Hello and welcome to another 12pm Tutorial. This tutorial will teach you how to use Gtunnel
in order to access the Internet securely.
Gtunnel is a program that creates a local HTTP or SOCKS proxy and uses that proxy to send
information from your computer to the GTunnel server farm and then out to the greater
Internet. This means that Gtunnel is encrypting your web session and circumventing any
filters that might prevent you from viewing content online in your area.
Now that you know how it works, lets go get the software.
Open up a web browser and go to www.gardennetworks.org.
Feel free to take a look around the Garden Networks page and when you are ready to move
on click the “Download” link on the right.
Now click the link that says “Click here” and save the file to your computer.
Once the file finishes downloading close out these windows and go to where you saved the file.
The program comes to you in a zip file. If your computer cannot automatically open these
files you will need a program like winzip or 7zip to open it. Go ahead and extract the files.
Inside the folder you will see three files, this is all you need to run the program. Go ahead
and double click the GTunnel icon.
This is the Gtunnel user interface. You can see that it is currently in Standard Mode and that
it says it is not ready. The creators of Gtunnel have decided not to offer the standard mode
for people outside of China, but that’s ok, because they have built in other ways for people to
use the program. Let me show you how that’s done.
First, click on settings. Here you should see Options, Standard Mode, Skype Mode, Gtalk
Mode, and Tor Mode. We’re going to use Gtalk mode but we have to set it up first. Click
the options button.
Under the settings tab I’m going to check the box marked “Clear Internet Explorer cache on
exit” for added security.
Now click the “Transport” tab.
Here you should see two boxes labeled “Gmail” and “Password”. If you don’t have a gmail
account go to www.gmail.com and sign up for one now, I’ll wait.
Now that you have a gmail account enter your username and password here and then click the
button that says “Test”.
When it says “Test Succeeded” you’re ready to go on. Click the OK button.
Click this OK button too.
Now click the settings button again and select Gtalk mode. In a moment your’s Trans State
will go from Not Ready to Ready.
Now click the Internet Explorer button and then select yes.
Before we do anything we should run a test. I’m going to open up an unencrypted web
browser and go to www.checkip.org.
That number is my current IP address.
Now go back to the Internet Explorer browser and go to www.checkip.org.
Hmm, that’s not good, the number hasn’t changed. If this happens to you there is a very
simple fix.
First go to tools, then internet options.
Click the connections tab.
Click on LAN settings.
Check the “Use a proxy server for your LAN” box and then after “Address” enter 127.0.0.1
and after “Port” enter 8081 and click ok and then click ok again.
Refresh the page.
Great, the numbers changed, which means that we are now using an encrypted channel to
access the Internet.
In the lower right hand corner of your screen there should be a small, green version of the
Gtunnel icon. You can click this icon and access many of the different options that are
available on the user interface.
To exit the program, simply click exit.
Now you know how to use GTunnel.