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Not a happy bunny.

Greatgraddage

Greatgraddage

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I've been in uni without an internet connection for the last 2 weeks because the network socket in my room was bust, and it took them two weeks to repair it! I could have done it in 5 minutes with a new socket and a screwdriver. Anyway, that's the least of my problems, the main problem is that they have blocked bittorrent! I'm really not happy. No more top gear till I get home! And the new series starts soon, I can watch it on TV but I like to watch them a couple of times, and I can't always be sure I'll catch it on TV. The horror!

Ah well, end of rant! I'll survive, but not as happilly as I should be!
 
how did they block bit torrent?
 
^ Universities and and ISPs do it a lot - they just block or strangle out traffic on the ports that BitTorrent operates on. There isn't really any way around it at all. :(

It is an easy way for them to cut down on illegal file sharing, but it is an absolutely tyranical measure to take. BitTorrent has huge potential for legitimate use, but as most ISPs and University network admins lack any resemblance of common sense, they just deny BitTorrent traffic all together. :evil: I'd really like to have a face to face discussion with one of the people responsible for such decisions. :twisted:

I feel for you Greatgraddage. :cry:
 
Yea, they don't give us real internet access as such, just web browsing through a proxy. Most HTTP downloads seem throttled, though I've peaked at over 800kbs on times! They've blocked most incoming connections which means bittorrent and even online gaming is out! After a bit of searching on google I think I could get bittorrent to work but if I get caught I'll be in deep shit. So I'll have to survive...

At least I can still post on the forums!
 
My university leaves all of the ports untampered with, so there is no connection problems with BitTorrent, FTPs or games, but they limit all outgoing connections to 200KBs. I get over 1MBs to local servers and other users on the campus network, but anything external is limited to 200KBs.

It's something I really don't mind actually - I'd rather have a slower connection than a tyranically repressed connection. :D
 
And you can't really complain with 200KBs, that's not exactly slow. For downloading movie files via http it seems throttled to about 3KBs. So I'll have to start asking for zipped movies on yousendit :D
 
^^ I've you're talking AVI movies, zipping them isn't going to help you much (other that you get a way to verify that it transferred ok).
 
No, the network seems to throttle certain file types, which seems to include most movie types. ipping may let me download at full speed.
 
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