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A few weeks ago I went to my brother-in-law’s to hang out.  I brought my laptop “just in case”.  We ended up sharing internet on my Sprint Mogul with WiFiRouter to the laptop (wirelessly if you couldn’t figure out the ‘wifi’ part) and then used Windows Internet Connection Sharing to share the ethernet port to the XBox 360.  We were on XBox live over Sprint!

So, to recap… Sprint Mogul -> WfiRouter -> Laptop -> XBox -> Playtime!!!

So, I got a new laptop earlier this week.  My only complaint is that the Home and End keys are function keys… apparently I didn’t think things thru and realize that I use the Home and End keys ALL THE FREAKIN TIME!  So I set out to find a way to remap the keys.  Went thru a few links from Google and ran across SharpKeys . It’s a cool little program that allows you to select a key, then a new key to map it to. It writes the changes to the registry and it doesn’t need to be running for the new key mappings to work.

Software requirements:

1. Windows machine on the connection you want to tunnel your traffic to.
2. Cygwin – Linux like environment for Windows.
3. Proxy – Proxy server that supports http/s, pop3, smtp, socks, etc.
4. PuTTY – SSH client used to connect to and tunnel your traffic to your destination machine.
5. Some sort of software you wish to use while bypassing a filter or network monitor.

This post assumes:

1. You will be tunneling your traffic to a machine on your home network
2. You use cable/dsl router on your home network.
3. Your home network external ip address is 1.2.3.4 (use http://whatismyipaddress.com to get your actual external address). You can also setup an http://www.dyndns.org account to get a free dns name for your home network connection so you do not have to remember or constantly check your home ip address.
4. Your home machine’s runs Windows XP or better and the internal ip address is 192.168.1.45. This ip should be a static ip, not a dynamic ip. Should your internal ip change, the router port forward will not work properly.
5. You use Firefox Inernet Explorer is just as easy to setup to use a socks proxy.
6. You understand that if your place of work or school monitors your desktop activity (via screen shots, key loggers, etc), this will not protect you in any way. This simply makes it a bit harder for your admin to see what websites you visit or who you instant message while at work or school.

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