Ubuntu Networking :: Get A 'Connection Refused' Error

I need to browse the net more securely and bypass throttling by an infrastructure-dictator by creating a SSH Tunnel directly to my internet service provider and use it as proxy.

I tried both a dynamic and local tunnel, was a able to connect to the server and log-in just fine, but when I tried to surf I get a 'Connection refused' error.

Here's what I tried:

Code:
ssh -D 8022 user@tunnel.host -N
ssh -L 8022:tunnel.host:8080 user@tunnel.host -N
(not at the same time of course)

Then I set 127.0.0.1:8022 as proxy in browser settings. As long as the tunnel is open the browser displays a blank page with no error when I try to open a remote web page, while the terminal gives me a 'Connection refused' error.

I'm using OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 on Xubuntu Hardy.

In case anybody is wondering this is perfectly legitimate. The tunnel.host I connect to is a server set-up by my ISP specifically for this purpose.

Either of the examples above should work as others who have the same ISP reported that it works. Therefore, I suspect this is an issue with my own security settings which are slightly on the paranoid side but I can't figure out what. Stopping ufw and explicitly opening port 8022 didn't help.