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    Problem with College Network and File-Sharing

    I have just moved into College housing and in all my attempts to download music I am either unable to connect or unable to download files. I have used Morpheus and I am able to connect, search, and find files. However when I try to download them they never actually start downloading. It will say things like connecting to ## hosts, but no matter how long I leave it for it never actually connects. NeoNetwork is connected and firewalled and the Gnutella network does not connect. MyTunes Redux works perfectly although this is local area network so I figured it would work. I also have tried Shareaza and it also never connects. I would really appreciate it if someone could direct me to a file-sharing program that I could use to download music as well as movies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xxxacidmouthxxx
    I have just moved into College housing and in all my attempts to download music I am either unable to connect or unable to download files. I have used Morpheus and I am able to connect, search, and find files. However when I try to download them they never actually start downloading. It will say things like connecting to ## hosts, but no matter how long I leave it for it never actually connects. NeoNetwork is connected and firewalled and the Gnutella network does not connect. MyTunes Redux works perfectly although this is local area network so I figured it would work. I also have tried Shareaza and it also never connects. I would really appreciate it if someone could direct me to a file-sharing program that I could use to download music as well as movies.

    COllege campus are doing more to block it.

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    Unless you're prepared to do some serious homework on network security, http tunneling and so forth, I would forget about it. The college uses this security for this very reason...to stop you from downloading. Maybe you should be studying computer science.
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    Do me a favor and try this:
    http://www.zeropaid.com/filetopia/

    It's Filetopia and usually works when all others have failed especially at college campuses. Report back your results!

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    holy shit did beatfactory just make a zp appearance???? wow. welcome back kid, it's been a while.
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    Whad up Beat!


    So what's the deal with Azureus and uTorrent encryption? Does that beat uni firewalls? I mean, provided you have enough peers also using encryption of course...

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    Utorrent and azureus is using encryption because of Traffic shaping thats happening on some cable companies. Instead of allowing users to get full speed on bt, they do this to keep their broadband usage down against heavy downloaders.

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    My school has a pretty nasty firewall that packetshapes (I believe its called packeteer). It allows all traffic on all ports, but limits them to less than dialup speeds (although durring non peak times it gets a bit faster than that).

    Bittorrent works with lots of people on big trackers, but my upload ratio really sucks and it takes days for a cd.

    I eventually resorted to http/ftp sites. There are forums around the net where people post stuff on http/ftp sites. I generally get much better speeds this way, and quality tends to be better. The only problem is finding working links, if you find big enough forums this isn't a problem however.

    You should also look to see if your school has newsgroups.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dubstylee
    holy shit did beatfactory just make a zp appearance???? wow. welcome back kid, it's been a while.
    Quote Originally Posted by cjules13
    Whad up Beat!


    So what's the deal with Azureus and uTorrent encryption? Does that beat uni firewalls? I mean, provided you have enough peers also using encryption of course...
    What's up! Yeah, I'm always here lol just lurking tho... This is my home away from home haha.

    If it's a strict firewall (not as strict as packeteer) that allows normal high speeds, but blocks most p2p ports, radio streams, xbox live, etc. Then Filetopia should work. uTorrent, even with encryption enabled usually will not work.

    @phalkon30: When I can't find something on Filetopia, I'll just Google something like "blah blah rapidshare" or "blah blah megaupload" or "blah blah yousendit" ... you get the idea. It works very well.

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