<p>So I just arrived on campus and everything seems fine beside the fact that torrent clients are partly blocked, I get a red or yellow icon, those who use torrent clients know what I mean. </p>
<p>Is it any way I can get past that and somehow open a port, not knowing what kind of router/or whatever they are using?? </p>
<p>How to find a working port which I could use on downloading torrents?</p>
<p>Should I ask someone from technical about it or would they make a big deal out of it?</p>
<p>This may not work but worth a try.</p>
<p>Download uTorrent. Install it. Go to Options -> Preferences.</p>
<p>Click on BitTorrent. Under Protocol Encryption select the following:
Outgoing: Forced
Uncheck 'Allow incoming legacy connections'.</p>
<p>Make sure that you're own firewall on your computer isn't blocking it either.</p>
<p>This essentially encrypts all your packets so that the school does not know what the packets contain. Some schools use routing software so that certain packets (such as those coming from p2p software) will get the lowest priority in bandwidth out of all other internet packets. So this may help.</p>
<p>you can't use BT if you have an internal IP (starting with 10.<em>.</em>.* or 192.168.<em>.</em>) AND you can't do port forwarding</p>
<p>Since when does the BitTorrent protocol discriminate by IP address? And who said you can't run torrents with ports not forwarded?</p>
<p>thx for the responses. unfortunately my IP starts with 10. Torrents will run on notforwarded port but the speed is pretty bad. Well it doesnt matter anymore, I will just concentrate on GPA.</p>
<p>consider yourself lucky, blamu. any attempt to run torrent programs at my school cuts off my internet access for 20 minutes. bastards. i would kill for a yellow icon.</p>
<p>speed will vary from torrent to torrent. however since you are at school you should keep two things in mind: 1) you're not paying electricity which means you can leave your computer running on all day as most students usually do, and 2) unless they have caps on connections (whether daily or monthly, etc) you don't have to worry about how long it takes to download or how much you download.</p>
<p>egolikestomach, give the recommendation i gave to the OP a try. you only have 20 minutes to lose.</p>
<p>I would suggest renting</a> a seedbox, as that's the best way to solve this problem. If the cost is too high, just share it with 2 or 3 other people, and it'll only be ~$3/month.</p>
<p>egolikestomach, I am really sorry :| USA spoiled my ass in 2 weeks LOL (back in home I couldnt even watch nba online because of my ****ty connection)</p>
<p>And BP-TheGuy88 you are absolutely right </p>
<p>Srunni - I didnt even know that something like seedbox existed. I will make some research on the internet BUT I'm guessing that its helping with "seeding" only? in which I'm not interested in because somehow my upload is almost always double the speed of my download.</p>
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<p>The seedbox has a web interface, so you just go to the site with your browser, log in, and then upload a .torrent file via regular HTTP upload. Then it starts downloading. When it's done, you can download the file(s) via FTP, SFTP, SCP, or HTTP (i.e., directly from the browser).</p>
<p>Some of those facts may vary depending on the seedbox provider, but that's the general idea. For example, that setup might use Torrentflux-b4rt as the backend because it has a nice built-in web interface, but for more technical users, some seedbox providers offer the option of rtorrent and you just use SSH with GNU Screen to control the torrents.</p>
<p> [QUOTE=blamu2]
somehow my upload is almost always double the speed of my download.
That's because you're not limiting the upload speed, so it's saturating your pipe and slowing your downloads.</p>
<p>thx for the info srunni</p>