How to get around a school firewall block?
 

My school's network only allows html access to the internet through Firefox or IE. I would like to be able to get FTP or PS to work for downtime between classes. Any ideas?

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Re: How to get around a school firewall block?
 

logmein.com

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it's not practical to do what you as. this question is asked often in the CTH forum.

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This looks interesting. Can anyone confirm that this works well and is safe? Would it be possible to use from a schhol/library/hospital with a firewall or websense blocker?

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This looks interesting. Can anyone confirm that this works well and is safe? Would it be possible to use from a schhol/library/hospital with a firewall or websense blocker?

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Ayep -- works great. I've used it to run Stars and FTP tables on my home computer from anywhere. FTP is a little laggy but then what's new. Stars works like a charm. Logmein also has a full screen option that makes it look just like windows remote desktop. Highly recommended...

Chips

Re: How to get around a school firewall block?
 

another vote for logmein as being very good, but work comp blocks some stuff and it doesn't work for me here [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: How to get around a school firewall block?
 

Quit school & become a professional online poker player. .02

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proxie, it aint your computer who cares =)

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yea, if logmein doesn't work, set up some kind of proxy server to connect to ur home computer, it's kinda slow, but it's the only way i can connect from work as the IE here doesn't let me

Re: How to get around a school firewall block?
 

you can probably do a search and find a list of established ones... not the safest way to connecte but again just dont do banking or play poker... if you are just looking for better ways to surf the web.

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Info from PS:

PokerStars' software uses one of two ports by default. These ports
are 443 and 26002. In addition, the updater software uses port 80.

Sometimes either an ISP or a personal firewall will be blocking one of
these ports. You may be able to work around this blockage by changing
the port that PokerStars' software uses from one to the other.

To do this, you will need to change a line in the text file USER.INI.
You will find this file in the PokerStars folder which is normally
found in the Program Files folder on your primary hard drive (usually
the C: drive).

Make sure you have closed the PokerStars program. Load USER.INI into
Notepad or your favorite text editor (don't use a word processor). If
there is not a [Connect] section, add one, followed by the userport
line with the port number.

Here is how the [Connect] section should look after your
modifications:

[Connect]
userport=443

You may interchange 443 and 26002 above, trying either one. As port
443 does not seem to be working for you, you may wish to change to
port 26002 instead.