How to Unblock Agario

Agario is becoming so popular it might start becoming blacklisted at your work, school, or otherwise. Luckily, on the internet, there’s always a way in. Unfortunately you might need certain privileges in order to accomplish the task, however that shouldn’t be too difficult for you.

Solution 1: The DNS block

More than likely, rather than blocking the individual IP addresses of agario, your institution has installed some sort custom DNS firewall.

This basically works by forcing your computer to look up the IP address of the agario servers by using their monitored and constantly updated (3rd party) DNS service like OpenDNS. This service is updated constantly to be on the lookout for sites that fall into certain categories, thus allowing those who use their DNS services to control who is allowed to lookup what.

Since agario is a popular game, it is on this list no doubt.

HOW TO DO IT: Getting around this type of firewall is simple. All you need to do is open your network settings, select the connection, go to properties, find the section for IPV4 settings, and under DNS, enter in the custom value

• 8.8.8.8

or

• 8.8.4.4

You don’t necessarily need both. You can also add this under IPV6 settings in the same section:

• 2001:4860:4860::8888
• 2001:4860:4860::8844

What are these numbers? They are DNS servers provided by google. If you use them, your computer will use those instead of OpenDNS or whatever else, thus allowing you to look up whatever IP addresses and websites you please.

One road block could be that you don’t have the permission to edit the network tab on the computer itself. If that is the case, there is basically nothing you can do except try to get around that.

Solution 2: The VPN

Since kids and office dwellers are generally very clever, your school (if it is strict) definitely is aware of this quick fix. A VPN is a secured connection that routes all traffic through somebody else.

Basically, you’re making an encrypted telephone call and then asking that person to gather all the agario information and then relay it back to you.

More than likely, if you try and configure such a program, you’ll be caught in the process, because there is a DNS filter on proxy and VPN websites. If that is the case, use solution 1.

SOME PROXIES / VPNS:

Google / Bing Translate. This is an old school method of accessing blocked websites, as the translator is fetching the contents and then giving it to you.

HMA: Famous for its disclosure of information to the FBI for persecution purposes, HideMyAss is one of the more popular free VPNS, which could be blocked by your institution.

HotspotShield: A favorite among many, installing this software is a popular VPN.

Look up free proxies: This is an easy method and involves simply looking up free proxy lists, then copying them into your internet settings under the proxy section. Try to find a site that mentions the speed of each proxy.

Solution 3: Desperation

Other than simply getting around your schools network agario blocks, you can simply use your own! Here are two methods for doing so:

1: Play on your phone: Just download the agario app and hope you’re satisfied with the inferior experience.

2: Use your phone’s Wifi: My personal favorite, if you have a jailbroken iphone, install the mywi app off cydia, then broadcast your own wireless network. Connect your phone to the institution network, then in your phone use the DNS fix above. If it isn’t too laggy to play, congratulations! You’re awesome.

3: City Hotspots: There are some services that broadcast hidden city wide wifi hotspots for a charge of around 10/mo. If this works, it should be pretty awesome. Congrats on having a data plan for your phone at 1/3 the cost, too.

Ultimate Solution: Portable Linux

There’s almost no way for them to block this. For the advanced users, you can install a lightweight linux distro like lucid puppy on a portable flash drive and make it bootable. It runs out of the system RAM and exits without a trace.

I would recommend downloading the program YUMI and using it to install either Hiren’s Boot CD or Lucid Puppy. Hiren’s Boot CD has a ‘Mini XP’ built in. Select the option to make it bootable and install it on either a CD, or USB.

Before you try this, make sure it works on your own computer first. When you’re booting up the computer, keep pressing F8 and try to select your USB. Every BIOS is different. If that doesn’t work, look for the key on the screen to go into the BIOS settings and change the boot priority to make your device top priority.

Once you get it to boot, simply connect to the institute network and then proceed with solutions 1 or 2 above.

Voila. There is absolutely nothing they can do except look over your shoulder. If you’re in some school computer lab this obviously isn’t going to work. If it does, enjoy agario (and everything else on the internet for that matter) as you wish. You can leave without a trace. All of their blocking is going to be on the software level, and this is the ultimate solution.

Lastly, you’re guaranteed to have no monitoring on your station. The only downside? You need to know the network key. Lookup how to reveal the network key in windows and you’re golden.

How to make agario run faster

For this guide we’re going to be using chrome, which typically runs better with few pages compared to Firefox.

Asides from doing the obvious (I’ll list these at the end later) I’ll give the best tips for increasing agario performance and making it run faster. As the majority of you use windows I’ll also share some brief tips on how to make that run faster.

How To Reduce Lag in Agario

1.) Use Chrome Experimental Features

First up, enter in the following address to your web browser, which should then take you to an experimental features page where you can make some important changes.

chrome://flags/

Use ctrl-f to find, now you can make the following changes to this page:

EXPERIMENTAL CANVAS: Enable

ENABLE GPU RASTERIZATION: Force-enabled

NUMBER OF RASTER THREADS: 4

2.) Disable Obvious Things

Clearly, you’ll want to disable all extensions in chrome, and close all other programs on your machine. I like using the extension Ghostery to rid agario of the annoying ads and others, but you’ll find that this literally breaks the game so it won’t load. At this point, open the Ghostery menu and allow the trackers one at a time until it works again.

Doubleclick and Facebook Connect are the only ones that seem to prevent mine from loading. The ads should be disabled anyways now.

One more addon you might want to consider is called “The Great Suspender”. I use it a lot because I open about 30 tabs on whatever browser I’m using. You can set this to suspend tabs in the background if you don’t use them for set amounts of time (mine is 15min). Just make it so it doesn’t suspend youtube so you can keep your music playing!

3.) Increase Your System Performance

Most of you are using windows. Mac, I am not familiar with. Personally, I am running on Arch Linux and I can tell you this is the fastest system there is. If you’re on windows, you can make the following changes:

-Open up MSCONFIG and clean your startup applications

hit [windows-key]-r and this should open up a menu

type msconfig and hit enter

On the startup and services tabs go through one by one and disable all the things that you don’t need. There are a lot of Microsoft services here that you shouldn’t turn off. Basically anything besides these is safe to disable. Make sure you know what it is, but if it’s from a 3rd party company, there’s 90% chance you can disable it. There may be some drivers you need for your network or printer, don’t disable those.

Restart your computer.

-Use this program

I used to use a free program called Advanced Systemcare when I was running vmware to play 2 instances of Minecraft on my computer simultaneously with a friend. This program has a feature that boosts the performance of your computer (sounds sketchy I know). It disables a lot of background services that you don’t need temporarily.

4.) Set Chrome Priority to high

This one is simple, just open up the task manager by right clicking on the taskbar and clicking “open task mananger”. Find chrome on the list of processes. Right click it, and set the priority to high. Don’t go with realtime, it’s unbalanced and stresses your machine past being useful.

If you need even more power, you can disable the processes one at a time on the processes tab that didn’t get disabled in step 3. You can even end explorer.exe after you open up chrome, then run it again after you’re finished through task manager.

Don’t disable any critical Microsoft processes that you don’t know what they do. If you don’t know what something is, you can right click it and open the file location to investigate.

5.) Buy a video card

You probably have at least one friend who knows a lot about computers who can help you.

A video card isn’t that expensive and will help your agario performance massively. To put it into perspective, rendering the game with your computer alone is like painting a picture with a single paint brush. Rendering the game with a graphics card is like painting a picture with as many paint brushes as your computer has pixels.

6.) Switch to Arch Linux!

This one is definitely not for the faint of heart, but I know there are those of you out there who have not tried Linux yet but are definitely capable. (Don’t do this if you’re not a computer g33k)

If you have the skills to run a web server and edit html or php then you have enough skills to make the switch. Initially there will be pain for about a month until you get used to it. However, in the end you will be glad you made the switch.

I say Arch Linux in this example, because Arch Linux is basically a bare bones Linux installation that allows you to add modules as you need them. It is very fast. If you’re a serious gamer, you might want to try it out and see if using Wine actually impacts the performance as much as it did in the old days- on Ubuntu in high-end 3D games (which I don’t play). Get a GUI like GNOME or otherwise. On Arch Linux with the modern versions of wine, the performance VERY likely out does Windows nowadays- last time I checked even the old clunky Ubuntu with Wine was starting to outdo Windows. Personally, I can say that on the few games I play it performs smoothly on higher graphics than my old Windows which froze at lower graphics.

This last step doesn’t really belong on this guide, but the power of Linux justifies all! 99% of things for Linux are free, and it deserves the support of this random agario guide! Go Linux!

Before you go, check out my very popular agario complete strategy guide for over 100 tips and strategies!