totse.com | Port Forwarding At University

harry_bosetti · #1 2008-09-08, 15:59

I recently moved into residence on campus at my university. Naturally I want to continue torrenting and unless I can port forward, Im going to continue downloading/uploading at 10kb/s. Anyone have some suggestions? Im on a mac running OS X 10.4 with Azureus.

Thanks

oddballz194 · #2 2008-09-08, 16:19

Unless you can log into their routers with an administrative account, you won't be able to port forward. The only way around that is to ask their admin to forward the port for you (which they won't do).

Port forwarding has nothing to do with what OS you have on your machine or which torrent client you use. It's all about the router, and since you don't own it or administer it....

harry_bosetti · #3 2008-09-08, 17:29

Fuck. Thanks anyways.

wargsm · #4 2008-09-08, 22:29

Azureus changed over to Vuze recently, you're running an old version.

Not sure about Vuze, but in bitcomet/uTorrent, I got around throttling (a little)by turning on protocol encryption.
Options > Preferences > Advanced > Protocol encryption - On.

As far as opening ports, unless you get admin access to the router itself, or get an Admin to open a port up for you....you're shit out of luck.

*******
When I went to student accommodation, it was within range of countless wireless networks. The alternative, was to crack the WEP for one of them, and use that to torrent.

kenshiro_kid · #5 2008-09-09, 01:27

Use Transmission, it's a better torrent client.

You could try to do some sort of funny SSH'ing into the router and configure it from the SDM interface (Security Device Manager) it's what Cisco uses, and it's probably what your university has.

Sark · #6 2008-09-09, 21:46

Tunnelling perhaps? Though in fairness, if you were found out then your university place may be at stake, as I'm sure it would be a massive violation of their TOS and university policy. Is it worth that? If so, tunnel away. If not, maybe invest in a decent cantenna and learn to crack WEP. Too much hassle.

Edit: Just thought, how about sleeping with the admin in return for opening up that precious port? Just lay back, close your eyes and think of your torrenting! Yep, so 99% of the time the admin will be a man, and 98% of the time he will be a sweaty jedi worshipping geek with a glass eye. But it depends how bad you want to torrent man!

Prometheum · #7 2008-09-10, 21:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by wargsm View Post

Azureus changed over to Vuze recently, you're running an old version.

Not sure about Vuze, but in bitcomet/uTorrent, I got around throttling (a little)by turning on protocol encryption.
Options > Preferences > Advanced > Protocol encryption - On.

As far as opening ports, unless you get admin access to the router itself, or get an Admin to open a port up for you....you're shit out of luck.

*******
When I went to student accommodation, it was within range of countless wireless networks. The alternative, was to crack the WEP for one of them, and use that to torrent.

Well yeah the name is Vuze, but it's still Azureus (I think, I use Deluge). Just hit the "advanced view" button or whatever.

Prometheum · #8 2008-09-10, 21:33

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Originally Posted by Sark View Post

Tunnelling perhaps? Though in fairness, if you were found out then your university place may be at stake, as I'm sure it would be a massive violation of their TOS and university policy. Is it worth that? If so, tunnel away. If not, maybe invest in a decent cantenna and learn to crack WEP. Too much hassle.

Edit: Just thought, how about sleeping with the admin in return for opening up that precious port? Just lay back, close your eyes and think of your torrenting! Yep, so 99% of the time the admin will be a man, and 98% of the time he will be a sweaty jedi worshipping geek with a glass eye. But it depends how bad you want to torrent man!

SSH tunneling or setting up a VPN to your house or a VPS or other server is typically how warez gets into more elite universities.

O RLY · #9 2008-09-11, 08:57

You could make friends with someone at a Frat. I'm sure that those houses have internet access and then you can download your torrents there. I don't think Frats. are on the campus network by any means.

glutamate antagonist · #10 2008-09-12, 12:08

Here's a different possible solution:

https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en

Or PCAnywhere or any similar software. It's remote assistance software. So you run a program in which you're using your other PC.

Keep a PC running somewhere else, I'm assuming you've moved out from your parent's. Use that as the 'surrogate', if you will, to do the downloading for you.

Set up an FTP server on your home PC to transfer files between your PC and wherever you are now.

This also avoids your university being involved any way in your [assumption] piracy, since you're not using their networks to upload.