How to get past the uni firewall?

BroB9 · 15 Sep 2013 at 10:12

I moved in to my new place yesterday and I can't access things like Teamspeak or watch Twitch.tv streams which are two things I do every day. Is there a way to get around this?

Thanks

davido_labido · 15 Sep 2013 at 10:16

get in touch with the system admins, they will usually unblock certain things if you ask them (as long as its within reason obviously)

BroB9 · 15 Sep 2013 at 11:44

I'll give that a go.

Just found out I can't play League of Legends either -_-

Kreeeee · 15 Sep 2013 at 12:19

BroB9 said:
I'll give that a go.

Just found out I can't play League of Legends either -_-

No great loss there

BuZ · 15 Sep 2013 at 12:39

It's impossible - mainly because of the firewalls protecting the whole university. Unless they've got the power/option to unblock certain things for certain areas.

davido_labido · 15 Sep 2013 at 12:53

most of the places my mates have been to uni, they have bene able to get certain ports unblocked, but you have to state why gaming and comms was fine for everyone bar 1 (who got a dongle instead so all was good in the end.

KIA · 15 Sep 2013 at 14:02

OpenVPN on port 443.

https://www.privatetunnel.com/
http://proxpn.com/

Both offer free trials. Let us know if you need help getting signed up.

BroB9 · 15 Sep 2013 at 14:58

I'm struggling to find the right person to ask to unblock things. But in the mean time I tried private tunnel as KIA suggested, that gave me a 122 ping with bad download speeds so it's better than nothing but I'm going to give ProXpn a try as well.

KIA said:
OpenVPN on port 443.

Not %100 sure what you mean by this, I presume I have to do something other than just connect?

foster grant · 15 Sep 2013 at 15:23

Is the porXPN basic account worth having ?....im asking as im interested in using ...if its worth it
, I'm assuming its pretty slow

BroB9 · 15 Sep 2013 at 15:25

foster grant said:
Is the porXPN basic account worth having ?....im asking as im interested in using ...if its worth it

I've just got it working now, I've got a 22ms ping with excellent download speeds, it's perfect!

foster grant · 15 Sep 2013 at 15:29

BroB9 said:
I've just got it working now, I've got a 22ms ping with excellent download speeds, it's perfect!

OK I'll give it a try a bit later

KIA · 16 Sep 2013 at 19:29

BroB9 said:
Not %100 sure what you mean by this, I presume I have to do something other than just connect?

The restrictive firewall should allow port 443 outbound. You might not have to do anything.