On 02/07/2010 10:27, Merciadri Luca wrote:
No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to a webpage which asks you your university login& your university password. Once you have entered this stuff, you are logged on the network, and everything is okay. That's a little bit like ADSL where you need to type credentials before using the Internet (at the opposite of the cable). :-( Thanks.
...so you can only use a browser then? You can't use other applications? This sounds like the sort of system they have a hotels and such like...but there are ways to get around these...one way was even put in a Linux magazine a few weeks ago. Have a search around