Bypassing a college cap or firewall

[Shroomer]

This is my first post on your board.
let me start off by saying i really like the board and all of your efforts here.

now my question :)

I'm on a college affilated LAN which blocks most all P2P applications. Direct Connect (my fav) used to work but they blocked that about 2 months ago. Now the only thing that works is Kazaa, but its capped at about 2kb per download. I used to get 100's of kb for dl speed p2p but now this just sucks!

The internet http is still extremely fast, averaging at about 400-500-kb/s so i know the potential is there. What i'm wondering is how do I bypass this!?

I've tried http-port socks2http and http tunnel and can't find anything that is FREE and works. Http tunnel works but again it costs to use it.

Anyone have any input on the subject. I searched but couldnt find anything realitive. thanks!

[Shroomer]

no pearls of wisdom??

[method]

Try to find someone to setup a private host for those programs outside the college/uni/wherever (Socks2IPJ or HTTHost for Socks2HTTP and HTTPort respectively) - Also try and find out if your network traffic there is shaped. (packetshaper) If it is.. Check out whether you can use SSLConnect with HTTPort... if that fails, you'll need to find a network that uses ports used by encrypted protocols (that is, if packetshaper is used there!!), at present.. the only ones that do support these have a ridiculously low number of users.