Using uTorrent in college?

joeKel73

Hey,

Anyone got any tips for configuring uTorrent to work in college? It does seem to work (not totally blocked), but only connects to the odd seed/peer every so often just for a few kb.

Thanks

RolandIRL

become an IT student, think they're able to use torrents in their computer suites. might be wrong about that though. not a big user of torrents myself, but can you change the port that uTorrent uses? never used that program so don't know if that'll work

best alternative is to use direct downloads instead eg rapidshare/megaupload. i get great speeds off megaupload in the college, regularly ~2MB/s as a free user off both the computer suites and wifi (library/IT building usually).

probably less hassle if all those "Linux ISOs" you want are uploaded there >_>

joeKel73

I am an IT student! I'm interested in running it wirelessly on my laptop though.

Yeah haven't really gotten into the Rapidshare thing yet. Get great speeds with torrents at home.

Vurnon San Benito

It's relatively easy to do.. but I'll leave it at that :pac:

Jagle

Doocey wrote: »

It's relatively easy to do.. but I'll leave it at that :pac:

why are you being shady?

ethernet

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joeKel73

PM details so... Are torrents actually "not allowed" in college though?

TheCosmicFrog

foto joe wrote: »

PM details so... Are torrents actually "not allowed" in college though?

The relevant ports in the ISS firewall appear to block them, yes.

And you call yourself an IT students and can't get around it? Joe Joe Joe...

RolandIRL

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

The relevant ports in the ISS firewall appear to block them, yes.

And you call yourself an IT students and can't get around it? Joe Joe Joe...

i fret for the standard of education in NUIG these days if they don't even teach ye how to bypass firewalls :pac:

dmcg90

PM me details too if you can!

ethernet

foto joe wrote: »

PM details so... Are torrents actually "not allowed" in college though?

Well torrents are fine. It's the shady material that poses the problem. Bound to be covered in the policy you agreed implicitly upon registration.

BTW, just to point out: universities receive notifications when people on the network have downloaded dodgy crap illegally and are expected to go poking. Just keep that in mind.

joeKel73

Haha I'm just bring lazy! I'm sure I could figured it out if I try!

Ah now who said anything about illegal material, it's a legitimate method of sending/receiving files... :cool:

TheCosmicFrog

ethernet wrote: »

Well torrents are fine. It's the shady material that poses the problem. Bound to be covered in the policy you agreed implicitly upon registration.

BTW, just to point out: universities receive notifications when people on the network have downloaded dodgy crap illegally and are expected to go poking. Just keep that in mind.

Indeed. Doesn't a siren and red light go off down in ISS? :pac:

ethernet

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

Indeed. Doesn't a siren and red light go off down in ISS? :pac:

Do I sense sarcasm? Well if they've set a filter on their email to that effect, then yes! A reply is demanded for every instance of detected infringement (which is quite detailed).

Zillah

ethernet wrote: »

BTW, just to point out: universities receive notifications when people on the network have downloaded dodgy crap illegally and are expected to go poking. Just keep that in mind.

I somehow doubt they can go peering into split rar archives.

ethernet

Zillah wrote: »

I somehow doubt they can go peering into split rar archives.

Deep packet inspection and/or honeypots. That is all.

RolandIRL

Torrents are easy to track though. The film/music/tv companies monitor the shared files and can alert the university's ISP (whoever that is) to that some of its IPs are illegally sharing files, though they probably don't care given the court case UPC had this year (i think)

I doubt ISS care or do too much about illegal downlaods given that you regularly see people in the computer suites watching the latest tv shows off megavideo...

>_>

<_<

Columc

Roland Deschain wrote: »

Torrents are easy to track though. The film/music/tv companies monitor the shared files and can alert the university's ISP (whoever that is)

Their ISP is HEAnet.

Zillah

ethernet wrote: »

Deep packet inspection and/or honeypots. That is all.

Even if it's all SSL?

TheCosmicFrog

Zillah wrote: »

Even if it's all SSL?

If you've forced SSL encryption on a torrent then very unlikely.

To be clear - I don't know much about torrents. I don't use them except for when the new version of Ubuntu comes out. I think it's good to seed it as much as possible for the first day or two. The Canonical servers usually die for much of launch day.

Zillah

I meant for direct downloads, like a split rar archive over rapidshare.

ethernet

Zillah wrote: »

Even if it's all SSL?

Possibly.

I'm waiting for the day when they install their own RCA certs on all the PCs in the suites to snoop. Pretty much a MITM attack. Lots of businesses already doing it.