Thread: university firewall

Does anyone know how to bypass University firewall? I can basically surf, but I can't seem to use uTorrent.

Try changing your incoming connection port to 80,443 or 8080 and use encryption.

Originally Posted by Vogue

Does anyone know how to bypass University firewall? I can basically surf, but I can't seem to use uTorrent.

I would recommend looking into a seedbox, or getting some kind of online OpenVPN peer. If the university wants to throttle or stop torrents, it will be hard to do anything (assuming their IT is competent) without having an online proxy of some sort (seedbox or VPN server).

Yeah, you need to try proxy but a vpn tunnel would be the best for you. There are some free services available like proxpn or cyberghost.

i got around my university's throttle by using port 80 in utorrent like scoobie said. Worked about 75% of the time

Originally Posted by scoobie

Try changing your incoming connection port to 80,443 or 8080 and use encryption.

Enable encryption? I'm using uTorrent MAC, does that mean I've to enable the "Outgoing Encryption"? I tried, they don't seem to work. :\

Originally Posted by canadianguy

I would recommend looking into a seedbox, or getting some kind of online OpenVPN peer. If the university wants to throttle or stop torrents, it will be hard to do anything (assuming their IT is competent) without having an online proxy of some sort (seedbox or VPN server).

Originally Posted by kingscorpion

Yeah, you need to try proxy but a vpn tunnel would be the best for you. There are some free services available like proxpn or cyberghost.

I tried downloading proxpn - but everytime I try to connect it keeps saying Operation Timed Out. Cyberghost is banned from the university websites apparently, it gives me a foo.bar error..

yes, sure I agree with kingscorpion, in addition if you need help on that you can go with Hak5.org, you will find excellent video

Originally Posted by Vogue

Enable encryption? I'm using uTorrent MAC, does that mean I've to enable the "Outgoing Encryption"? I tried, they don't seem to work. :\

did u you select force under outgoing encryption?

Originally Posted by inviteslayer

did u you select force under outgoing encryption?

I used "Enable" - but I tried "Force" now. Still nothing. :(