Using BT on campus

Grundlterror

I have a friend who is studying abroad in Sheffield, England. He is staying on campus there and he needs to port forward so he can use Azureus. The internet connection is through an ethernet cable. Is there any way for him to open the port or get the port opened... or possibly a work around to this? If he is able to find out if there is a network administrator on his campus, would it be suspicious of him to ask to get a port opened?

SpongeCake

Most Universities have pretty heavy firewalls in the UK, I would assume the only safe way to actually solve the problem would be to ask a network admin, however if he's planning on using Azureus to download illegal stuff then he risks fucking up his entire education and getting thrown out. Trying to solve the problem himself has the same risks with an even greater "suspicious" factor.
Just tell him to deal with the lack of decent 'Net access until he can find his own place or he could end up in some serious trouble.

Pojaco

Try ports in the 24000 range, use uTorrent, and encrypt the traffic (settings under Preferences > uTorrent) Tell him to keep trying ports 24000 and higher. If he wanted to actually ask to have a port range opened, he could say it was for gaming...

This is assuming all the Azureus activity is legal :roll:

Zek

Odds are the college has bittorrent ports blocked intentionally. I wish mine would do that, I'm pretty fucking sick of all the bandwidth being hogged day and night by people like your friend.

Nexus Zero

He should ask around and see if there's an underground internal network of any kind. I forgot what the program was but everyone used it back in the first year and the speeds were just phenomenal, and you could download pretty much any TV show or movie you wanted.

Fawkes

Far as I remember, best chance is to befriend someone studying computer science or similar in his halls, they are most likely to know the workaround for the internal network.

Also depends on how competent their network admin is, we used to get away with murder when I was in halls (snatched six Simpsons series in a day, must have been half the copyright library of EMI or whoever over the year, had massive but superfast LAN games of Delta Force or whatever us younguns played back in the day), but this was late 90's, and we were pretty much ahead of the curve before filesharing became a huge issue.