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joetempleman   10-05-2007 at 05:40:01 PM

I've just started at university, living in halls and using the universities network connection, and un-kindly (but predictably) they have blocked rapidshare. For those who dont use or know about rapidshare, its an incredibly useful one-click file uploading.

Now I know that I can get past this by using a proxy (I've used some free ones so far) but the download speeds on them are predictably pitiful.

I was wondering what the best solution was for setting myself up a proxy. I don't have real need for online storage particularly, but I do need probably 50-100GB of bandwidth per month. Im in the UK but what would be the implications of it being in america or another foreign country?

If anyone has got any suggestions on service providers, whether I need a VPS or not, or generally how you go about setting up a proxy server that would be great.

Thanks

Joe

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pjumpleby   10-06-2007 at 11:16:38 AM
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the only way i can see it working is if you can create a connection to outside the university halls to a computer with internet access. At my uni this can be done because they have blocked all usually ports except thoughs used by SSH, etc to access the linux servers. its not just the blocking that they do they also monitor bandwidth so even if you tunnel out they might block you because to high bandwidth usage.

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joetempleman   10-06-2007 at 10:24:23 PM
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No, I want to setup a web proxy server. Yes it will be else ware but there is no point using SSH to connect to it. Proxy's all go through port 80 so cant be blocked like that.

And as for my uni blocking me. I know my usage allowance and know what I will be able to download and what I cant. I just need some suggestions on whether a shared web server would be enough for using it for a proxy and what I need to setup for that.

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