So since Kickoff will be streamed on Twitch, which is surely blocked on our school wifi, does anyone have any suggestions on how else we can watch it? Any re-streams or ideas?
If you want to go the shady route, use a VPN like Psiphon but you didn’t hear that from me
Contact your school/district IT department, or have a mentor contact them
Sometimes you can get away with either A) Remotely connecting to a PC outside the school network, or B) Take the twitch stream, Load it on a PC outside the school network and stream that to somewhere like youtube or a unblocked live video platform. You might also want to ask if there is a hidden staff network that someone can get on, Some staff networks at some buildings, (Like ours) have the teacher network mostly unfiltered.
Ssh tunnel if anyone has a server available
Give rabb.it a shot. It’s used to watch tv shows and stuff together usually, but you can use it as a pseudo-vpn, it’s basically a virtual web browser.
A remote desktop application should work too
The Blue Alliance streams it as well.
Bring in a laptop running windows and have Betternet installed on it before you get to school. You can open up the vpn and access twitch.tv while at school. Don’t do stupid things with the power of betternet/vpns pls
Free VPNs will probably not be fast enough to stream it, and since the block is probably DNS based you could avoid having to use a VPN, which would inevitably slow it down. In that case I would try changing your DNS server (I would recommend this one: https://www.opennic.org/), you will probably need to bring a laptop from home to do that, however they probably redirect requests to other DNS servers back to theirs, in that case you should try DNSCrypt (https://dnscrypt.org/), that can sometimes be difficult to setup though, so it might just be simpler to use Yandex browser, which has DNSCrypt built-in and can be enabled easily. (https://browser.yandex.com/, Protect: secure DNS requests | Browser)
You could try using Tor Browser, maybe
Ultrasurf beta is the browser extension for chrome that I use
Psiphon and tor are probably the only 2 free VPNs/proxies that I would recommend. I wouldn’t trust either of them enough to log into online accounts through them though.
We have literally not yet gotten our team website unblocked yet, and we requested that last build season. There is no way we can get it Twitch.tv unblocked for the entire school within 1 day.
Ill def. try remote connection. Streams are almost universally blocked, but remote connection should work.
But if twitch is, It wont matter, TBA uses an iframe to embed twitch to that page, Meaning that if https://twitch.tv is blocked, It will be blocked in TBA Gameday, Even if you can access it.
Ultrasurf chrome extension if it’s not blocked. Usually works! Or, remote into your home computer from school.
There is no way we can get it Twitch.tv unblocked for the entire school within 1 day.
Not with that attitude! /s
Here’s what you do. Tomorrow, you go to school and, with your teacher, you chase down whoever’s the top IT person a mortal can dare approach. You’re going to explain your needs, along with printouts from the FIRST website explaining that Kickoff is streamed over Twitch, and this is important for the team’s project.
Now, this IT person may not be the one that can do it…but there’s a decent chance they know the power structure better than you, and they may know who to contact. So you beg them for this one favor to save the start of the season, and you hold your breath.
And after all this, when your team T-shirts arrive you’re taking him or her one either to thank them for their help in getting it unblocked or for taking a swing.
IT staff are like secretaries and custodians: they can make your life really easy, or they can make it really, really hard.
Most free VPNs are generally a bad idea and they’re usually slow. They’re especially fishy when they’re a browser extension…
Ill look into Ultrasurf. But the remote connection should def. work.
Meh, might work if school wasn’t cancelled tomorrow and if I still went to that school xD Also, I am pretty sure we outsourced most of the IT stuff, so our “IT guy” is the person who basically just calls in the repair person when a computer breaks.
We shall see…