Site Blocked At Work

[XD 351 Ute]

G'day,

For a while now, our work internet has been slowing getting different sites blocked so that they can't be acccessed for work computers.

You know, the usual adult sites, and other non-work related stuff.
Some sites, such as E-Bay have been blocked because people were spending too much work time looking at them, which within reason is fair enough.

I've always used smoko & lunch to have a bit of a surf, and used to catch up on what's happening on here.

But that has now stopped, because they've blocked anything with 'forum' in the web site title.

I'm a bit annoyed about it, but there's not much I can do as they will only unblock sites that are work related. Once again this is fair enough as well.

The question is, how can I get around this 'blockage' so that I can still enjoy the forums while at work in my own time?
As above, I seriously doubt that they'll make an exception for me.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ed

[Venomous]

Hehe, welcome to the world of proxies. At school a lot of sites are blocked so i just use a proxy server and that gets me in no worries. One i recommend is www.spondoo.com Always does the job for me.

[Boss 330]

Bugger Spondoo is blocked.

[Mechan1k]

Some network admins are nazis ... and lock down the network very tight indeed.
I am lucky they haven't locked this yet on our network ... but they know on 12-hour shifts that we need to look at other sites to keep us amused .... as long as the work is done ... they don't mind here.

[EA2BA]

I am the network admin at my work, so I doubt this site will ever be blocked ...... LOL

[b2tf]

use the IP address?

[EA2BA]

you can try it http://206.225.84.45/

[Venomous]

Ok, this was my problem, alot of them were blocked, so i just found like a proxie server search engine, and just went through them all, finding out which were blocked and which were not.

[max^power]

im the admin at work too, and i spend more time blocking proxies than any other site

using the ip shouldn't bypass the blocking mechanism, although depends how they are doing it.

[ON_DUBS]

Originally Posted by EA2BA

I am the network admin at my work, so I doubt this site will ever be blocked ...... LOL

haha me too and i'm on it now.

spondoo however, is now BLOCKED :evil3:

[djmaker]

hehehe yeah im a network admin/tech support and we had a big issue with people complaining once all there sites where blocked but we just go through a proxie which blocks them.

[Venomous]

Originally Posted by aussiefalcon

haha me too and i'm on it now.

spondoo however, is now BLOCKED :evil3:

Haha, lol. Althou you cant always keep up with all those proxie sites. *Imitates: :evil3:* Lol

[Falcon_Phill]

Get a decent phone, mine goes on the net perfectly. You might want to take out a second mortgage though, for the rates.

[max^power]

how about just asking the admin if you can have access? it's alot easier than going through a system that will only get blocked anyway.

[AWD Chaser]

Can't block any sites here: Webhosting!

[XPcoupe]

Silly IT guys here block all the sites using a proxy server. So We just removed the proxy setting out of IE. now we bypass the proxy server and get everything.

Also the boss does not know what site we are surfing as it is not logged in there proxy logs.

[djmaker]

heheehe yeah thats the system we are running at my work where do you work??? ..

[ON_DUBS]

Originally Posted by XPcoupe

Silly IT guys here block all the sites using a proxy server. So We just removed the proxy setting out of IE. now we bypass the proxy server and get everything

they must be silly if users can edit their IE settings... :

[jmc-007]

Here is what i did when i was at school.

goto www.google.com

use the translate function. from english to english.

in effect google becomes your proxy.

:P

BTW i am now one of those people who block things. (at my work)

[jmc-007]

http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools

It maybe slower but this should work

Try this :P

James

[XD 351 Ute]

Thanks everyone for all your replies.
I've never heard of the 'proxy' web thingo, so will have a play with it, even if I only educate myself a bit!

The google translator sounds like a good thing, will try that too.

Ed

[XPcoupe]

Originally Posted by djmaker

heheehe yeah thats the system we are running at my work where do you work??? ..

I work for Telstra, that even makes it funnier....

[Dan.]

www.tk

Go to that, and make a new site , eg www.rjjfjhjshahheuud.tk, it is domain redirection, get it to redirect ford forums or whatever you choose. Good stuff, should bypass the proxy stuff...

Dan.

[clontarf_x]

Originally Posted by XPcoupe

I work for Telstra, that even makes it funnier....

Telstra... *hides his iiNet parafanalia* The cool part of iiNet is that everybody is mates. If you ever wanted anything, just go up to the NOC window and ask

[kyro_02]

I hear iinet staff get adsl1/adsl2 for free, so lucky!

tel$tra should give us better internet services... an sell their ports cheaper to other ISP's

http://www.aliveproxy.com/ - i think that's correct, there are heaps there.

www.whirlpool.net.au - great site, internet forum site where everyone man/women and their dogs go to discuss everything relating to the internet I guess.... just watch out for the ones that are high horsed, they bite

[chief]

With relation to google translation. Where their is a will their is a way.