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[chinamike]

Posted this in the other internet restriction thread but thought I'd start a new topic incase any of you missed it, good for getting Wikipedia and viewing the BBC News site without a problem, any other site you can think of too.

Here's a foolproof way to get around that nasty lil Great Firewall without paying a penny.

Download Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org
Download Your Freedom http://www.your-freedom.net
Sign up for a free Your Freedom account.
Download Switchproxy Addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org (Not sure if that's correct can just search for Switchproxy Firefox in google and it'll give you a link though)

Set up Your Freedom using the setup wizard when you first install it and load it, should have a little doorway icon which is open with a green background near your computers clock if it's working properly.

In the Switch Proxy toolbar in Firefox enter your schools proxy information if your school runs on one and save that as School, if not just leave it as none, and set up another proxy called Your Freedom in this one enter LOCALHOST in HTTP Proxy, FTP Proxy etc. In the port section enter 8080 for the first four and 1080 for the last one, and click on the button which says Socks5.

Now if you ever come across a site which is blocked by your ISP, School or the Greatfirewall just load up Your Freedom and use the SwitchProxy Toolbar to switch from School/None to the Your Freedom proxy and it will load no problems, it's kinda slow but it works perfectly every time, if you're willing to pay a bit of money you can buy a paid account for Your Freedom which will give you more bandwidth.

Enjoy!

[chinamike]

For those of you that don't like/want Firefox you can do this in Internet Explorer too, just download Your Freedom and set it up with your account details then go to Internet Explorer, go to Tools - Options - Connections click the Proxy Settings button and enter LOCALHOST where it asks for the Proxy and 8080 for the port, in the Socks 4/5 section change the Port to 1080 and you're done.

[lpm100]

Another way is to try the anonymous browser at: http://anonymouse.org

Just click on the English link and it should get you through to just about anyplace..... geocities.....wikipedia, etc.

[erinyes]

lpm100 - I love you!

China Mike - I love you too, but I'm too stupid to make it work on my computer! A bit more stuffing around is required on my behalf. But don't worry I'll get there!