proxy server

[donkeyboy]

Evening guys
im going away for a few days wanted to know if any body knew of any good proxy servers so i can watch uk tv when im away

cheers guys

[chroma]

set up your own, leave your computer on.
Problem solved, plus you'll get all the bandwidth you originally have instead of sharing some low rent connection with a million others, that way streaming might actually work

[msocsci]

set up your own, leave your computer on.
Problem solved, plus you'll get all the bandwidth you originally have instead of sharing some low rent connection with a million others, that way streaming might actually work

how do you do that? and would you be able to access all your bookmarks too?

[chroma]

Machine 1 (your home server)
Go to whatsmyip.com and make a not of your EXTERNAL ip address.

Download and install SSHWindows to set up a SSH server on your machine.
Accept the defaults unless you know what your doing.
then open up a command prompt and:

cd\program files\openssh

(it'll be cd\program files (x86)\openssh on 64bit windows)
then you need to configure it.

mkgroup -l >> etc\group
mkpasswd -l -u %username% >> etc\passwd
net start opensshd

Should set up a new SSH session with the current user, the password will be the same as your windows login this way and keep things simple

Once you've got that up and running download and install spoonproxy.
The defaults should be fine unless you know what your doing. theres a 30 day trial but there are *cough*FREE*cough* versions floating around on the usual suspects.

Once thats done you'll need to mess around with ports, 22 is SSH so if youve got a firewall (and you really should) crack the TCP open, you can do UDP as well but i doubt you'll use it.
Do the same with your router config, your going to want to forward port 22 to your computers INTERNAL IP.
(open a command prompt and type ipconfig to get hold of that)

Thats your tunnels endpoint set up...
Unless youve got a dynamic IP in which case look into getting a DYNDNS client or something to link your dynamic ip to a domain name (this will ensure you can always connect if your connection should drop and come back up with a fresh ip, a problem if your a million miles from home)

Computer 2 (your laptop for globetrotting)
Client side just download puTTy.
once you open this (it wont need installing its just a downloadable ssh/telnet client) there should be a pane in the left with config options.
Browse the tree to Connection>SSH>Tunnels.
This will give you options you want to add three ports to be forwarded.
So in source port, enter 80 in destination enter 127.0.0.1:8080
Then add 443 to 127.0.0.1:8081 and 1080 to 127.0.0.1:1080
This enables http, https and socks-5 to transmit through the tunnel, if you need pop or imap or the like then you'll need to forward them through the tunnel too.

Once that's done you'll need to connect.
Scroll back up to session, add in the EXTERNAL ip (or domain if your using dynDNS or somethng) of the networked computer running sshwindows and the like, NOT the internal network address!

Now you just need to configure your browser and the like to use the proxy as usual, linking http to 127.0.0.1:80 https to 127.0.0.1 etc.

you can use your bookmarks if you want to, but you would need to retrieve them via telnet/ssh in puTTy and that would take a little configuring on the server side i imagine.
I cant say as ive tried but it should be fairly straightforward.

[oneman]

hotspotshield

[bonus2010]

@chroma

Absolutely brilliant post mate. I'll be saving this stuff to disk.

[chroma]

My setup at home consists of a tower in the loft with a few TB of storage, running windows XP, with uVNC, some media streaming stuff, tunneling/proxy/FTP software and utorrent/alt.binz

I control that from my laptop via uVNC to download (ive scripted it to download via RSS and run batch files via sched tasks to periodically delete stuff its automated mostly but sometimes you need to get manual access and uVNC is awesome for that)

The tower streams to my ps3, laptops, towers, XBMC old xbox and x360 and means that if im on a network with content blockers i can simply tunnel through my home to get access to anything i badly need.
Means i can also stream audio/video/pictures and fileshare to anywhere in the world if i need to
My router handles dynDNS stuff so ive never really had to bother with an actual client, but its highly recommended, ive got a stable ip but ive had it change on me in the past and lose access from halfway across the country.

[Meat-Head]

Evening guys
im going away for a few days wanted to know if any body knew of any good proxy servers so i can watch uk tv when im away

cheers guys

SUMMARY:-

Member of DK is going away for a 'few days' but wishes not to enjoy the
surranding area, or offend the locals, but infact to watch TV, using a
poxy server, rather than view DK with the 'friends' computer and internet!.