Thread: Seedboxes and University.

Hello.

I'm going to uni to study Wildlife Conservation and i really want to do some torrenting, but the IT department get suspicious if there is high ammount of traffic comming to and from one computer. (i'd rather have a place at uni than getting kicked out for a music album!)

I am thinking about seedbox's... would they hide the large traffic that torrents bring? (and also give me a damn good ratio lol) I was reading up on them, and you need something like cuteFTP to get the torrents from the server to you hard drive [if im correct?] does this count as a large ammount of traffic?

Thank you & sorry it's long winded.



Frogname.

I think no matter what shape of downloading you use "http, ftp, torrent" it will still be consider the same traffic amount

but there are two bright side when you use FTP and not Torrent

1) you will not be obligate to upload "if your uni upload speed is high, the traffic amount will be reduce"
2) you will be a great buffer on trackers you are in .

Having seedbox is a very good idea in this situation. I download about 10% of total traffic generated during month time on my box. What is more ftp/http traffic is much less suspicious than anything else. You can always claim that you try different linux distribution each day:D
Little explain how it works. You have remote client like utorrent. You can download and seed any torrents you want. If you want something to store on your local computer just use any ftp client (filezilla, fxp, cuteFtp) to download it.

Thank you both, perfect replies. I will deffently be looking into that =]

If you want to build a big buffer on torrent sites then a seedbox is definitely the way to go. Everything you upload end download in the seedbox will not count as traffic since its from peers to seedbox not peers -> direct uni connection. But everything you download from ftp will count as traffic. Who knows you might even get lucky and end up at a university that has its own p2p network, like purdue for example.

I am thinking about seedbox's... would they hide the large traffic that torrents bring?

Yes the seedbox will hide the large amount of torrent traffic from your IT department because it is outside your university network.

I was reading up on them, and you need something like cuteFTP to get the torrents from the server to you hard drive [if im correct?] does this count as a large ammount of traffic?

Most likely your network administrator will notice the amount of bandwidth you consume if you transfer huge files from your seedbox to your PC via FTP or any other service/protocol. There are applications available to do just that. You can, however, attempt to mask your network traffic in a few ways.

You can try using SFTP. Some seedbox providers have SFTP (Secure File Transfer) service on their servers so you can download files securely to your computer by encrypting them. It's a way around network admins who sniff traffic via ftp.

You can then step it further by changing the listen port of your ssh server to that of the web server (Note that you'll need privileged access to your seedbox to do this and you must also change the default web server port or disable the service if there's one running). Doing this will route the sftp traffic from port 22 to port 80 which is the primary port web browsers connect to. The idea here is to attempt to hide your downloads by using the most frequently used port on your university thereby making it a little bit harder for them to find your footprints in the log files.

Lastly, it's probably also a good idea to schedule and do incremental downloads from your seedbox. What I mean is to download only a portion of maybe 100MB each hour then another 100MB next hour and so forth.

Note that I do not guarantee that the above process will work as each network administrator is different and that they probably already know about this trick. Additionally, if they do a quick nslookup of the IP address of your seedbox will yield enough information that will increase their suspicion of your torrent activities.

i think if you need high Buffers accs at Private Trackers then SeedBox will be ur Choice

if you care about traffic Amount that u dl on the pc then dl only what u want to watch or to use