The school tech department found it fitting to block facebook. We don’t.

Here’s how to fix it if you are using Windows (school laptop or your own, doesn’t matter). It looks like a long process but in reality it takes less than two minutes and only needs to be done once. The only reason its so long is because we tried to make it relatively idiot-proof  . Click any of the images to enlarge them. Ready? Let’s bring back in-class facebooking!

1) Click Start, and then go to Connect To, and then click Show all connections

2) Right click on your wireless connection (usually Wireless Network Connection) and select Properties.

3) Scroll down in the little list till you see the option TCP/IP. Select it and press the Properties button.

4) Now select “Use the following DNS server addresses”

5) Enter the two numbers below:

64.102.255.44
128.107.241.185

Your window should now look like this:

6) Press OK.

7) Press Ok and close the window.

8) Facebook and other blocked sites should now be working. Remember to grin stupidly when passing by any of the Tech Support in the hallways 

The one side effect is that whenever you want to access moodle you will have to change it back, or alternatively you can access it through a proxy, such as http://www.dingo.us.to/

Another alternative is you could just use facebook through the site mentioned above, but generally proxies are really slow.