Freegate is a proxy tool for Windows users that was initially developed by DIT-INC to bypass Intenet censorship in China and Iran.
You can download the software for free at http://us.dongtaiwang.com/home_en.php or at http://www.download.com/ — just search for "Freegate". The name of the executable file changes frequently and randomly to get around filters, and may look like a short series of letters and numbers(e.g. "fg677pa6.exe").
After you download the stand-alone file, double-click it to get started.
When you launch Freegate, you’ll see its main window (above), and Internet Explorer will open the page http://127.0.0.1:8580/loc/phome.php..., which will confirm that you are using Freegate correctly through an SSL-encrypted tunnel. The URL is the IP address of your own PC and only works when using Freegate.
If all has gone well, you can start browsing normally using the automatically-opened Internet Explorer window to get around Internet censorship.
Under the "Settings" tab in Freegate, you can choose your interface language — English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Farsi and Spanish. Under "Status", you can track your upload/download traffic through the Freegate network. The "Server" tab allows you to pick from several severs, one of which may be faster than your current connection.
If you want to use another application with Freegate (for example, the Firefox browser or the Pidgin Instant Messaging client), you will have to configure them to use Freegate as a proxy server. The IP is 127.0.0.1, and the port is 8580.
