For a few years now my school has started randomly blacklisted sites including many social media websites (which is expected) facebook, twitter and Snapchat. Recently though they’ve started banning many educational websites like spark notes and others. So in retaliation students started using VPNs to access these websites. The problem is: even with paid VPNs they last about a week before it stops working on the school network. I’m assuming it’s the school IT department that’s doing this. They’re not punishing people for using them or discouraging it at all which is strange.
I’ve seen posts of people setting up a VPN connection using their computer and using it over seas. I’ve been wanting to try this but am not sure how? What program do people normally use? And how much does it cost?
Do they block https for websites? If they don’t look into softether vpn it runs on port 443/tcp just like any site and I doubt their firewall is complicated enough to block this they probably just block openvpn/l2tp/ipsec the basics
What program do people normally use? And how much does it cost?
It is very cheap, since you could use cheap hardware and all of the software needed is open source software, meaning it costs nothing to use.
For hardware, you could use a Raspberry Pi-like device. Then you would install the VPN software (they are a few different ones).
This exercise would teach you how to use Linux and it would teach you much about computer networking.
I suggest using a raspberry pi running pivpn, the setup is really simple and if you don’t have a raspberry pi already you can get them super cheap