KODI Blocked At work?

Kodi Blocked At Work?

I have a windows 8.1 machine running krypton. My Internet connection is hardwired (cat5 ether net cable) and is filtered through company servers/firewall that I have no access or privileges to.

I can browse (most of) the Web through chrome.

Nothing in Kodi that requires internet is working. Tried installing new add-on to verify this and got:

Couldn’t retrieve directory information…

I suspect that that is intentional on the part of my company’s IT department.

Are there any way to verify the problem?

Edit: I can access the 1st repo as well as the official repo through the chrome browser.