My college has blocked my external web server connectivity?

I have a website and I have paid to an external web server company for hosting the website.Now I can't connect to their server because my college has put in some firewall to prevent access.When I asked IT department of my college about the issue they said they cant help and as such they have not formally blocked it,it is due to some default setting in Router/LAN connection(over which I dont have any control) which is preventing me to connect to the server.And then I said - so fix the issue , they replied its not their concern and they wont fix the issue.And my college is charging exorbitant amount for IT charges monthly which is good enough for anyone to purchase an external 3G unlimited plan in India.What should I do? Website is for non commercial purpose and college IT policy also doesn't prohibit me in maintaining any such website? I feel cheated and powerless in front of college's behavior.Can I take any kind of legal action against them? Or to whom can I complaint?

 

Use a proxy? 0_o

 

All these kinds of things are usually covered by a contract or terms of service that you have agreed to. I am guessing that if a reasonably competent attorney wrote the for the college you are receiving service on an "as-is" basis. In short, the service is probably not offered with any warranty for fitness for any particular service. The fact that you want to use the service in some particular way, is probably not actionable.

You might be better off by pursuing the IT hierarchy going to successive higher levels pleading your case that the modification that you desire will not result in any significant increase in bandwidth nor facilitate anything that makes the college a party to anything of questionable legality.

In the event that you do not prevail, propilot's advice looks good too.

 

Get a new network. Save all of the hassle of the legal system and everything.

 

If you feel like cheated, try bypassing the security or tunneling proxy. It's will take ages to solve this with legal action. I am sure proxy server can fix this. This way you can also speed up your access to resources using caching

 

My problem got solved. I talked to IT department and they after a bit argument gave me the solution.Now I can work perfectly fine.I just wonder the problem was so small that the little bitterness between me and IT department could have been avoided had they told me at the start that I just need to inform them a UDP port number which I can get simply by asking my host server.

 

Only thing I can think of is to use a proxy in this case. I've never been in your boat and seeing as college is more strict when it comes to what you use the internet for, I don't see you having much of a case against them or anyway of getting what you needed to work again. I wish you luck though, many times these things are resolved with time, if not, use a proxy.

 

Have you considered using a VPN? There are free VPNs out there that might help – hotspotshield etc.

 

Once again thank u all....my problem has been solved...I have already posted the same thing before....it was just a port number 21 blocked by IT department in my college.They have now unblocked after my intimation to them.

Thanks....

 

This problem is quiet rare and many of the colleges and universities have implemented such sort of restrictions to use internet under theri premises. However, you can either use proxy or vpn. As i know, that proxy is not much safer option to go with. So, considerably VPN is the most authentic and suitable option to surf the web with absolute freedom and anonymity. So try it dear

 

I wish you would take the time to read the thread before posting something useless. As the original poster mentioned twice, his issue has been resolved,

 

Oops! My mistake...apologise that i have not read the whole thread. i just saw the original post so i though to put my answer in that...