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Setting up proxy server at home

  • 04-03-2012 04:17PM
    #1
    JoseJones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 612 ✭✭✭


    I'm trying to set up a home PC as a proxy server so I can connect to it from abroad and watch RTEplayer. Does anybody know the best way of going about this? I have been following the steps from here: http://www.linquist.net/geek/proxy but with no joy. Whenever I try connect using putty, nothing happens and it just times out.

    Has anybody ever done this before? I thought it would be relatively simple but clearly I'm wrong! The PC I have at home runs windows 7 and connects to the internet through a UPC cisco epc2425 router.

    Any help much appreciated!


Comments

  • #2
    johnciall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭johnciall


    If you have a spare PC sitting about you can Install a pretty basic Ubuntu system running openssh, once you get everything config'd [port forwards on your router, SSH confix ont he ubuntu box] you can connect & proxy your connection through it quite easily


    I run the same setup from my house, make a point of running any unencrypted wifi connections through it


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