Gaming

While the primary purpose of the Chapman Network is to support instruction and research activities, Chapman does not prohibit the use of the residential network for gaming provided these activities do not interfere with the primary purposes of the network.

If you are interested in using the residential network for gaming there are three things you should know:

1. Chapman does not block any of the high numbered ports used by internet gaming servers.  The only ports blocked on the residential network are a few low numbered ports used by well known internet worms such as Code Red, Slammer, Blaster and Welchia.
   
   
2. Computers on the residential network use private IP addresses which are translated into public IP addresses by our firewall in order to connect to the internet.  This is a popular security mechanism known as Network Address Translation or NAT.  Most internet games work quite well via NAT but there may be some games or other internet software that does not work over NAT.  Chapman does not support any internet software on the residential network if it does not work either over a NAT connection or through a proxy server.