Is there a way to get around a netgear prosafe vpn firewall (fvs 318) that has the http settings turned off?

Question

If a netgear prosafe vpn firewall (fvs 318) is set to turn of http for a period of time everyday on a network, is there a way to get around it, to get on the internet? Can you configure, reroute some settings, or get some software to get around it?

Answer 1

Sure. Http is on port 80. Set up your home computer as a proxy server (EzProxy, for example, uses port 2048, which is almost certainly not blocked by your firewall). Hit your home computer by it's ip address on port 2048 "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2048" where the x's are your IP numbers. It will communicate with the internet on port 80, while all communications between you and it will be on port 2048 (and up).

Simple fix.