How to unblock the Internet in a student residence

Say goodbye to your childhood!

You’re 18 and you did your A levels. You have just joined the university and now, it’s time to say goodbye to your family. Freedom is finally coming, your eyes are sparkling to this single idea and you can’t wait until the big day. The day before, you are packing your suitcases and you can’t forget anything! Especially your laptop computer (you’d be lost without it)!
You are ready to face your first academic year, when you spend more time geeking and going out than studying.

Weeks after the beginning of the academic year, you’ve realised you’re studying more than you’re having fun. You’ve got a lot of homework to do and you don’t have had the time yet to get a drink at the pub in front. You miss then your old life: the food that your mother was cooking for you, the moments when you sat back and waited while your father was vacuuming… But above all, you miss your high speed Internet connection thanks to which you were keeping yourself busy. You can’t watch your favourite TV shows or play “World of Warcraft” online anymore. You think there’s no way to fix it, but…

But what?

If you really want to get your old life back, then read carefully what is following!

First, you have to know that you are not the only one to have access to the Internet from your home: your neighbours can also connect. Consequently, because the number of users is high, the connection is not always good. Besides, many websites are blocked, in order to prevent abuses (illegal downloads, for example). And because you’re fed up with waiting until the weekend to watch the last episode of “How I Met Your Mother”, you really wish you fixed this problem. And you can, with a VPN.

But what is a VPN? Well, it allows you to change your IP address according to the websites you want to visit. IP address? It identifies your computer when you connect to the student residence’s network. As you are studying in France (unless you are in a foreign country), you just have to choose a French IP address.

Another advantage for getting a VPN is that nobody can know what you are doing online. You are then anonymous. Moreover, you have a secured connection, so a hacker can’t pirate your email address, for example.

Now, you can get your old high speed Internet connection back thanks to the VPN!