Torrents and College: oh the pain

On April 12 2006 18:58 Knickknack wrote:
http://utorrent.com/

torrent programs havent worked for me. But ive reciently found that utorrent with encryption works. Shrug, see if it works for you.

On April 12 2006 18:32 ManaBlue wrote:
When I was on the univesity LAN in res first year I just used UWGO Lan.

http://www.uwgo.net/

It was pretty popular here. If you try it out you'll probably find that there are already people on it. As far as I knew there was no way to get past the firewalls that blocked certain servers and file sharing tools.

Pro Tip:
When using UWGO search for "*.avi" or "*.mp3" etc. and it will show every file with that file type that is on the network. Since there are so few users you probably won't get search hits for titles or anything. So just do that and browse around.

Good luck.

On April 12 2006 18:47 5HITCOMBO wrote:
I work for the ISP here at my town, and we supply bandwidth to the dorms, which I also happen to live in because I'm a freshmen. I get around it by using microtorrent and putting it through port 6000, which doesn't have any restrictions on it. You could do it by finding a port that works... I would try using ports that are pretty common for high bandwidth usage OR a completely random port. You can test this with programs and such, but the best test is to just test it with bittorrent. I highly suggest microtorrent (known as utorrent, but it's actually a greek letter u, which stands for micro); it's THE BEST and MOST EFFICIENT bittorrent client - it uses less clock time than most clients, but it's more powerful than azereus, not to mention the built-in torrent search function.

On April 12 2006 19:33 AK-Nemesis wrote:
hahahha yeah, it's not microtorrent. mu torrent! spread the word kids!

anyways, uTorrent should work fine. worst comes to worst, try out Ares. it's a p2p designed for newbies and it works well for many of my friends who live in dorms. dont expect to find anything there other than the normal popular music, tv shows, movies tho.

On April 12 2006 19:13 mel_ee wrote:


But ive reciently found that utorrent with encryption works.... care to explain about this encryption? that is, what options do i configure?

On April 12 2006 20:01 Knickknack wrote:


eh just options->prefrences->network->enable protocol encryption and legacy connections.

edit: also torrents for dummies guide: http://justinmaier.com/2006/03/21/torrent-downloading-for-dummies/

From utorrent.com:
["Protocol Encryption (PE) is a joint specification between Azureus and µTorrent. It is designed to bypass throttling and/or blocking of BitTorrent traffic by an ISP.

You can choose Protocol Encryption's mode of operation in Network. Here is an explanation of the various options you can choose from:

* Disabled: Does not encrypt outgoing connections, but will accept encrypted incoming connections.
* Enabled: Attempts to encrypt outgoing connections, but will fall back to an unencrypted mode if the connection fails.
* Force: Attempts to encrypt outgoing connections, and will NOT fall back to an unencrypted mode if the connection fails.
* Allow legacy incoming connections enables or disables incoming legacy (non-encrypted) connections.

All modes will accept incoming encrypted connections (and the encryption is 2-way)!

It is NOT recommended to turn off "Allow legacy incoming connections", unless you cannot have any non-encrypted connections (typically in conjunction with Forced), in which case turning off "Allow legacy incoming connections" is acceptable.]

On April 12 2006 19:16 mel_ee wrote:


i downloaded it and im at the UWGo welcome, on the "Active lan networks" i see nothing under it so i can press join, meaning no one has it at my school? if so, gG =[