Doomtomb Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Hi guys, let me just say I've been using torrents for a while now with utorrent and it's awesome. Recently though, I started going to a university in San Antonio, Texas and now I can't download torrents very quickly at all!My problem lies in the fact that as it appears, none of my ports are open. I'm using the campus network (your only option for internet) and my downloads are very slow, never getting above 20kb/s for any torrent. I'm not getting that green light, it is usually yellow at first, then turns red after a while. It is not a firewall on my laptop. The only firewall I have is the Windows firewall and I have uTorrent as an exception. In addition I even have a port added as an exception (56333) and it is still not working. I believe it must be some sort of firewall on the network but how can I forward/open a port on this network when I have no idea what router they are using, not to mention I don't have admin privileges. This sucks so much, please help me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 If you don't have control over the router, you won't have control over the port forwarding. Indeed, university network routers/firewalls generally don't allow port forwarding, and chances are, unless you can get on the network administrators' very good side, you won't be getting an opened port either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomtomb Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 So... no hope.. ? Any alternatives? Why can't we just have direct links? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Direct links...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomtomb Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 EX: http://www.batman.com/thedarkknight.aviNo proxies, no clients, just your web browser and it's alot faster. My server has unlimited bandwidth so bandwidth wouldn't be an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 You misunderstand the point behind BitTorrent then. Why can't you have direct links? Ask the person who shared the original file >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomtomb Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 "Ask the person who shared the original file" What would they say? Something about the FBI coming to their house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 I don't know. We don't decide how a file is distributed, so there's no point asking us why direct links shouldn't be used -- that's what I was getting at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Universities block, cripple, and disrupt BitTorrent traffic.I do not see how that's our fault.Now you can TRY this, but I won't promise that it'll help any:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=361747#p361747 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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