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    Torrents in college

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by denro11, Jan 30, 2008.

  1. denro11

    denro11 Notebook Geek

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    Ok, so i just got back from winter break. Before winter break, i had Azureus Vuze *only used advanced tab tho* and everything was set up wonderfully. Now that i'm back in school tho, i wanted to get some new stuff, cause my HDD in my Dell Inspiron 1520 went up and had to re get all my old stuff. So, i try.... load up Vuze, get my torrents on there......... NOTHING! i had speeds of bout 150/200kb/sec w/o having a static IP, cause i can't really get the DNS server names from my school w/o calling up OIT or the people who give us our internet.

    Now though, absolutely nothing, so i try Utorrent. same thing, same settings. Ended up getting a new router tonight, the Netgear dual band wireless-n router, ya know, the fancy rounded black/blue one. set that up, internet's fast and all that. when i try to torrent, i still get nothing. no speeds at all. and i get the same problem as my old router, in that while vuze or utorrent is up and "running" so to say, i can't pull up any webpages, they all time out. and yes, i've changed the upload speeds to like 30kb/sec to clear up my bandwidth. and when i exit the torrent programs, it takes like another 2-3min before i can go ahead and start surfing again.... any suggestions on how to get torrenting and surfing while torrenting to work again for me? it's quite annoying
     
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  2. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    Hmm, interesting. Maybe your school has implemented some sort of blocking/throttling of torrents similar to what Comcast has done.
     
    booboo12, Jan 30, 2008
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    brain3 Notebook Guru

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    Many colleges have been blocking/throttling torrents for years now, especially public universities. Two popular methods for doing this are by limiting overall bandwidth usage and by traffic shaping. As far as bypassing them, I've never looked into it because my college never limited internet use.
     
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    Instead of playing a cat-and-mouse game, ask the computer help desk about Torrents.
     
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  5. denro11

    denro11 Notebook Geek

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    they put a no no on DC++, limewire, and torrents. big sign, it's been up all year. but i've had no problem until i came back from winter break. sucks too, i didn't backup all my .iso's for my engineering software. DC++ i had 11mb/s downloads, limewire was 500kb/s+, and torrents were like 100-200kb/s avg. i guess i'll call the place where they get their net, and ask for the DNS servers #'s and static ip until i get all my software again. nothing else i can do though?
     
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Some university do not allow routers either. So you may want to clone your mac address into the router. If you do a direct connect with lan wire does you pc work without BT?
     
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  7. denro11

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    not quite sure what ur getting at, but yet my lappy does work w/o bluetooth. i guess i'll put my mac address into the router, assuming that i should put my roomies in 2 so only us 2 can use it? cause there's an option for that that involves the mac address
     
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    Cloneing the mac address will only work on the WAN connection. All activity will look like only one pc with the cloned address. All tied to the MAC address. So if your roomies do something bad it's your butt in the sling. If you want to use the wireless only for you. You will need to setup the routers as a AP with you the only user.
     
    blue68f100, Jan 31, 2008
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