Rapidshare on Campus

sei046

Guys i run a studio and I use rapidshare to transfer my files from my laptop rig when im moving about to the studio rig. Im in the missus' campus here and they obviously have some block on downloading or something? Is ther some way i can bypass this? its ridiculous that i cant download my own files or send her anything.

conceited

Get a usb key and pull up your socks young man:D

sei046

There isnt a big enough usb key in the world. And anyway this is ridiculous! What good is the bloody internet if you cannot download ANYTHING!

h57xiucj2z946q

I bought an 8GB USB key of ebay for €45, that should be plenty big?

sei046

so i take it there is no way

rmacm

sei046 wrote: »

Guys i run a studio and I use rapidshare to transfer my files from my laptop rig when im moving about to the studio rig. Im in the missus' campus here and they obviously have some block on downloading or something? Is ther some way i can bypass this? its ridiculous that i cant download my own files or send her anything.

If you are in college accomodation and a lot of people are using Rapidshare you won't have free access to Rapidshare. If you're using the free version of it you'll have to wait in a queue to download your stuff.

As far as I know a paid account on Rapidshare gets around this restriction. How big are these files? Memory stick or portable hdd perhaps?

aidan_walsh

The blocks are there for a reason. If there is a way to bypass it, its not something you should be advised of here.

Besides, why not use local transfer methods rather that uploading and downloading from the net?

sei046

I have paid for a legal ftp transfer site and i cannot use it. Thats insane!

biologikal

As someone said, the blocks are there for a reason. Rapidshare and other similar sites are full of questionable material, so colleges rightly have have a blanket ban on them. If students had access to them, the HEAnet would grind to a halt, and affect those using it for legitimate purposes, such as research, e-mailing reports, and so on. If you're not happy about it, then talk to the computer staff, as they can unlock it for you if you have a good enough reason to be using it. If you're still not happy with their reply, then get your own mobile BB solution and use that instead.

JimmyCrackCorn!

Small USB HDD.

Get your own internets. There your options.

AARRRGH

sei046 wrote: »

I have paid for a legal ftp transfer site and i cannot use it. Thats insane!

The network administrator can block whatever he wants.

Rapidshare is famous for warez, pirate movies, pirate mp3's and porn. There was obviously a problem with a lot of users hogging the bandwidth downloading this stuff.

Btw, I don't think you're entitled to complain about your use of someone else's internet connection, i.e. are YOU allowed use your girlfriend's college connection?

Byte22

JimmyCrackCorn! wrote: »

Small USB HDD.

Get your own internets. There your options.

hehe

redout

Get yourself a VPN and that could work.

castie

320gig WD Passports going for around 100 euro.

I really cant see you downloading anything bigger than that.

Although i must say, i smell someone trying to get around a rapidshare block and using a fake reason so someone here might actually help them.
To Note anyone that was found to be helping you do this would probably get a site ban.

NullZer0

redout wrote: »

Get yourself a VPN and that could work.

From what I've seen on the majority of college networks lately you wont have any luck with a VPN. Most of them are using VPN a the connection method.