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For the past couple weeks, my school's internet has been super slow, occasionally completely locking up (probably because of the web filter). We've somehow discovered that going to Ben and Jerry's website in one tab and the school's website in another (or sometimes either/or by themselves) somehow "unlocks" the internet. Usually, the fix is to just go to the school website, but sometimes that doesn't work, but if you open Ben and Jerry's in the second tab, it'll work. Apparently one of our teachers figured this out on accident, although I've no idea how. This is possibly one of the strangest things I've ever heard of. Anyone know how in the hell this works???

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4 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

For the past couple weeks, my school's internet has been super slow, occasionally completely locking up (probably because of the web filter). We've somehow discovered that going to Ben and Jerry's website in one tab and the school's website in another (or sometimes either/or by themselves) somehow "unlocks" the internet. Usually, the fix is to just go to the school website, but sometimes that doesn't work, but if you open Ben and Jerry's in the second tab, it'll work. Apparently one of our teachers figured this out on accident, although I've no idea how. This is possibly one of the strangest things I've ever heard of. Anyone know how in the hell this works???

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That is so random lol what the fuck?

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6 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

For the past couple weeks, my school's internet has been super slow, occasionally completely locking up (probably because of the web filter). We've somehow discovered that going to Ben and Jerry's website in one tab and the school's website in another (or sometimes either/or by themselves) somehow "unlocks" the internet. Usually, the fix is to just go to the school website, but sometimes that doesn't work, but if you open Ben and Jerry's in the second tab, it'll work. Apparently one of our teachers figured this out on accident, although I've no idea how. This is possibly one of the strangest things I've ever heard of. Anyone know how in the hell this works???

I don't think there is real explanation.

 

But you can make a program that pings both of those websites in Batch and call it Unl0ckr

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So your school's web filtering policies can be circumvented simply by going to ben and jerrys web site? That's got to be the strangest thing I've read on here... and that's saying something...

 

Who's going to be the first to report this to school's IT so they block Ben and Jerrys web site so you can't get to porn?

 

 

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Is your school website hosted on a lan network or maybe even a server inside of your school?

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Just now, steezemageeze said:

For the past couple weeks, my school's internet has been super slow, occasionally completely locking up (probably because of the web filter). We've somehow discovered that going to Ben and Jerry's website in one tab and the school's website in another (or sometimes either/or by themselves) somehow "unlocks" the internet. Usually, the fix is to just go to the school website, but sometimes that doesn't work, but if you open Ben and Jerry's in the second tab, it'll work. Apparently one of our teachers figured this out on accident, although I've no idea how. This is possibly one of the strangest things I've ever heard of. Anyone know how in the hell this works???

Did you check speeds before and after Ben and Jerry using speedtest.net ?

Because sometimes my connection speed goes down, all I have to do is go to speedtest.net, fill up the bandwidth, the speeds are restored

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Does your teacher worship satan?

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Da crap....

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26 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

I don't think there is real explanation.

 

But you can make a program that pings both of those websites in Batch and call it Unl0ckr

Sadly we have Chromebooks

23 minutes ago, Kirky2k15 said:

So your school's web filtering policies can be circumvented simply by going to ben and jerrys web site? That's got to be the strangest thing I've read on here... and that's saying something...

 

Who's going to be the first to report this to school's IT so they block Ben and Jerrys web site so you can't get to porn?

 

 

No, you misunderstood. It doesn't circumvent the web filter, our internet just hangs occasionally (like, we're connected to the wifi, but we don't have internet access) and the only way to unfreeze it is to go to either one of those sites

23 minutes ago, MarthiniL said:

Is your school website hosted on a lan network or maybe even a server inside of your school?

I think, but I'm really not sure

22 minutes ago, I am an SSD said:

Did you check speeds before and after Ben and Jerry using speedtest.net ?

Because sometimes my connection speed goes down, all I have to do is go to speedtest.net, fill up the bandwidth, the speeds are restored

I can't, before visiting Ben and Jerry's I have absolutely no internet access.

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3 hours ago, steezemageeze said:

Sadly we have Chromebooks

No, you misunderstood. It doesn't circumvent the web filter, our internet just hangs occasionally (like, we're connected to the wifi, but we don't have internet access) and the only way to unfreeze it is to go to either one of those sites

I think, but I'm really not sure

I can't, before visiting Ben and Jerry's I have absolutely no internet access.

Is the school website http or https?

 

just check ben and jerrys and it's http so could be that other websites you've tried are all https, and for some reason the web filter rules will block encrypted https data? And then it just goes back to working after some http data...???

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8 minutes ago, Hamosch said:

Is the school website http or https?

 

just check ben and jerrys and it's http so could be that other websites you've tried are all https, and for some reason the web filter rules will block encrypted https data? And then it just goes back to working after some http data...???

Pretty sure its HTTP. That could have something to do with it I guess

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