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SoftEther VPN is an open source VPN made by the University of Tsukuba, Japan. If you use the Gate client with it you can access ppl public VPN that way and circumvent your school security, I usually sort by region and log either in Canada, USA or Japan.
Everything you do via VPN are logged on whoever machine you are logging to. So if you log on facebook they can track it down (not that they automatically will do it but it's not hard to do)
http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
If you are more tech-savy you could make your own VPN with openvpn on any linux distro too.
https://openvpn.net/
Edit:
Some people go to college/uni from 8AM to 6PM and have 4 hours of nothing to do in-between 2 classes because their schedule is horrible. I don't blame them for playing a bit of LoL or PUBG/Fortnite
Everything that is related to gaming is blocked. I'm in networking and some of the website I use are blocked by the school 3rd party proxy.
"buy a switch" is probably the most idiotic thing to reply to someone trying to game on SK via Steam. The online for switch will be blocked too and if your game requires internet to work = won't work.
I bring my own laptop to college and I'm still blocked. You are using the school internet connection, bringing your laptop has nothing to do with it.
Normally schools go through other company like Fortinet that has proxy and they deal with blocking what is not "related to school work" like miniclip, steam, etc. While you can just deactivate the wifi connection from your cellphone and use your data to connect to internet normally, computers/laptop usually don't come with 3G connection (though some carrier do sell em, wouldn't recommend it) and games takes lots of bandwidth if you use your cellphone connection.
VPN (Virtual private network) are tunnel like connection to a specific location so you can by-pass any restriction. You connect to internet and instead of passing through the security of the proxy, the VPN pass first and reroute your internet activity to the server you just connected. VPN are highly used everywhere to connect remotely to servers. Even police communication goes through VPN these days rather than with intercomm to reach hospitals and firefghter instantly, they know what car called for X-Y-Z and they are located at corner of A-B street.
You can make your own VPN at home with (most) Linux distribution, it's "rather easy". So if you are at school, you connect to your VPN at home and use your home bandwitdh and security (which is none)
The protocol is called openvpn if you wanna look into it.
I'm trying to educate ppl rather than saying "nope, buy a switch and spend 500$ instead of download 1 free thing to make it work"
Yeah he totally wanted to play an offline game >.>
Can you stop being a nitpick? If you have nothing useful to say you can also say nothing...
I don't see why this is complicated. Download softether VPN gate client > Connect to somewhere else > play Spiral Knights. Problem solved without buying a Nintendo Switch and being a console peasant.
Edit: I suggest a 2 min fix to play the game he wants. You suggest a 500$ fix to play the game he did not asked for. I don't see how this is even a discussion. It's like someone asking where to buy a Slipknot show ticket and you suggest to go watch Celine Dion instead, not same genre, not same range of cost, not same thing at all... >.>
Steam also has a thing where it can ban you for using a VPN to spoof regions, too.
It's best that you just don't.
No offence but I highly doubt that's the case here.
When I get this answer after pointing out a specific VPN and not a generic one, I know they didn't try. SoftEther is open sourced by the University of Tsukuba, it's unlike any other VPN services because it's free and people host VPN servers you can connect to via the Gate Client (it also doesn't use openVPN and built-in VPN from MS as protocol). SoftEther VPN only lets you connect to your SoftEther VPN, if you use a Gate Client, then you join the public one.
VPN bypasses security. I highly, highly doubt some random IT in a school "blocked that", because it's not blockable. A PC only needs access to internet before encapsulating it's packet in SSL on 2nd Layer of OSI model so even the proxy or firewall of the school can't decrypt what packet you are sending. It has a destination and a source in it's header and that's it.
Police vehicle has VPN connection to their central and hospital. They don't use cb anymore because ppl can scan the frequence and listen to their call. It works.
Edit: Yes it's doable... but the knowledge and also the filter put in place for that would be crazy for a school. I could understand something like a bank but a school...? No way in hell.