, setup PUTTY so that you can SSH into your home PC, and then basically redirect the TCP ports for MxO through that tunnel. Effect is you'd create your own little private VPN using SSH...and you could tunnel any traffic you wanted through to your home network and back out to the Internet.

Only catch to that is that your school has to allow Port 22 out (well, I guess you can get around that too by setting up SSH on a non-standard TCP Port).

Ok, enough geeky tech speak.

#36300341801 10/23/2007 19:40 Re:Authenticating.... Failure.

oh, heh...didn't know you meant in the dorm room, thought you were elsewhere in the school. Hmm... got a laptop? Got a Panera Bread close by? I play MxO regularly at Panera with a nice sandwich. And the wifi is free there.

#36300341823 10/23/2007 20:32 Re:Authenticating.... Failure.

PCMCIA Cell Card for your laptop...preferably with EVDO on Verizon. (cuz EDGE is so bleh!) Highspeed access anywhere you go over a cellular network FTW!