I have been trying for some time to torrent at school. They blocked almost every port apart from the necessary ones, (21 80 443 etc.) I finally figured out how to torrent, but with over 200 people accessing the network at once it is fairly slow around 100-200. The speedtest says it has 40mb/s up and down. I dont have admin privileges. Is there a way I can give my IP or computer that I use network priority to give me atleast 1.5mb/s. also I have tested downloading the same thing from home which reaches 1.5mb/s compared to school which is 100-200kbps. Any suggestions will be helpful because i am out of idea.
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And at the moment I am torrenting off a browser using a DL Manager. If someone could tell me how i could torrent off uTorrent directly that would also be very helpful– user124752Mar 26, 2012 at 2:08
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Around 100-200 what? Kbps? KB/s?– David SchwartzMar 26, 2012 at 2:08
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4While you are considering how to get more than your fair share of bandwidth, you might also ponder the notion of the categorical imperative when evaluating your motivations.– Kyle JonesMar 26, 2012 at 3:49
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kb/s kilobytes not bits– user124752Mar 27, 2012 at 6:05
2 Answers
It sounds like your school has you locked down pretty tight. What I would recommend is getting a second computer to download files from home, you could use a Remote Desktop connection to start/check up on downloads or set your torrent software to automatically launch files in a folder and use dropbox (free) to sync it from your laptop to -any other cheap computer-. Or alternatively many NAS devices can download torrent files (such as the Patriot GearBox)
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thanks this is possible, but the reason I am doing it at school is because I do not have much download available (25gb) thats for 5 people in a whole month, difficult to download big stuff like series and things of that nature. Mar 26, 2012 at 6:12
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And yet, in a fair world, this is the most fair answer. +1 for you.– user3463Mar 26, 2012 at 7:26
Have you considered a cooperative arrangement with other downloaders? If you are all getting the same set of shows, maybe you could share or coordinate times.