Nowadays many big organizations, colleges, schools usually blocks common social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter, MySpace or some selected websites on their networks. It’s annoying for those who are seeking to get an instant access to those blocked websites at their workplaces, college or schools. However, the research indicates that blocking websites on the offices results in the increase of productivity and lower the failure rates too. Well, here are we are going to teach you some proven methods to access blocked websites at work, college or universities.
1) Access blocked sites by setting up manual proxy :
In this method all we need to provide our custom proxy IP addresses to our web browser. So, it will be used to access any websites as an internet gateway. In that case, DNS settings or any blocking gateways will be ignored.
You can get free popular proxy lists from HideMyAss Proxy list.
How to setup manual proxy in chrome ?
To setup manual proxy in chrome browser follow this method
Step 1 : Click on Chrome Settings and select “Settings” Option.
Step 2 : Now click on “Change Proxy Settings” under Network settings area.
Step 3 : In third appearing dialog box, click on the “LAN Settings”
Step 4 : Now under proxy server area, click on the “Use own Proxy server” option and enter your proxy IP address and ports. Now press the OK button and you’re done.
How to setup manual proxy in Firefox?
To set manual proxy in the Firefox web browser please follow the methods below.
Step 1 : Select “Options” from menu bar.
Step 2 : Now select “Advanced” from tab, then click “Network” from sub-tabs. Now click on the Settings button under connection settings. (See picture below)
Step 3 : Now on the next dialog box select the manual proxy configuration and enter details of your proxy servers.
Step 4 : Press “OK” button and you’re done.
2) Use Proxy Surfing Websites to access blocked sites :
Using this method you can easily bypass your current intranet settings and avoid blockage of the websites that you wanted to visit. The most famous proxy websites are listed below.
- http://www.spysurfing.com
- http://www.kproxy.com
- http://www.cyberghostvpn.com
- http://www.hidemyass.com
- http://www.proxify.com
3 ) Use IP address of website to access blocked sites :
You can easily access blocked websites on the unsecure and unmaintained networks using these steps.
Step 1 : Go Start Menu > Select “Run” > Write the word “cmd” and it will open a command prompt
OR
Go to Start Menu > Program Files > Accessories > Command Prompt
Step 2 : Now Write command as follows
ping facebook.com
Note : replace Facebook.com site name with your blocked site name that you want to access.
See picture below, Red rounded bracket contains the IP address of Facebook that is173.252.110.27
Simply enter that IP address in your web browser and go ahead !!
4 ) Use Hola Web browser extension to access blocked sites :
Hola extension is widely used by thousands of users across the world. It helps you to surf the internet anonymously. Head over to the official website of Hola and Download that extension. It’s available for all major web browsers such as Chrome, Internet Explorer. Safari, Firefox, Opera etc.
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5) Use VPN Services to access blocked websites on your network :
VPN stands for the Virtual Private Network. VPN software is used to make a private instance of your internet network and helps you to surf any websites using their proxy servers. There are many popular VPN providers over there including FREE and the premium ones. Here we’ve listed some of the best Proxy VPN servers below.
- http://www.tunnelbear.com
- http://www.hotspotshield.com
- http://www.wippien.com
- http://www.openvpn.net
- http://www.proxpn.com
I hope above methods will be useful to you and you can access blocked websites at your work.
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