At College - How do i Port Forward

[Leth3an]

I'm on a college network and get either .01 or .02 kp/s all the time. I have no router and my onboard network card (part of my mobo) is plugged directly to the wall. Is this impossible to configure? Are there any other programs that would be less hassle to set up?

Thanks,

Chris

[Switeck]

You can't port forward -- you don't know the password to access their router...and even that probably has a router-gateway above that which would also need to be forwarded. If UPnP doesn't work, you're permanently, hopelessly firewalled.

And that's not the worst of it! They almost certainly block BitTorrent traffic (and other file-sharing traffic) as best as they can, so there's probably not much you can do.

Maybe a VPN could bypass the filtering, but you could get banned quick if they catch you using lots of bandwidth especially during peak hours. So even just to test that you'd need to do it outside peak hours with very very conservative settings in uTorrent.

[Leth3an]

Ouch. That stinks. Thank you very much for your help. Could I get more info about a VPN?

[Switeck]

VPNs tend to be expensive, harder to set up than typical proxy connections, and I've never used them...and barely ever used a proxy server. It's no understatement to say it's not my specialty.

[Leth3an]

Ok, well thanks again. I guess I'll just do without.

[The_Nephilim]

Try HTTP Tunnel