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Originally Posted by Hain
Please expand upon how Tor "didn't work so well." I used Tor quite frequently not too long ago and never had problems with casual browsing. Also, you never explained if you were using a public terminal or had your own laptop and were using their wireless.
Personal experience tells me that remote desktop software is not very practical for this application. You need a lot of bandwidth to transmit and receive the controlled terminal's desktop. Remember that you are polling the screen for changes, and it is sending those images to your terminal.
You mentioned that you could not use a proxy as you "would have to encrypt everything for it to be anonymous." Why? Are you sure that they ban content based on key words? If so, Tor still should work as it uses encrypted connections. My next suggestion is try using a home proxy server, like FreeProxy I suppose, and couple it with Hamachi. Hamachi is great because it creates private virtual networks securely--meaning the connections are encrypted. I used Hamachi to bypass my university's firewall, giving me unlimited access to my file server from anywhere. I know applications can use Hamachi in this respect, since I had an FTP and VNC run through it for my friends and myself.
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I will hve to rsearch proxies and VNC more this week. But, I am looking to have a remote computer that can access the entire internet 24/7. Right now, this seems to be the easy solution to my delimma. Keep in mind that I won't be anywhere close to this computer and don't have internet access at home.
Tor didn't work because I probably in't set it up correctly. It was a few years ago and they might have changed a few things. But, I was unable to tell if my communications were going through Tor, or if I was just on the net with this program running and not doing anything.
Hamachi looks interesting, I will look into it for sure. I'm not really that paranoid, but using something that communicates on port 80, allows me to run programs even when I'm not at the public access point, hard to block, and is easy to setup is what I care about.