Bypass School Firewall Lightspeed. ONLY for actual intelectual computer tech people.?

Question

hey. at my school next year im gettin a laptop from the school. i just wanted to know about any and all ways/websites i can use to bypass the schools website blocker. its called lightspeed. its very annoying, and i wont use it for anything THAT bad. but dont worry about defining too much on it, because im tryin my best to learn about computers. and dont think im stupid anyway, i know i am compared to all the people on here who spent 30 yrs of their lives on computers wen i spent 8 months. i still learned a lot though.

and i dont want to hear ANY of the following smartass remarks:

*you cant, its there to keep you from going to bad websites
*i would tell you, but its there for a reason
*sucks to be you
*just buy your own laptop
*do u want to go to jail?

or anything similar to that.

Answer 1

if your schools have firefox then open it goto tools>options>connection settings> click use manual proxy server and enter ip:200.171.199.131 port:3128

School has ie:

goto file or tools>iternet options>lan settings

and enter the same thing

Answer 2

They're not "smartass" remarks - they're the truth. Those blocks are there for a reason, and a very good one. That laptop was paid for by people like me, and its being provided for educational purposes ONLY, not for you to play around on and have a personal computer to do what you please with. If you want to do whatever you want on a computer, then buy your OWN laptop.



Feel free to attempt to use proxies, etc., but keep in mind that the people who designed this blocker are smarter than you, and most likely thought of everything that a punk kid might try to get around it. It's likely that each computer will call home every now and again to report on its use, and when your school administration finds out you've been playing a little too much on it, you might be sad.



I'm pretty sure the administrators do care - sure they might be proud that you're learning computers, but a computer that you don't own in any way, shape, or form isn't the place to do it. You want to "learn" computers? Do it on your own computer, one that you can screw up.



To give you credit though, I imagine that booting from an external HDD might work, if your laptop supports booting from USB. That's a decent idea and takes a little more work than just "lol omg how do i unblock the websitez thanx."

Answer 3

Setup a VNC client on the school computer and a VNC server on your home computer.. Then remote desktop into your computer at home and browse myspace from school.





School won't be able to tell what you are doing, because well.. YOU ARE DOING IT FROM YOUR HOME COMPUTER MUAHAHAHHAAH HAHAHAHA



May I suggest http://www.realvnc.com/





OR



1:

The first and most common way of using google to bypass blocked sites is just to search for the site and then clicked the "cached" link that appears on google. Easy, simple, and frequently works for static information.



2:

Passing the site through google translator works well as well. Here's the URL to use:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair...

(where blockedsite.com is the site that you wish to visit)



This translates the site from english to english and works because the ip address will appear as google instead of you. Here's a link to tech-recipes passed through the translator as an example. You can actually do this with any langpair. Change en|en in the URL above to spanish by using es|es and it still works.



3:

My unique method that I have not seen described before is to search through google mobile. Google mobile will "convert as you go" very similiar to the translation method above.



Just search for your site with google mobile and click on the link it provides. Here's is tech-recipes brought up through google mobile search. Once again, this will allow you to bypass any blocks because the IP request comes from google not for you.



Like the translation method above, google will continue to "proxy" as you continue to visit links through the site. The only side effect of this method is that google formats the site for a mobile device.

Source(s):



Got this information from another thread as well as me.