School Servers?

[z123killer]

If I was logged in on a school email but was my personal network, would browsing data go through school servers or my ISP's servers?  This might sound like a stupid question but I don't know much about servers and netwroking.

[megaant4]

Is it a school provided laptop that you need to log into using your school provided username?

[z123killer]

Just now, megaant4 said:

Is it a school provided laptop that you need to log into using your school provided username?

Nope, personal laptop

[Oshino Shinobu]

It depends how your school's email servers are configured (and what you were doing). If you're accessing emails, you would be going through your school's servers if they have their own email servers. If they simply have their own domain for the email addresses and use someone like Google's servers, then you'd be going through Google's servers. Either way, the data would be passing through your ISP's network and servers first, as with any data being sent or received from the internet (from/to your personal network). 

 

If you're just using something like a Gmail account logged in through Chrome (for example) and accessing Youtube, nothing will be going through your School's servers. 

[megaant4]

Just now, z123killer said:

Nope, personal laptop

Then no, it will not go through your school servers.

[TheKDub]

1 minute ago, z123killer said:

Nope, personal laptop

 

If you're not on the school network, and there's no vpn set up with the school network, they won't be able to monitor any of your traffic. (Unless they've got a program on your laptop for doing such)

[z123killer]

7 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Well if you're on chrome and signed into chrome, then yes they can see your history. But if you're just signed into your email and not chrome itself, then you're fine.

 

Oh ok, it's because I thought if you signed into a school email account, everything will go through their servers. 

[ssfdre38]

If all you do is just pull e-mail from their servers onto your e-mail program or a website, then all they will see is just the e-mails. Now if you are at home, its your ISP and not their network at all. If you are on their campus and on their network then yes it will be on their network and they will be able to see everything that you will do if they log the traffic per mac address connection. Now if you use a vpn (virtual private network) from your college campus to your server at home, then all they will see is encrypted traffic and they wont be able to see what you do. This is what i do when im out is have my phone over vpn to combat any type of traffic gathering.

[z123killer]

1 minute ago, ssfdre38 said:

If all you do is just pull e-mail from their servers onto your e-mail program or a website, then all they will see is just the e-mails. Now if you are at home, its your ISP and not their network at all. If you are on their campus and on their network then yes it will be on their network and they will be able to see everything that you will do if they log the traffic per mac address connection 

 

It was my own computer on my own internet. I logged into their Google email, and my question is, would they be able to see my browsing data, the period that I was logged in on their Google email because when you log into google email, you get logged into google too.

[ssfdre38]

that is not true. If you have your own google account and you set up your chrome to that e-mail address and not your school's e-mail address then it will not be track and you can just have your school e-mail account as a second gmail account that you can access without pass. If all you do is just log into your e-mail and its google then your school can not track your network at all as google does not offer those services at all and yes i know cause i have set up multiple google apps accounts for schools and google makes sure that they can not see any of your personal traffic. Also just a side note, Google doesnt set up e-mail servers on the site that is trying to get google apps set up for e-mail or other services. All data is stored in their server farms across google's network and it does not get shared with anyone.

[leadeater]

2 hours ago, z123killer said:

It was my own computer on my own internet. I logged into their Google email, and my question is, would they be able to see my browsing data, the period that I was logged in on their Google email because when you log into google email, you get logged into google too.

Since the school email is provided by google then no they wouldn't be able to see anything, not even the school emails you read.

 

If the school ran there own email servers then they would be able to see that you logged in to check emails etc but nothing more.