Hello guys! I am a new user when it comes to vpn and stuff. So here’s the thing, I am in my college and here the the college wifi has restricted me from using many websites. And i am using softether vpn on the college wifi. Now the IT people at our college is banning devices which are on vpn. So what should I do? Any advice where I can hide myself from those IT people?? And will softether do the job??
Thank you…
If they are using DPI … with a normal VPN you don’t have any chance.
With OpenVPN over SSH it could work … (TCP Port 443)
Use v2ray +WS + TLS through Cloudflare CDN. The VPN IP will be hidden behind Cloudflare so they can’t block it. So if they block Cloudflare they’ll block off a massive portion of the internet.
College property is for college business.
Just pay for your own internet service for activities which are banned.
Could share amongst a group, maybe $20 a month max?
use a port that’s typically for something like ssl or sftp and the lazy firewalls will fail. Other option is just make an aws account and host your own VPN, takes 20 minutes to do.
If you’re exclusively using a web browser, use TOR and a TOR bridge. It is extremely hard for an enterprise network to block a TOR bridge user, even Chinese and Russian cybersecurity offices don’t have the means to block these.
If you want to use a VPN for services other than websites, you can try a VPN with the option to connect to an obfuscated server. This will route your data through something like a HTTPS port which will look normal to a firewall, however it will send a ton of traffic to one address which will set off flags.
Also as a side note, I’ve never heard of a US college doing something like this so you should probably consider other ways that the college is abusing your money and personal information.
In a business environment (including college), users typically do not uae their own VPN service. Communication from home or between offices or with close business partners, you would go via the business operated VPN.
Also typically in business environment (including college) you have restricted access to the internet. This is because it’s work network and not for personal use. Also for security reasons, the administrators need to have insight into what is going on within their network. Their job is to protect the network and keep it up and running for vital business functions.
Users sacrifice some freedom while on a business network, to help keep it functioning for important business activity.
You might think a VPN is helping security, or that your little usage is insignificant. But if you have 10,000 users and all of them wanting to do their own thing, it is chaos.
I am using softether vpn, whenever i connect it shows an Ethernet symbol instead of the wifi symbol, is it a sign that i am safe?
will softether vpn do the job? whats ur take?
Tor + bridges will get around all but the absolute most determined adversary (even China), so you could use that…but ya, if you have a determined IT department, they will find and squash you.
Back when I was at uni this was not an option for students in dormatories run by the university.
College dorms don’t let you get your own internet, usually personal hotspots are banned too and they’ll find you by noticing unknown wifi access points on campus.
Also while the “college property is for college business” comment is true, it’s still a pretty draconian measure from OP’s college to censor what sites users are allowed to visit then go as far as blocking VPN users who can dodge the restrictions. Next to no universities do this in the US, most of then simply keep logs and if anyone gets DMCA letters and whatnot then the university just hands your logs over.
Dude on Softether VPN , you have to switch to VPN protocol on 443
Softether isn’t designed to obfuscate itself, whereas v2ray is. I highly doubt you’ll break through with softether. Firewall penetration needs a VPN protocol designed to not look like VPN traffic.
how could they know?
“don’t let you” LOL
I’m not getting into the HowTo details here but trivial to do so
I agree stupidly draconian, but overseas cultures are very different.
Like pregnant students forced to drop out…
There’s literally no way to 100% narrow down where an access point is to a single room; I say that as someone who works as a network engineer. If they showed up at your door you’d just say lol nope not me and that’d be the end of it.
Wifi signals can bounce off the weirdest things and show up stronger 100 feet from where they actually are down a hall way.
That being said you are right and in north america at least there’s no way you’re getting a usable for everyday desktop use mobile internet plan.
If your device isn’t banned yet then you can still switch to TOR and you’ll be fine.
Even if they ban your device, you should still be able to spoof your MAC address or something and get on the network since that is how most of them manage banned devices.
Well it’s more of a policy than anything. Certain well known proxies were blocked. And students often got themselves caught by bragging.
In a college dorm, you won’t have access to any incoming lines from an ISP to get your own service to your dorm. Wireless internet options won’t be any better than a mobile hotspot, you would need to connect to this by a physical cable instead of wifi so you don’t set off other alerts. If you break either of those rules then you’ll likely be removed from the college dorms and told to find your own housing which can be a significant problem for many students.