Uni halls blocking Steam VPN?

Xerco · 4 Nov 2011 at 23:24

Hey, my friend lives in halls at university and they have blocked Steam which seems abit mad to me but whatever.

Would a vpn bypass the block or? and ideas welcome.

Thanks for your time

bad_ass_neil · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:05

depends what ports they block.
blocking steam is not unheard of either.

Jay794 · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:18

You're at Uni to work, you shouldn't be playing games

Puppetmaster · 5 Nov 2011 at 13:23

Jay794 said:
You're at Uni to work, you shouldn't be playing games

So when you were in education you spent 16 hours a day learning / working?

Jay794 · 5 Nov 2011 at 14:10

No but I hardly had time to play games, I was either in lectures, in work, doing assignments or travelling to do one of the 3

Xerco · 5 Nov 2011 at 14:24

Jay794 said:
No but I hardly had time to play games, I was either in lectures, in work, doing assignments or travelling to do one of the 3

this is first year we are talking about, your at uni halls to live away from home yes so your closer to the work place but not to devote every hour of your waking life to work.

twist3d0n3 · 5 Nov 2011 at 14:36

a vpn should work, but i'd check your uni policy to make sure they don't boot you off the network OR out of uni for violating their policy.

as to the guy who doesn't have fun whilst at uni, LOL

Xerco · 5 Nov 2011 at 14:38

ok thanks il give it a go

Jay794 · 5 Nov 2011 at 15:17

I had fun whilst at Uni, but it wasnt whilst on my PC. I had fun at house parties and at the pub (which I worked at) free alcohol rules!

KIA · 5 Nov 2011 at 15:28

http://hidemyass.com/vpn/ OpenVPN on port 443 will do the job.

Xerco · 5 Nov 2011 at 17:29

fluff said:
http://hidemyass.com/vpn/ OpenVPN on port 443 will do the job.

cheers i already got a vpn so il pop to my mates and try it out

thanks guys

Locky · 6 Nov 2011 at 09:37

failing that download and install expact shield.

Destination · 6 Nov 2011 at 12:29

Puppetmaster said:
So when you were in education you spent 16 hours a day learning / working?

I paid for my own internet whilst at uni.
We also didn't have student halls, and thosebhat did exist had no internet at all.

GaiabladeX · 6 Nov 2011 at 12:55

My Uni uses ResNet and it's absolute a piece of crap. It filters pretty much all game servers ports (TF2 works though).
Been trying to look for a decent open VPN, one that doesn't give me 300+ ping on League of Legends. I've looked at Hotspot Shield and OpenVPN but it assigns me to Asia and US IP's, giving me terrible ping and lag.
HideMyAss looks the best but costs (and more than some) but I guess you get what you pay for.
I read somewhere you can get in trouble for using an VPN in Uni but that hasn't stopped my 100+GB download this past 8 weeks lol.

And since when were you not allowed to play games but you're allowed to party? What a world we live in...

Locky · 6 Nov 2011 at 12:56

expact shield have you tried that?

233 · 6 Nov 2011 at 13:00

GaiabladeX said:
My Uni uses ResNet and it's absolute a piece of crap. It filters pretty much all game servers ports (TF2 works though).
Been trying to look for a decent open VPN, one that doesn't give me 300+ ping on League of Legends. I've looked at Hotspot Shield and OpenVPN but it assigns me to Asia and US IP's, giving me terrible ping and lag.
HideMyAss looks the best but costs (and more than some) but I guess you get what you pay for.
I read somewhere you can get in trouble for using an VPN in Uni but that hasn't stopped my 100+GB download this past 8 weeks lol.

And since when were you not allowed to play games but you're allowed to party? What a world we live in...

100gig. pah lightweight, i get through that a week at home

Scythe · 6 Nov 2011 at 13:07

This makes me glad I was on unlimited and unrestricted broadband in halls, only 2mb but it was enough. Now I'm in a house and taking advantage of the 16mb whilst everyone's asleep! Quality.

GaiabladeX · 6 Nov 2011 at 13:22

Locky said:
expact shield have you tried that?

Just tested it, doesn't work dude. Had my hopes up when I saw it was HS Shield with UK IP's.

KIA · 6 Nov 2011 at 14:40

Expat shield probably doesn't use port 443. Cough up for HMA. It's well worth it.

http://anonymitynetwork.com is good if you want a capped service with very low latency.

DampCat · 6 Nov 2011 at 15:07

Just buy your own. You can rent a VPS for around £8 a month these days. A Linux box with Squid on makes a great VPN. I was using it from Dubai for unfiltered internet, SSL privacy in WIFI hotspots and BBC's Iplayer from abroad (Server was based in manchester). Win!