My university has been blocking fuckton of websites and even the vpn servers.
I have used trial for NordVpn, express vpn, and atlas vpn and none of them work. I am doomed. All proxy servers, Tor, vpn services all are blocked. I can’t even open gaming forums and torrent sites . Some dns are blocked too.
None of the online games work.
I even tried 1.1.1.1 warp and this is not working either. Fuck my university.
What do I do now? I have paid for Mobile Data but although being 4g it runs on 200kbps fuck Airtel. So the lag is real pain in ass.
What kind of university would block absolutely everything like that? We’re talking about adults doing studies and if they’re playing RuneScape or Minecraft then so what? It’s only their future they’re ruining and wasting money on university.
Unless you pay for internet from university then you may need to look into better mobile internet. The university probably doesn’t want to deal with everyone’s personal browsing habits/usage. If you pay for internet from your university then you may want to read the active TOS or what ever agreement you signed to get their internet. Ultimately it’s their internet service, not yours.
Assuming it was working before, they probably run reports of what is using their data and where people go then block them.
If your really hell bent of using their internet and get through their firewall, try remoting into a computer outside the network buuuut your probably going to run into latency issues again.
lol you know whats funny i am in a university a design student and they have banned websites which helps us research and find reference for designs as adult websites.
I’m surprised ExpressVPN doesn’t work. Make sure you’re using the Lightway protocol, and try a few different locations.
Another good way is to set up your own VPN server on Digitalocean or something. Use a VPN protocol that is good at escaping detection. I recommend Outline VPN (getoutline.org). It’s an open-source project that uses the Shadowsocks protocol and aims to provide censorship-free Internet to journalists in certain countries. It’s not a VPN service so you need to set it up on your own server.
You can rent out a remote server, run OpenVPN on it and connect your computer to it. There are YouTube tutorials on it, find a service that hosts closer to you to avoid latency issues.
Also I doubt they have blocked Tor. Tor has more than 4000 guard relays (aka entry nodes, aka the node your PC connects to directly). You can configure Tor to use a certain entry relay or use entry relays from a specific country. Try out a few of them and some might work.
Yeah I also had a similar issue, however on the VPN app you can choose what protocol it uses (Wireguard or OpenVPN) and Wireguard is usually the default because it is slightly faster (iirc it may be more secure) but if you try to connect to OpenVPN UDP/TCP then it doesn’t get detected as VPN so I was able to access a lot of different sites on OpenVPN but not Wireguard.
On the topic of DNS, I used dns.adguard.com as my adblocker on mobile, but it simply doesn’t work and I am not aware of a workaround.
I can connect to TOR when I’m connected to VPN but not without it.
Torrenting works fine for me but I would definitely go to Android system settings and make sure that the device doesn’t connect to the internet unless the VPN is connected (not on the VPN app, on settings itself) because if something leaks that’s an interesting conversation you’ll have with the IT department.
I hope you do get a solution because life sucks if you can’t access the content that you want.
I’ve found that on my laptop (not my phone) I can activate my free Windscribe vpn under stealth mode (apparently disguises activity as html somehow) and that connects on my school wifi, which also blocks all other vpns for me. I just needed to install and sign into the app on a different wifi.
I’d say you’re setting yourself up for a world of IT hate. If you’re using your Uni ID to login, do not do anything shady; that includes VPN, Torrents, etc. you might be inviting the IT staff to look into your account because trust me, each time a significant block occurs you can guarantee there’s a log of it somewhere. If it’s an open Wi-Fi however, and if you’re not doing anything illegal, routing through a personal VPN on a cloud server should be (in theory) ok.
Look dude I’m gonna get downvoted as fuck for this I’m sure. But I work in a university networking department and we block shit for a reason. Especially as you mentioned torrenting sites.
Do you have any idea how much of a ball ache it is to deal with a student torrenting is. It’s a whole multi week sometimes month process, with calls to copywrite holders, executive university staff, lecturers, student admission and the student.
I get it’s frustrating to be blocked from shit, but a university is there to teach and learn from not for you to torrent the latest movie, or get high ping in your games. We have limited bandwidth too, and quite often running on a shoestring budget.
Maybe do that stuff in your own time on your own network. Not the universities one.
P.s. I’m talking about the campus network not the Dorms network that’s often set up by a completely different agency and should be in place for large downloads and games. I still wouldn’t recommend torrenting on it though, been passed far to many investigations on students for that.
