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I'm a college student studying software engineering, and right now I'm in the hospital, but I'm still trying to do my schoolwork. The semester is almost over, so I really can't afford to fall behind. For some reason, I can't connect to my school's Linux Lab with either PuTTY or WinSCP on my Windows 10 laptop. They both say the connection has timed out.
The hospital's guest WiFi network is public, but I don't think that's the problem since I was able to connect from a public hotel network without a problem a few days ago.
The starting code for my assignments is located on my school's Linux Lab, so I can't do them unless I can get that code somehow. Does anyone know of anything I can do to fix this? Thanks.
Hotels typically have very different (read lax) security and/or policies than institutions. And "guest WiFis" are typically very limited no matter where they are. – None – 2018-04-07T21:35:23.170
First, unless you have successfully connected to your school’s Linux lab from outside their network before, my guess is nobody—not just you—can access this network off-campus. You most likely need VPN access and such. That said, you say, “The semester is almost over, so I really can't afford to fall behind.” I doubt your school will penalize you if they know you are hospitalized. I would expect they could work with you to made the project when you are out and better. – JakeGould – 2018-04-07T22:02:53.017
I have connected to the Linux Lab from outside the network before. I'm an online student, and my school lets their students remotely access the Linux Lab with SSH and SFTP. This is the first time I've had problems. – Living4God1991 – 2018-04-08T04:25:21.897
@user65209 Okay, all sounds solid now. I actually didn’t notice the “hotel” reference so that’s that. Will retract my close vote. – JakeGould – 2018-04-09T00:03:54.577