How to bypass geoblocks on your PC
PCS AND MACS NATURALLY GIVE YOU THE MOST FLEXIBILITY WHEN IT COMES TO BYPASSING BLOCKADES. ALL THE OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
PCS AND MACS NATURALLY GIVE YOU THE MOST FLEXIBILITY WHEN IT COMES TO BYPASSING BLOCKADES. ALL THE OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
CHANGING YOUR PC’S DNS
If you’d just like to be able to access the sites that might be restricted by your ISP, the simplest thing to do is change your PC’s DNS server. All you need to do is find your computer’s DNS settings and enter a new DNS number.
ON WINDOWS, JUST FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
* Right click on the Start button and select Network Connections. * Click on ‘Change Adapter Options’. * Right click on your network adapter (whichever one you’re currently using, Ethernet or wireless) and select properties. * Find ‘Internet Protocol Version 4’ (TCP/ IPv4) in the list and left click on it to select it. Then click Properties. * Switch the radio button to ‘Use the following DNS server addresses:’ and enter 8.8.8.8 in the preferred DNS server field and 8.8.4.4 in the alternative DNS server field. Click OK and you’re done.
ON MAC OSX, THE PROCESS IS THUS:
* In System Preferences, click on Network. * Click on the first item on the list (which is the network you’re currently connect to) to select it, then click on Advanced. * Click on the DNS tab. Then click on the + button under DNS servers to add a server. * Add 8.8.8.8 and then add 8.8.4.4. Click OK.
Once applied, you should now have access to any sites blocked by your ISP.
USING TOR ON YOUR PC
Lots of people use Tor as an all-round privacy shield. Even a VPN doesn’t provide complete anonymity, since the VPN provider still knows what you’re up to. But Tor provides complete privacy, bypassing nearly any kind of block.
These days it’s remarkably easy to use, as well. You just download the Tor browser and most of the technical stuff happens in the background.
Head to www.torproject.org. Click on the link to Tor Browser. Then download it for your language and platform.
The Tor browser is simply a modified version of Mozilla, tuned for maximum security and using the Tor network in the background. When you’ve downloaded and installed it, start it up.
You’ll see an initial connection box. It shouldn’t take long to connect.
Once you’ve connected, the Tor main page will appear. You can now just browse the internet as if you were using any other browser. As a check, you can head to www.
iplocation.net, which will tell you your current apparent IP address and geolocation. It should be different from your normal address, and the geolocation will show the location of whichever Tor exit node you’re using (which could be anywhere — it’s more or less random).
If you want to use Tor to appear to be from a specific country, then you’ll have to edit the torcc file, a configuration file that’s kept in the directory where your Tor browser application is installed. In Windows, you can generally find the file in ‘This PC/Desktop/Tor Browser/Browser/ TorBrowser/Data/Tor’.
Open the torcc file up in Notepad. Then add two lines to the end of it: ExitNodes {countrycode} StrictNodes 1 Where countrycode is the two-letter code representing the country you wish to appear to be from. You would use {us} for the United States; {uk} for Britain and {au} for Australia, for example. A full list of country codes can be found on the Tor Project site.
Save the file (remember it does not have a .txt extension) and next time your start the Tor browser, you should appear to be from that country to sites you visit.