I think my school is blocking or filtering bittorrent in some way. ANyway around this?

[Phokus]

I'm able to connect to other bittorrent peers and even download a little bit. However, every single bittorrent that i've downloaded goes at about 1kb - 2kb speed. I look at all the peers connected to me and they're all connecting at like 200 - 500 bytes per second. ANd i know it's not a bandwidth problem because i can download files off websites at like 800KB/second. When i go home, i can download bittorrent files at 500KB/second, wtf is going on? Is there a way around this?


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[BespinReactorShaft]

Change the port range?

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: ming2020
Change the port range?

I've been changing ports all day and i can't seem to get any decent d/l speeds.

THis is insane, i have one file that i'm connected to 181 seeders and 8 peers and i'm getting ZERO download speeds, wtf.

 

[AnyMal]

I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

 

[dc5]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

not all torrents are illegal.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: dc5

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

not all torrents are illegal.

I know, but the only way his school can protect themselves from getting sued is blocking it altogether.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: dc5

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

not all torrents are illegal.

I know, but the only way his school can protect themselves from getting sued is blocking it altogether.

Probably their thought

 

[duragezic]

Same symptoms as if you're router is not forwarding ports, so yes, your school is probably blocking it.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: dc5

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

not all torrents are illegal.

Links?

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: dc5

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

not all torrents are illegal.

Links?

I think what he's saying is that Torrent has a potenial for legit use. Kind of argument that keeps P2P apps around. For now anyway....

 

[blazer78]

u can use both these 2 programs in conjunction

Httport
Sockscap32

httport is http tunneling software, allows u to "bypass" your firewall by sending and recieving packets through the port that u browse with

sockscap is a socksifier use it to socksify shadows experimental or bittornado.

with those 2 progs you'll be able to use bt behind your firewall, don't expect great speeds, but it works. i've tried it on a unix firewall.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Check out the nice little piece of technology known as a packet shapper. Had to mess around with that for the majority of three years at the UW. However, I agree with the caps they put on P2P. Without them, everyone would eat up every available piece of bandwidth, making legal, legitimate uses of the web that much slower (trust me, before they had the packet shapper things were ugly). From what I hear now though, they got rid of it. They now keep track of comps by IP addy, and watch the bandwidth usage. Anything over a combined total of 5 gigabytes in a week (for I/O), gets capped to 56k speeds. Seems pretty reasonable

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I think my school is blocking or filtering bittorrent in some way. ANyway around this?

Dear Residence Student,

Please go buy your own god damned cable/DSL line. We're not paying thousands for that fat frame-relay so you can leech your Pr0n at high speeds.

Love,

- M4H
Former Network Staff at UofW

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

I think my school is blocking or filtering bittorrent in some way. ANyway around this?

Dear Residence Student,

Please go buy your own god damned cable/DSL line. We're not paying thousands for that fat frame-relay so you can leech your Pr0n at high speeds.

Love,

- M4H
Former Network Staff at UofW

agreed, and then people like us have to come clean the trojans and spyware off your pc when it gets pwned

-schadenfroh
Current Network Technician at his community college

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

I think my school is blocking or filtering bittorrent in some way. ANyway around this?

Dear Residence Student,

Please go buy your own god damned cable/DSL line. We're not paying thousands for that fat frame-relay so you can leech your Pr0n at high speeds.

Love,

- M4H
Former Network Staff at UofW

agreed, and then people like us have to come clean the trojans and spyware off your pc when it gets pwned

-schadenfroh
Current Network Technician at his community college

We just shut their port off on the switch and tell them to go vigorously fornicate themselves if we see trojan activity.

- M4H
Former BOFH

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: dc5

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

not all torrents are illegal.

Links?

Futuremark put out a torrent for 3DMark05
Blizzard put out the World of Warcraft beta through BitTorrent
Fedora has a torrent link as well...

That's just a couple off the top of my head.

 

[XBoxLPU]

Most game demos now are available as a torrent file, I always downloading demos fastest using torrent too (no more hunting a good server!)

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I don't pay 34k a year to get pwned by a firewall.

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: dc5

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I think your school doesn't want people to engage in illegal activities.

not all torrents are illegal.

Links?

Futuremark put out a torrent for 3DMark05
Blizzard put out the World of Warcraft beta through BitTorrent
Fedora has a torrent link as well...

That's just a couple off the top of my head.

Add to that the Gentoo ISOs....

(Though I still agree that BT should be blocked from colleges etc.)

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
I don't pay 34k a year to get pwned by a firewall.

Must be hard working a job to make that much money and going to school full time.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
I don't pay 34k a year to get pwned by a firewall.

You pay 34k per year for education, not for the right to pirate movies and music.

 

[Modeps]

Here's an idea, abide to their TOS and firewall settings. They're blocking torrents because they completely destroy bandwidth, similar to P2P programs. Go get your own apartment with your own cable modem/dsl line if you dont like them, or find a source other than torrents for your downloads.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
I don't pay 34k a year to get pwned by a firewall.

You pay 34k per year for education, not for the right to pirate movies and music.

Guess what a large portion of that 34k goes to?

Edit and also I don't download a lot of pirate stuff most of the stuff I download is unlicensed and generally not looked down on.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
I don't pay 34k a year to get pwned by a firewall.

You pay 34k per year for education, not for the right to pirate movies and music.

Guess what a large portion of that 34k goes to?

Your education?

Edit and also I don't download a lot of pirate stuff most of the stuff I download is unlicensed and generally not looked down on.

I just murder people on Sunday. Hyperbole, I know, but you're still part of the crowd that we're squishing.

Oh, and you're being PwN3d by a packet shaper more likely.

- M4H

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
I don't pay 34k a year to get pwned by a firewall.

You pay 34k per year for education, not for the right to pirate movies and music.

Guess what a large portion of that 34k goes to?

Your education?

Edit and also I don't download a lot of pirate stuff most of the stuff I download is unlicensed and generally not looked down on.

I just murder people on Sunday. Hyperbole, I know, but you're still part of the crowd that we're squishing.

Oh, and you're being PwN3d by a packet shaper more likely.

- M4H

Acting dense doesn't make you look smart. I'll rephrase my question; Guess where the money comes from to pay for the colleges internet connections?

Wait so your compairing downloading legal files on bittorrent to murder?! What family member of yours did bittorrent rape that it deserves such treatment?

I'm not being pwned by anything; I was talking hypothetically.

Bittorrent is the future of downloads. Crippling it just slows progress. Almost any big release can be gotten on bittorrent at a fraction of the cost in bandwidth. SP2, various betas, various trailers, and various open source programs are hosted legally on BT. Why should it be looked down on in a different way from normal ftp transfer?