ProxyConnect

Here's a way to connect to the game through work or otherwise firewall'd.

Things you will need:

• Access to a computer that will remain on and connected to the internet when you need to login
• Cygwin installed on said computer (or it to be a mac/linux, but I don't cover that)
• PuTTY on your work computer

Follow these directions to setup an ssh server on your home computer:
http://lifehacker.com/software/home-server/geek-to-live--set-up-a-personal-home-ssh-server-205090.php

From your work computer, open up PuTTY and setup a new config.

• In the Session screen put the IP address of your home computer, and leave the port as 22, and select SSH.
• In the Connection/Proxy screen, enter the data for your work computer's proxy (should be the same data that's in IE under proxy settings, often proxy.<workdomain>.com and port 8080).
• Under Connection/SSH/Tunnels enter the following tunnels:

  eaccess.play.net:7900
  updater.play.net:5535
  storm.gs4.game.play.net:10124
  play.gs4.game.play.net:10121

(Each of these is in the form "address:port", enter the whole thing (address:port) in the destination field, enter the port in the source port field, and click Add)

• Back under Session, save the session to some name
• Now click Open at the bottom, and login to your ssh server using the login you setup when you set it up on your home computer (usually it's the same username/password as you use to login to your home computer normally)

Now, from your work computer, edit (in notepad, and then save) C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to look like this (after the comments):

  127.0.0.1          localhost
  127.0.0.1          eaccess.play.net
  127.0.0.1          storm.gs4.game.play.net
  127.0.0.1          plat.gs4.game.play.net
  127.0.0.1          ukena.simutronics.com
  127.0.0.1          updater.play.net

Now you should be all set. If all of these steps worked, you can now install the SGE and loader and login!

Hope that helps.

- Greminty