Playing at work

[Itap]

Play using your phone as a hotspot. EQ uses barely any data

[Corpsed]

If you tether your phone, and make sure the wireless is turned off so its not going through the corporate wireless network then they cannot see you playing except by looking at your screen.

[Destron]

Use TeamViewer to remote into your home PC. Simple solution.

[Corpsed]

Originally Posted by Destron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Use TeamViewer to remote into your home PC. Simple solution.

They can easily see you using Teamviewer

[Destron]

Originally Posted by Corpsed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They can easily see you using Teamviewer

Right...but they can't see what you're doing on Teamviewer. Isn't that the goal here?

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Destron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Right...but they can't see what you're doing on Teamviewer. Isn't that the goal here?

Yeah but is that a hand on the shoulder when you least expect it? Not worth getting fired over.

[Corpsed]

Originally Posted by Destron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Right...but they can't see what you're doing on Teamviewer. Isn't that the goal here?

I think the goal was to play without attracting IT attention. Someone running Teamviewer will attract it and will most likely come and see what you are doing. Also, Teamviewer uses a lot of bandwidth, I know I noticed within the hour when someone on my network was using.

[Tpar]

One option, if you have it, would be for you to get a hotspot, such as a net zero or verizon hot spot, or see if your cell phone allows tethering. That way you're not going through their network and the amount of bandwidth that EQ uses is negligible.

[Deadmantis]

Back in the early 90s I was playing a game off of a floppy disk on a company PC while working night shift, and our IT engineer happened to be staying late and caught me. He laughed it off but I wasn't sure how much trouble I was in. I thought we were friends.

The PC wasn't networked yet so we had to back up everything on a tape drive and send the tapes to corporate. So the engineer typed up a phony letter on our company letterhead, from the corporate IT department head to him, saying he was going through our backup tapes and noticed some "save game" files that don't belong there. Telling him that game playing on company PCs, let alone company time is unacceptable, and that it must be dealt with.

He showed it to me and I nearly shit my pants. I thought I was getting fired for playing Jeopardy? No, I think it was Bass fishing. Either way, best joke ever.

[drktmplr12]

has anyone ever tried using teamviewer to remotely play a game? in my experience its pretty much unplayable.