crx4life2003

I was just curious, Im currently dorming at a University that doesnt allow the downloading from others peers using such programs as bearshare and any torrent downloader. My question is, is there any way I can get around the network firewall. If i could I could make use of the fast internet. Any ideas would be helpfull

cberman

Depends on how they have it blocked. I would try changing your torrent ports

Shreik

As long as they don't use a proxy and have port 80 open, then it's possible to use some programs that allow port 80. There are however some smart firewall programs that can detect p2p traffic over port 80.
I don't know which ones can do this, but i think limewire is one of them.

However, having been a network admin, I know what a pain in the *** it is to make the network useable for everyone and keeping one guy from screwing it up for all. So don't use any of the info I just gave you.

jinxy

if you had another computer set up as a server/client to take care of p2p downloads with the client software then have that machine send you the files but i think thats alittle overcomplicated for what you want to do. I dont know your schools system so i cant tell you anything really. Other than using a trick port like 80 or 5190 or some other commonly used port. Would your school crack down if some nerd with thousands of files set up an apache server with its document root being his music/movies folder and gave the ip out to people on campus?

jinxy

that would be the ---- with campus download speeds getting movies would be faster than driving to block buster

wojo97civic

Where the hell are you going? I go to Illinois State, I have the same damn problem, im downloading at 5kbs max for torrents but for limewire pro i get up to 115kbs, there is no way around the firewall, the only thing i could think of is wireless and downloading from somewhere else

buk9tp

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