ey how do i stop my roommates from blocking my ip on the router

[KoopaScooper]

I don't think you can legally do anything about it.

Also, laws still apply to high school students.

lol.  dont listen to this moron because he doesn't exactly understand how these things work.

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[Nal]

Also, laws still apply to high school students.

all he's doing is trying to unblock himself, who said that was illegal. its their network

[Bisjac]

"dorm"?

why do the tenants of a "dorm" even have access to a router anyway...

[Katla]

US laws do not apply to romanian high school students

Most countries have laws against this stuff, I'm sure Romania is included.

all he's doing is trying to unblock himself, who said that was illegal. its their network

It doesn't matter what he's trying to do, you can't connect to a network that you don't have permission to connect to. If he doesn't own the router, he doesn't have the authority to decide whether or not he can use it.
It's doubtful that anyone would actually get police involved, but if the router belongs to his roommates, not the school, and he does anything, he'd probably get in trouble with the school. Which seems like it'd be a bigger deal if you live on campus. He'd probably get in trouble if he did anything and it belonged to the school, too, so in that case talking to the people in charge of it is the best option.

[Tudoreleu]

dude chill the forget off i'm not hacking the fbi here

i'm just messing around with my roommates. the worst i'd earn if i got caught would be a prank or something

[Flatflyer]

Break his teeth in

If the router has a default password you can easily get on and mess with it, try to do something like turning it off it randomly a few times so they think something is broken with it and then turn it off and unblock your IP, he'll think its the router breaking instead of you causing it.

[Tudoreleu]

if i had the password i'd just unblock myself to begin with

i already said i didn't


anyway i think they didn't manage to do it and just gave up. will report on the situation later.

[sir dooble]

If neither you nor your roommates own the router, and it belongs to your school, then just contact them.
Since you're in a dorm, I assume you're paying some form of rent to live there?
In which case you're also paying for internet.

[Tudoreleu]

it isn't the school's router; it's of a classmate of one guy here. apparently he borrowed it or something? no real clue

[sir dooble]

So, do you not have internet otherwise in the dorm?

[Cybertails1998]

no, according to him there's also the default school wifi but it blocks important stuff (steam for example).

[Tudoreleu]

it blocks steam, pretty much any online game i could want to play, a LOT of sites [opendns blocking, which has a HUMONGOUS list of sites to block, such as minecraft forums, steam community, etc - pretty much every site not related to school that the designers of opendns could think of]

[Flatflyer]

does it block BLF?
if not, you'll be fine. you can live off of us.

[Oasis]

I don't understand what the forget could possibly be happening with the OP. So you're in a dorm, with roommates, and they've plugged a router, I assume, into the room's ethernet, and now they won't let you use the router? And the wifi blocks stuff but the hardwired connection doesn't? Are students allowed to bring a router to the dorm? What the forget is going on in Romania.

[$trinick]

You should probably just find new roommates.