Trying to use university internet connection...

[upGrayde]

I'm in the situation where I want to use my university's insanely fast upload speed to...upload.
I was doing a speed test on one of their computer labs; using their connection, the uploads ran at 2 megabytes per second. Now, I installed utorrent, set it up as if I were at my house, disabled their software firewall(norton), and began a torrent. No matter what torrent I tried, or what tracker, I kept getting 0.0kb/s upload rate, utorrent said i was not connectable and the port test said it was not open.

Any idea how I can get around this?

[ssj4gogeta]

It all depends on how the university have there network configured, you could try using a diffrent port for a start see if they are all blocked.

[upGrayde]

lol...are you serious? out of 2000 ports that i can try...

any other suggestions?

[Alien5]

are you a member of SCT, theres 2 threads in there explaining how someone got it to work, tell me if you can see login if not, i will post the guide.

forums - BitTorrent - Networking > Connecting from University

[upGrayde]

what's SCT? scenetorrents? no, i'm not a member..

post the guide please

[Alien5]

Connecting from University

Tunneling
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user wrote:

http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/solutions/http_tunnel/client.asp


Pretty easy to configure for most software, to use their high speed tunnel server there's a $5 per month fee. I used it when my ISP were throttling all BT traffic. You can try the slower speed server's for free before purchase too :-D

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user reply:

I made some tunnels last year:

I don't know how to tunnel to a windows server directly though

What I did was - got a dreamhost.com L1 account ($22 for a year if you use the promo code STARSSS) http://www.dreamhost.com/shared/comparison.html

Then get hold of putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

To use torrents directly:

In host name enter your websites addess i.e. zuczek.com

Then go to ssh--> tunnels and enter source port as 80 click dynamic and click add - then open and log into the ssh session when it asks

Then set your torrent client to use the proxy localhost: 80 - then it should work fine :)

Been a while since I did this it might be 8080 not 80

To connect to a dedicated server

In SSH --> Tunnels enter 3390 as source port and destination port as serverip:3389 and click open enter login etc.

Remote Desktop Connection should work now

^Thats the basic principle I think I remembered everything right
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user reply:

From the info from above and google, i got it working and verified it with a sshd on lan


Open Putty, insert your server's dns in the host box, go ahead and save your session

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/886/sshtunnel1iw0.jpg

now go to the SSH>Tunnels, source port is the local port you will be connecting to, enter Destination as *.* and Select Dynamic, now go back to the session windows, resave your session.

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/8716/sshtunnel2xr1.jpg

Now click Open, and login to your shell, minimize putty

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/7994/sshtunnel3wk8.jpg


Change your torrent clients connection to socks5, localhost and the port you chose, as for the listening port pick one that your server has open

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1111/sshtunnel4no5.jpg

hope it works.

[sear]

Nice one Alien5. mods sticky?

[upGrayde]

wow that's pretty crazy

[sun_star]

HTTP-Tunnel worked on my uni conection, i didn't try the paid service but i think it'll work... i used to download from RS and other direct HTTP links u could try that two.

And another thing, if u wanna use the 2nd method u should make sure that your uni allows u to ssh using telnet a friend of mine had some shell account and he couldn't access it... just a thought so you wouldn't buy a connection and then find out u can't access it

[upGrayde]

What torrent program did you use with http tunne?

How was the dl/ul orginally, and how was it with http tunnel?

[T.r.u.m.p.y]

wow Alien5, tunneling is one hell of a setup...
jope i'll never need to use it, 10x for the info