Can anyone help my quest to get H&H to work at university?

[Shask]

I'm bored and would really enjoy gaming in between working and socialising, but I think my university has a restrictive firewall. The only game that I have that works is Counterstrike : Source, and that's apparently because it was in high demand a while back and they configured the firewall to allow it specifically, along with e.g. WoW.

If I try to log in to H&H, it simply times out at the login screen and says in red text "Connection timed out: connect".
I've downloaded an application called Your-freedom and OpenVPN, and configured it so that I connect through this. This allows me to log in, but after I click "Create new character.." or "Log in where you last logged out", my HUD loads fine but then I have a black screen saying "Loading.." and then after a short while I get automatically logged out.

I've also tried another game I love called Heroes of Newerth, it's an RTS, but it simply displays no servers for me to join (both normally and when using the Your-Freedom/OpenVPN apps).

At home, H&H worked fine, here it doesn't though, therefore it's a connectivity issue.

So can anyone help? I'd really appreciate it, I'd be willing to subscribe around $20/month (or ~£15, I'm from the UK) for any programs.

[Professor_Mindscape]

This isn't my area, but I'm pretty sure you're just going to have to ask your techs to allow it like they did for those other games. Being a firewall issue, you may be able to have the app go through a proxy between your uni and the server, but I'm not sure you would be able to do that with the client, or at all.

[sabinati]

haven uses UDP port 1870 and TCP port 1871 if that helps at all

[spectacle]

What you need is a VPN (Virtual Private Network), that will let you tunnel through your university's firewall to do whatever you want on the net. http://vpnuk.net/ seems to have a reasonable priced service.

[Shask]

That vpnuk one worked, thanks man. Did nothing different than the other ones either. Awesome, I get to play again. I just logged in at my hearth fire and I'm now trapped behind a wall as I left a cart with all my valuables (including the key out) in a camp. Wilderness spawn ftw! See you all on the field