help with firefox and azureus

[shamguy4]

Hello
Im new on this site
I'm in a college with a filter on the internet. The stupid filter doesnt even let me access my gmail account.
And of course -no bittorent -at all. it doesnt even download one byte.
I tried onion routers and stuff... too slow or not good...

So I tried figuring out a way around it and I found ssh.
I tried tunneling through to my home computer
It's behind a router and its also behind mcafee security center
I configured the router and mcafee to open up ports 443 for ssh
I installed freeshd and I have a working connection finally. (took ages to do just that)

But when I try to use putty or tunnelier to set up a port to be able to download in azureus -or just to be able to have full access to the internet it doesnt work.
In putty i tried a dynamic port and I set firefox to local host and the port for socks 5 and it doesnt work?

tunnelier tells me connection closed before completion of protocol
please help
I go back to school monday and who knows if I will be able to access this site!

[yazh58]

try searching for proxies that you can use, and make sure u r encrypting ur torrent traffic.

[shamguy4]

Like a free proxy from some site off google? The ones that never work?
I cant search for proxies anyhow.
Any site with the word proxy is not accesible and wont proxies make it go really slow?

I think i'm very close to connecting to my home computer
when I try to open a port with tunnelier it says it failed and that
ssh_open_connect_failed

[washounce]

are you sure that you configured your ssh and putty correctly? here's some instructions to make sure:

http://whalesalad.com/2006/08/27/tunneling-bittorrent-over-ssh/

here's a random list of proxies i just pulled off google real quick. it will be slower than usual, but it's better than nothing.

http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

also, be careful on using proxies or tunneling. some private trackers can ban you for it, so make sure to look in the faq to make sure it's okay.