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Simple -- set up a VPN with appropriate routes on a computer at your home, so that when you connect to it all your traffic is redirected over your home Internet connection. 

As added benefit, the school will not be able to monitor what you do over the VPN tunnel --  they will only be able to see the total amount of encrypted traffic between you and the VPN server, with absolutely no clue what it contains.

OpenVPN only requires one open port for the tunnel and can be configured to use any, so it will work in almost any situation.  The only limitations are that you must have an always on computer with an unrestricted connection to host the server, and some networking skills to set it up.

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Originally posted by Adeptus
Simple -- set up a VPN with appropriate routes on a computer at your home, so that when you connect to it all your traffic is redirected over your home Internet connection. 

OpenVPN only requires one open port for the tunnel and can be configured to use any, so it will work in almost any situation.  The only limitations are that you must have an always on computer with an unrestricted connection to host the server, and some networking skills to set it up.

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Awesomeness. Again with the torrents though, it's pretty pointless if you want to take advantage of your schools bandwidth, it will actually use yours up twice as fast, if you get charged for uploads.

the VPN sounds nice, but, as the last poster said, i want to take advantage of my university's bandwidth

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Originally posted by Verte
Again with the torrents though, it's pretty pointless if you want to take advantage of your schools bandwidth, it will actually use yours up twice as fast, if you get charged for uploads.

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This is correct.  It would be smarter to run the torrent client on the home computer and only download the completed files.  However, a VPN will solve all the instant messaging and blocked website woes.

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Originally posted by kryp2nyt
the VPN sounds nice, but, as the last poster said, i want to take advantage of my university's bandwidth

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Sometimes you just don't get everything you want. 

Wouldn't an online secure proxy work?

Like https://proxify.com/

With the https should work, try it also without being secure.

http://proxify.com/

I used it on my work.

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Originally posted by Verte

Where's xen0h when you need him?

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in isolation,

for surfing anywhere use a vpn or ssh server,
few things to try:
unblock a web proxy
     go to www.dot.tk or smartdots or something
     and setup a new url for that site
     (this normally works)

     use a program most of them are crap and full of adware but
     some work in different situations, example = hopster {adw}

     copy tor/vidalia/privoxy and try to configure to work behind the
     firewall

     after entering the url go like this  *url.com.nyud.net:8090
     examples:
                  www.google.com.au.nyud.net:8090
                  www.google.com.au/download.zip.nyud.net:8090



hope I helped

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Originally posted by xen0h
after entering the url go like this  *url.com.nyud.net:8090
     examples:
                  www.google.com.au.nyud.net:8090
                  www.google.com.au/download.zip.nyud.net:8090

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The second one should be like this:
before:
http://www.google.com.au/download.zip
after:
http://www.google.com.au.nyud.net:8090/download.zip

Also some websites can be accessed directly by their IP address and such an access is not always blocked by a filter. You can sue a website like DNS Stuff to find out an IP address for a website.

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Originally posted by Verte
Where's xen0h when you need him?

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who the hell cares?

for msn, use openvpn. for bittorrent, get a client that supports encryption (you'll be unconnectable though.)

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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by Verte
Where's xen0h when you need him?

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who the hell cares?

for msn, use openvpn. for bittorrent, get a client that supports encryption (you'll be unconnectable though.)

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That's no good when you're firewalled properly.

ssh works well they tried to block mine but they failed anf you can run ssh through their http port and own them..
i even told them which port to block and they were still stumped