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A (possibly) unanswerable question about UL's Broadband service
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26-08-2011 02:21PM#1...specifically, I'm a long time P2P/fileshare/torrents user and a first time UL on campus resident.
In UL I've come up against a combination of an inability to do any type of P2P or torrent downloading and a complete lack of knowledge as to whether or not I can use something to try to get around that problem or if I just need to give up on the habit and accept that it isn't possible.
When I turned up I was given a broadband cable to plug into my laptop, so internet access thus comes from an old school plug and play. When I attempt to use UTorrent (for example) I have no problem downloading a torrent, but UTorrent then just sits there and tells me (1) DHT: waiting to log in and (2) when I run a test on the network, it tells me "port is not open (you are still able to download.)
Speed stays stoically at 0.0 kb/s with intermittent spikes up to 5.0 kb/s that then disappear within seconds.
Had a look at portforward.com and it reads like sanskrit to me.
Had a look at other trouble shooting sites and the general consensus seems to be 'avoid messing with university firewalls or die.'
So..do any other current/former UL attendees have any advice to offer me? I do apologise if this is too techy and weird - let me know if it should go somewhere else!0
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wnolan1992 wrote: »Some sites that work fine on the UL system:
www.firstrowsports.eu - The best way to watch soccer imho
www.solarmovie.eu - Brilliant for movies, most films have several links available.
Megavideo and MegaUpload can be tricky, as all the computers have the same IP address, and therefore everyone is using he same connection, and megavideo only allow 72mins of free viewing a day.
As for the torrents, there is a way around it if you're lucky. There's a proxy server set up you can use in Utorrent that's meant to work, but I've given up hope of getting it working at this stage.
sound thanks
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does anyone do LAN parties anymore? I should join the games society I guess, but we could set one up?
I can't really drop my big ass PC off in the library cause it'd be quite confusing for the security.
besides, everyone knows gaming on a lappy is for noobs! :cool:
LAN parties are far more fun than just playing online, and all the best LAN games (Counterstrike, Starcraft, Warcraft, Red Alert,Battlefield 1942 etc) are all old enough to easily play on laptops these days
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random question here - emm is anyone else having trouble with logging in on sulis even though , ive swiped my card and changed the password just yeresterday in the library.im mananing to get into the student portal with the"new" password yet i cant access sulis, ive stuff to print off asap so any help would be appreciated !!
you just need to use your student number eg. 12345678 as the username not the full e-mail address eg 12345678@studentmail.ul.ie... hope this helps!
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thank u , thank u , thank u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you just need to use your student number eg. 12345678 as the username not the full e-mail address eg 12345678@studentmail.ul.ie... hope this helps!
it worked !!! im so happy lol ! thanks again 0 -
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