I’m not sure if this is the right place for this but here we go!
I’m currently attending a trade school (job corp) in a rural area, and the WiFi here blocks access to a lot of websites I use for personal research, hobbies, and staying connected. Unfortunately, I can’t disconnect from the WiFi because there’s no cell reception in the area. Are there any workarounds or tools that can help me better utilize the internet within these constraints?
Get a VPN. There are lots to pick from.
Would this actually work? Cuz with a VPN I’m still connected to the same internet right?
Yes but actually no
it works.
The IT dude did warn us that he can see when we use a VPN and not to do it… but I doubt he’s constantly checking
he doesn’t have to check manually. he might as well have blocked vpn already.
It’s fairly difficult to detect VPN usage per se, but if there is some competent IT dude there and they have a “no VPNs” policy, it is fairly trivial to monitor whether someone goes to a typical VPN company website and after that, most of their traffic becomes encrypted. That is an easy way to guess that they started to use VPN.
In other words, you might get caught.
Welp… let’s hope not
Well the “trade school” is job corp which is federal so I’d imagine he is competent lol. Any other ways or am I SOL?
The recommended way would be for you to provide them a list of blocked URLs which contain the benign and educational content you want to access, and hopefully they will unblock them.
Fair, but they aren’t all educational. One of the blocked sites is Hulu (not sure why) but I imagine Hulu specifically is blocked for a reason considering no other streaming sites are.