Packet Shaper

[Quasmo]

My school has a packet shaper, is there any way past this. Changing ports does not work, and its sometimes faster to download files at home and transfer them to school through AIM. Any suggestions?

 

[MDE]

USB thumb drive?

 

[Quasmo]

home is 4 hours away

 

[SUOrangeman]

I have a PacketShaper here in my lab. There is no way around it as there is likely one data path out of your network, and that data path goes through it. These units can shape traffic via port, via host, and/or via protocol. If changing ports doesn't help, then they may have an IP-specific shaping profile. Only way around that is to use an IP not in the profile. How likely are you able to find a usuable, but no-constrained IP?

-SUO

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
My school has a packet shaper, is there any way past this. Changing ports does not work, and its sometimes faster to download files at home and transfer them to school through AIM. Any suggestions?

Attempting to get around any such services without the permission of your IT staff is a really, really good way to piss them off and/or lose your network connection entirely. And unless they are completely inept, they *will* notice what you're doing even if you are successful.

 

[phreaqe]

you could try to use a proxy server and bring everything in on port 80. that got around the packet sniffer at my school. the problem is finding a fast free proxy server.