alib_i !!! nice one! Def sticky! Some things. I have been experimenting with bypassing firewalls and so on for a while. I def reccomend your freedom link which Alib_i has provided. He directed me to them a lil while back and it has the fastest servers available.
I would also reccomend HTTPORTSN (
http://www.htthost.com/). Its free fast (hell it downloaded more than 4gb of data in one night on my friends corp T1 line!!!). The thing is since its free the server keeps changing a lot. But then hey its free and easy to configure and has SSL support. And it can be configured for news and pop access as well. Been using it for over 2 years and worked damn well for me.
For downloading mp3's use winmx. (
www.winmx.com). Once again tried and tested and I have downloaded over 50gig of mp3 using this and HTTport SN. Heres how you setup. In the main window on the top right you will see settings button click it. You will get this window
In the IP section give it as specified. If your using freedom.net then user socks5 if ur using HTTPort SN use socks4. Now goto the Incoming TCP connection
Choose unable to accept incoming TCP connection. This is mostly the case with most firewalls unless you have NAT or port forwarding enabled. Now select the IN/OUT UDP Packets.
And select the unable to receive or send UDP datagrams on any port option. Once again this is the case with most firewalls.
Now goto the network tab and just click on connect and voila. It should connect.
For all you people using Bit torrents, Best bet is freedom.net and Azerus combination. Azerous supports socks4 and socks5. I would reccomend socks 5. Remem torrents by default are slow and take a lil time to start but once they do are very fast.
Some notes:
Yahoo Messenger does not work with tunneling if your tunneling software is on the same machine where yahoo is running. I queried yahoo and they said this they have disabled due to security restrictions. Easy way to get around it is to set it up on another machine and point yahoo to that.
MSN Messenger works fine including file transfer and Webcams. Tried and tested.
FTP uploads/downloads works just as fine as well. ust make sure you use sock5 instead of socks 4. And use a ftp client such as flashfxp or Smart ftp.
Once again alib_i excellent post!! I hope my two bit helps!
By the way am posting this using http tunneling from your freedom.net....hehehehe!