Which VPN are you using?

I have trouble finding a vpn my company doesnt block

SurfShark worked for a while but now they have that one blocked

I use ProtonVPN

At my last internship, ProtonVPN was able to no be blocked while my paid ExpressVPN at the time was. Not sure if it would still be able to bypass because I'm not working there anymore.

Yeah, games are putting in VPN detection/blocking as well. I just gave up because it kept on messing up my online features

That may be a bigger deal if I actually played much online gaming. My bigger annoyance is some of the restaurants for doing online pickup don't completely stop working with a VPN but don't work quite right so you spend time trying to determine if it's crappy programing on the site, there website just having problems, or if it's the VPN I mindlessly have running in the background.

Boo ProtonVPN blocked 😢

I have to resort to remote desktoping to my desktop at home and browsing via remote desktop

Now days you need to find a way to have the VPN tunnel over HTTPS or something like that to hide the fact it's a VPN to get around some corporate firewalls and government censorship like the Great Firewall of China.

Sometimes it's a premium feature of VPNs but it's a lot of overhead so many don't bother.

just going to protonvpn's site is blocked unfortunately

On ProtonVPN, try both the UDP and the TCP setting. Oh my college Wi-Fi, I have to use one of them because the other doesn't work.

I have my company pay for surfshark premium but they just recently blocked it unfortunately so i cant use it

Oh yeah, you have to download the VPN client before going onto a corporate network because that's a common block you aren't really going to get past without a VPN.

i just want to peruse and be unproductive at work why wont they let me

Have your tried DNS-over-HTTPS? I've never tried using it to bypass corporate firewalls before but maybe so you can download the VPN.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

Interesting I’ll try that out

It doesn't let me access unproductive stuff at school, so i doubt it would at work

The VPN or the DNS-over-HTTPS? Both are designed to let you bypass the blockers not letting you do whatever you want on a restricted network. The encrypted DNS but wouldn't stop some kinds of network based IDS and restrictions. That's where VPNs and proxies come in, they can get past the restrictions which is why company networks often try to block them.

DNS

VPN works fine, you just can't connect

so i could login and connect on mobile data, then switch to school, but i don't bother as their internet is slower than my phone

They use Fortiguard, something like that, it's not just a DNS based thing i think

Not to mention they tried to make us use CAD on computers with i3s and 4gb of ram...

Then the teacher acts all surprised when no one can save without crashing the program

Could have been atom

They are 1st gen i3s too

Yeah atom is infinitly worse

at least the old ones

I used to use an atom netbook, it made Pentium 4 look fast by comparison

Atom n270...

Where did they even get 1st gen Intel computers? Also, Atom isn't completely terrible, I set my mom up with an Atom laptop about 8 years ago with an SSD and 8GB of RAM. For her at the time it was powerful enough to read emails when she couldn't use her desktop when my dad was asleep or to do some shopping while in the living room. Now days thou I'd never recommend an Atom over even a low end AMD CPU.

They've been there since before i was a freshman (senior now)

So i guess they bought them when they were new and never upgraded

Although they have been upgrading most of them to SSD at least, which is smart

The atom i had couldn't even run half life 1, but it did at least do 360p youtube

Are they attempting to run them with Windows 10? Also, the SSD is proablly the only reason they are still simi usable.

Windows 10, yep

There is even a Pentium D windows XP pc as well, but its just for running some legacy yearbook program i think

Doesnt help at all that they have 2 antiviruses and 3 remote monitoring clients at once