Using bittorrent in UCD

Captain Corelli

Does any1 know how to use Bit torrent in UCD. The proxy server is stopping me and does any1 kno how to bypass it??

RE*AC*TOR

Not possible.

GuanYin

It is with a staff account.

RE*AC*TOR

Depends on where you are aswell. Different switches/routers are configured differently.

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-staff accounts have to be registered - so obviously you'd want to be careful
-computers in Comp Sci are unfirewalled, but traffic heavily monitored
-as a rule of thumb it won't work, and if it doesn't work for you currently, there's nothing you can do to "fix" it. (unless you can curry favour with computing services admins).

OfflerCrocGod

There is one way.......find out the IP address of a member of staff. Get a laptop, if you can't figure out the rest.......

radiospan

Can you use HTTP Tunnel or something like that to get around college firewalls?

Prior Of Taize

get a wireless card in your laptop travel within 20 miles (!!!) of UCC and get a connection. UCD must be the same

Also im aware that 20 miles away wont provide you with a T3 connection...

radiospan

Prior Of Taize wrote:

get a wireless card in your laptop travel within 20 miles (!!!) of UCC and get a connection. UCD must be the same

Also im aware that 20 miles away wont provide you with a T3 connection...

Do you know where exactly in UCC the Wifi transmitters are?

Syth

You're not going to be able to do it. Face it. Secondly, If someone found a way they shouldn't post it here because then loadsa people will know how to do it and will start doing it and comp serv will figure out the loop hole and close it. If loads of people do it the network will get congested and the staff will complain about shot speeds and the music/film/game industry will send a letter to hugh brady threating to sue. In short any method a non-techy can use will be closed quickly.

Raskolnikov

Umm, as far as I know, you need to be registered with the UCC Computer Service to actually use the wireless service.

daveirl

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Bri

Wireless in UCD is apparantly confined to HTTP only.

tomk

Bri wrote:

Wireless in UCD is apparantly confined to HTTP only.

Which is no doubt the reasoning behind this:

plazzTT wrote:

Can you use HTTP Tunnel or something like that to get around college firewalls?

I have heard that this can be done (if you know what I mean...), but as per Syth's recommendation above, I'm not going to post the details here. Anyone who wants to do it badly enough should be able to google for what they need.

Bri

Ah. See this is where I'm outa my depth. Just trying to help

uberwolf

comp sci computers are firewalled. at undergrad level.
HTTP tunneling requires admin which you won't get in there easily - it may be your best bet with a wee bit of social engineering - but thats only really an option in 4th yr.

Captain Corelli

k. tanx. and d oder guy s right; a non-techie shouldn't be told. it could have consequences beyond your wildest nightmares a la the opening of the seventh seal!!! Anyway i'm a non-techie so i guess i'll go, like socialise or sumtin. tanx for your help...

RE*AC*TOR

Captain Corelli wrote:

k. tanx. and d oder guy s right; a non-techie shouldn't be told. it could have consequences beyond your wildest nightmares a la the opening of the seventh seal!!! Anyway i'm a non-techie so i guess i'll go, like socialise or sumtin. tanx for your help...

Don't worry about it. Life must be hard without a full keyboard.

Syth

Captain Corelli wrote:

k. tanx. and d oder guy s right; a non-techie shouldn't be told. it could have consequences beyond your wildest nightmares a la the opening of the seventh seal!!! Anyway i'm a non-techie so i guess i'll go, like socialise or sumtin. tanx for your help...

It's just that if something like that gets too popular then computer services will cop on and find a way of stopping it. It happened last year with the free printing scheme. And with people playing Red Alert.

Linoge

You can use a tunneler such as hopster to tunnel around the proxy. You must configure your program to use it. Not sure if you can use bitorrent but you can defo use Kazaa. Must pay as well, about E80 for 1 year which gives you a decent 200k.