Hello all, I’m in a weird situation and need some help with it.
I’m currently living at University, where the university itself has blocked certain ports I’ve been told by the network administrators to prevent certain games from going online. It’s starting to affect many games that I play online and I’m getting annoyed and looking for some work arounds –
I recently just purchased and Eero wifi router that connects into the wall ethernet (so it is still the universities ISP and Network) but I’m trying to use the eero as a work around to access the internet for the games, any tips? I can forward ports on the eero app but I’m not sure which ports to forward to play online… Any reccomendations or tips??
P.S. This is happening for games like Phasmophobia and certain minecraft servers.
Use a VPN on your computer.
Consider this: if you are simply adding the eero node like this, eero is still plugged into the university network and the blocking happens upstream of the eero. There is no way that eero will be able to bypass this. And you can’t just use any VPN either; it will need to be a full tunnel VPN (all traffic goes over VPN, not just name resolution).
Eero Pro includes Encrypt.me. It works pretty well on all my devices and computers.
Eero Pro does not include Encrypt.Me; Eero Secure Plus, the add-on subscription service that is optional includes Encrypt.Me. I use Private Internet Access personally and do not trust Encrypt.Me due to their logging policies comparable to those of Private Internet Access. A full tunnel VPN is your only path of recourse, and absolutely no VPN that is free is trustworthy.
I’ve already tried 2 VPN’s, Ultrasurf and another Cisco one that someone in my family has for their work. Do you have any reccomendations for a free one?
That is what I was thinking, just wanted to see if anyone knew anything else that I hadn’t thought about.
There are no good free VPNs.
Did the VPNs fail to establish a connection or was there a different problem?
No they worked. I could go online and search where my ip was and would say somewhere else in the US and still had full connection.