Hotel slowing port 80 traffic, how can I reroute to a different port?

[RaiderJ]

Normally I wouldn't complain about a hotel's free internet service, but 10kB/s is just terrible. I figure they must be slowing traffic on that port since my NewsGroup downloading is clipping along at over 100KB/s.

Is there a way I can webbrowse over a different port? Maybe an online proxy or something?

 

[Acanthus]

even going to an online proxy its still hitting the packet shaper using port 80.

You would have to be using the different port natively, some of them can be fooled by encryption.

On my local ISP: (who mentions nothing about throttling torrents in my contract i signed, even though they clearly do it)

Unencrypted torrents: 20KB/sec
Encrypted torrents: 345KB/sec

 

[Pulsar]

Perhaps you should consider switching hotels rather than trying to circumvent their IT policy on a free connection....?

 

[tyanni]

Originally posted by: Pulsar
Perhaps you should consider switching hotels rather than trying to circumvent their IT policy on a free connection....?

Seriously - If I was trying to do work while at the hotel and you were slowing me down by downloading crap via newsgroups, I'd be pissed.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: tyanni

Originally posted by: Pulsar
Perhaps you should consider switching hotels rather than trying to circumvent their IT policy on a free connection....?

Seriously - If I was trying to do work while at the hotel and you were slowing me down by downloading crap via newsgroups, I'd be pissed.

If its throttled anyway , you wouldnt notice the difference

 

[KingGheedora]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
even going to an online proxy its still hitting the packet shaper using port 80.

You would have to be using the different port natively, some of them can be fooled by encryption.

On my local ISP: (who mentions nothing about throttling torrents in my contract i signed, even though they clearly do it)

Unencrypted torrents: 20KB/sec
Encrypted torrents: 345KB/sec

How does this work? Are encrypted torrents going over a different port? If so, can you just change the port torrents go over to have your unencrypted ones go faster?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: KingGheedora

Originally posted by: Acanthus
even going to an online proxy its still hitting the packet shaper using port 80.

You would have to be using the different port natively, some of them can be fooled by encryption.

On my local ISP: (who mentions nothing about throttling torrents in my contract i signed, even though they clearly do it)

Unencrypted torrents: 20KB/sec
Encrypted torrents: 345KB/sec

How does this work? Are encrypted torrents going over a different port? If so, can you just change the port torrents go over to have your unencrypted ones go faster?

I believe it not only actually encrypts the data, but it moves it over multiple ports.

It's simply a checkmark feature you enable in azureus. If youre worried about people with clients that dont support it, you can also uncheck "require encrypted connections" or something to that effect.

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Normally I wouldn't complain about a hotel's free internet service, but 10kB/s is just terrible. I figure they must be slowing traffic on that port since my NewsGroup downloading is clipping along at over 100KB/s.

Perhaps your 100+KB/s newsgroup connection is only leaving that much bandwidth on the hotel's 1.5 Mb/s T1 line? If you want your newsgroups, do it on your 6 Mb/s ADSL line at home. Other people have work to do.

 

[vorgusa]

having to do with the torrent comment I think it is because they packet shape using the application not that port. so When it see a torrent file it slows it down, when it sees an encrypted file it does not.