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The school is blocking p2p


Kjedelig

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My school is blocking p2p via their internet, and this makes uTorrent unable to download any torrent. VeohTV and Limewire is not working, and not any other p2p application. I don't got any idea of what they have done, but they sent out a email to everyone on the school where they said p2p was a problem for the internet capacity and that they soon would block it. Since that it hasn't worked. Not for me, and not for my mates. It says it has a download speed of 6 KB when I start the program, but it soon goes down to 0 and nothing is downloaded.

I have searched in the forums, and I can not find anything helpful (I think). Please help me with this, I am a totally noob in these connection, and I really want to could use my uTorrent at school.

Somebody got any ideas for a solution, so please tell me!!!

Please excuse my bad English.

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If you don't know why it works or what it's doing, it's really hard to formulate a means of defeating it.

Does it block tracker connections?

Is it blocking the download of .torrent files?

Is it blocking encrypted peer/seed traffic?

Does it seem to detect incoming connections "better" than outgoing ones?

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Thank you for your answers:)

I can download torrentfiles from thepiratebay.org, mininova and other similar sites, and my µTorrent can open them. So far so well. But it can not connect to trackers/seeders or download from them, and I can not upload anything. Since they started to block p2p I have not managed to start any programs through my GPass, so it seems to me they also have stopped encrypted traffic.

Do you know what this can be?

  • 3 weeks later...
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But isn't VPN encrypted? Since all the traffic here is passing by routers, I think they will block it when they understand it is encrypted. Or I am totally wrong?

Please tell me if I am wrong. It would make me really happy to be wrong in this case;)

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Yes, I think this should work. Now I only need to find a good seedbox-site, which I guess I could manage to do myself, but if you have a good tip I would be pleased to hear it.

Thank you very much for the help:-D

EDIT 21.09.09: It appears they only stopped the possibilities of connecting to trackers, or they have changed some options. If I connects to seeds and peers at home, then turns the laptop into hibernation (I am not able to find a good translation), I can continue downloading when I turn it on at shool :D

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