Cannot connect to VPN

[Narey 0]

Hello all,

 

I am currently at College needing to use a VPN to be able to do my work as certain websites that I need are blocked. I previously used Hotspot Shield for my VPN provider as it was free and fast however, my college must have blocked the ports or something that it used.

 

Therefore, I purchased AirVPN in hopes that this would work however it does not.

 

I don't currently know how to change the type of connection or port using the AirVPN client on my Macbook Pro therefore, I turn to the forum for help as I really do need to access restricted websites for my work.

 

I have contacted the IT support team and there's nothing they can do to unblock the websites that I need therefore, I need your help.

 

Thanks,

-Adam

[Staff 10015]

Hello,

 

you can change connection mode in Eddie menu "AirVPN" -> "Preferences" -> "Protocols". Note that Eddie runs on OS X Mavericks or Yosemite. Older OS X versions should run Tunnelblick (another free and open source OpenVPN wrapper with a nice GUI).

 

Try OpenVPN over SSL (in Eddie "SSL Tunnel - Port 443") if anything else fails. You should also get informed whether your node (in the college network) is behind a proxy or not.

 

Kind regards

[Narey 0]

Hello, thanks for the reply.

 

I was able to get into the settings and I literally changed and selected every tick box with no avail.

 

They must have really done a number.

 

Anyway, yeah, it's not working on any of the different connection methods.

 

Please could you advise more?

 

Thanks,

-Adam

[Narey 0]

Anybody got any ideas? I've got tonnes of work to do and I cannot do any within my frees :/

 

Thanks,

-Adam

[Baraka 32]

Try it over a router with Tomato or DD-WRT. That's the only way to be sure.