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Thread: Do you log in from someplace out of the norm?
I have a question...How exactly do you log onto your computer using a cell phone and play SWG?! This really blows my mind!
Thanks!
Mobile companies offer wireless internet access through their service. It's a special card you plug into your PCMCIA slot in your laptop that access theirskyband. Works like wi-fi, only the card is tuned to the mobile service provider.
Ok i dont know if this will be interesting to you but here is my "loging in" history/geography:
Greece:
Parents house
at the wierdest net cafe at the smallest surreal vilage at a god forsaken border of greece with turkey
England :
Dorm Room
Heathrow airport
Manchaster airport
Germany:
Restaurant ( I used to play SWG while"managing" my greek restaurant in germany
At the hobby room of the house i was renting. The previous owner was a horseshoe maker ( dont know how they call this in english)
and the room was still full of horseshoes on the walls and wierd instruments he was keepin for decoration.
New York:
JFK airport
at a hotel room on lexington avenue
at the bar from the hotel
at the house of a NYPD Officer in staten island, wich is my best ingame friend btw. I never had seen him befor but we meet up while i was in NYC , great time.
Well no submarines or anything but sure have lots of memorys playing this game all over the globe.
HA i remember it like it was yesterday...(acutallyduring the vehical release) I was just a high school senior..and I had just got an early gift (laptop) so i decided to bring it to my lil brothers school play which lasted 3 hours btw....and thank God for wireless school network...so as you can imagine..I enjoyed 3 hrs of a should have been crappy evening......haha this was one of the best moments in swg for me...ha and not becasue of the major bugg (Vehical grave yards) for those who don't know just be glad you joined the swg population after they fixxed this terrible bugg (vehicals not being able to be stored..horrible)
Airport twice... Boston, MA, and O'Haire airport in Chicago.
I log in on to SWG with my laptop almost every day at school... I have permission to hook up to their network, because I need it for research, and to access the domain using my personal system (can not handwrite).
So, it is very fun playing at school, sometimes the connection goes down... but hey... it is on a government line... 100mbit line is not too fast when you have over 700 computers on at once, but hey, it is still VERY fast...
I played an hour after getting home from the hospital after having my toe nails removed... I had gotten a new USB mouse a week or two before... and I had used that on the couch, with bags of ice on my toes, but I do not know if this really counts... but I was told that it was VERY odd that I ended up taking a week off of work and school because I had to stay off of my feet lol.
Moral of that story: Keep your desktop fast, but still keep your laptop up to date ;-)
Sometimes I play the game on my way to school... or used to... I used to have a cardbus wifi adapter before this new laptop had centrino, and I had an antena that I put on my seat next to me... so I would play for about an hour on my way to school hehe.
No, can't play at work though... never tried and I don't want to see what would happen if I would.
Tiggs: So, do they actually make you play SWG at work lol?
I once went off to a 1 week North Carolina Outer Banks vacation, packing my junker machine and backup LCD for the trek after seeing that the house had a broadband connection. The original expectation was that it would rain one or two days, so I thought "why not bring something to do during bad weather?"
I never saw the beach. Nor did itrain. 
EDIT1: Returning again to NC this year, as we do every year (family member owns the house), though this time its for Thanksgiving, not a summer trek.I plan on backing/lugging my 48lb water-cooled Voodoo and new HP L2335 23" 16:10 LCD... too cold for the beach anyway. 
EDIT2: Before we fired the idiot IT guy we used to have and installed a *real* Firewall, I used to play at work all the time on a Twin 3 GHz Alienware. How'd I manage to get an Alienware for my work machine? "We need you to reccomend a good machine for Video compression for your department, likely double as yout main machine." "Uuuuh... I heard a rumor that good gaming machines are built strong enoug for that task... "
Message Edited by KaiRan on 10-26-2005 06:57 PM
ooo, i also logged on earlier this summer from a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska using a satelite connection. It was kinda fun to be able to sit on the balcony of the ship with the computer in your lap, and be staring right at a glaciar 
, that was a rush....well i guess not more of a rush then dog-sledding with 10 alaskan husky's pulling you through a glacier 5000 feet above see level!
Hi!
I've just logged in from 30000 feet on a Boeing 747-400 using the onboard wifi (Connexion By Boeing). Posting this from seat 34K somewhere above the Middle East!
Hope that's exotic enough to count!
Haeson
SBRDOC said - 'Using a Gov't Computers to play games is against the Rules...'
And yet I know someone ( who shall remain nameless) who signs on from an Air Force listening outpost in Alaska while on duty. Our tax dollars at work
As a sailor who spent four years on subs, until they develop some type of underwater modem, playing SWG ain't going to happen. Now if a solo version were to exist, now that would be a nice holdover.
recently i logged in at school the tricky part of this was it was on my computer at home via a telnet session
not really an odd place but an odd way of doing it
oh fyi i did that because my school has the swg ports blocked some kid 1 quarter ahead of me set that up for all the mmos