Bittorent download problems

[Zerstorer]

guys im on a college network and seem to be getting errors when I use bittorent, does this mean cant use bittorent

[moneoa]

guys im on a college network and seem to be getting errors when I use bittorent, does this mean cant use bittorent
Firewalled....your school has routers and firewalls that kill the speed.
...hmmm hold on you said errors....perhaps they have software that kills p2p?

[hawkburn]

I told this to someone else... try to find an open port that may have been left out. Maybe they only blocked the default ports? (6881-6889) See if you can get a site to tell you which ports are open (I believe Norton does this) and use those.

Also, there's something called HTTP Tunnel... I dont know the specifics.. but you may want to look into this, it could help somewhat.

[Zerstorer]

yea the person who told me about bittorent said that my college cant block it. Maybe he is on crack because sometimes my tracker get errors and and sometimes i get to connecting to peers and thats it. I did a port scan to see what open ports were open. There was none that I saw, maybe I am doing it wrong. any idea what else i can do

[werocool]

You can get an account with http://www.torrentonline.com had the same problems at campus, so I got there torrent downloader service, works like a charm, their server downloads the torrent for you and you download it later on http (direct download). :gj