How can i access a network ive been banned from?

Any computer using WIFI has a MAC address, which the network administrator can determine, and allow, or deny access to services, etc. If you do something they don’t particularly allow, they can block your MAC address from accessing the network. Best bet is to talk to your schools IT dept.

Assuming of course it’s MAC filtering they’re using, could be something else… Either way, talk to them, they might be able to allow you access again.

They are probably blocking your MAC address and I don’t blame them for doing so. If you can’t get them to unblock it you could buy a USB WIFI stick and use that instead of the WIFI built into your laptop. I bought one for about ten bucks a few months ago.

For the moment, Johnpowell is at 11111 in lurve!

Feel free to tamper with your settings, but you have to get up REAL early to trick an true IT master. It’s better to talk with them and apologize, and try to talk your way back in. If that fails, then go with the tampering.

@daloon: Good eye.. I made sure to document it.

i just dont wanna go find whatever building they are in lol would be much easier if i diddnt have to see them

@johnpowell
And so you feel the need to test just how good his eye is? :-)

If you are running transmission in the background,
1. At best you are clogging up internet that they have allocated for everyone. They probably don’t buy a massive amount of bandwidth so everyone can download/upload torrents at the same time.
2. At worst you are opening up the school to charges of copyright infringement by the RIAA and MPAA (I’m assuming you aren’t downloading GPLed content). These organizations could technically sue the school for actions you have taken. Every network is responsible for what it’s users do on that network.

That being said, you have a couple choices. You can spoof your mac address (change it to something else). There are tons of programs that do this for all operating systems. You could also buy an external WIFI dongle like johnpowell has suggested above. The new device will have a completely different MAC address then your old wireless card.

Or you could go talk to the guy and get yourself unbanned. This is by far the easiest thing to do.

*a quick note: At my college we had to turn in our mac addresses before we could get on the network. You had to specifically be allowed to use the network before you could get on it. If you had to turn in your MAC address to use the system, the only thing that will work is talking to the system administrator. No matter what the case, if he found out you were trying to work around the legitimate channels, he would possibly get angry with you.

Google: How to change your Media Access Control (MAC) address.

rob, that’s hilarious. It’s going in my personal favorites.

If your school banned you from the network, and you evade the ban, and they find out, you’re likely to get in significant trouble.

We’re talking expulsion here.

Talk to the IT department and ask them how you can get back on the network.