Getting Around University Protection

All right, so here's my situation; a situation I'm sure some people here are familiar with. I'm at a university, and at the particular university I'm at (I'm not sure how many universities do this) blocks the ports needed to use BitTorrent, Soulseek, etc. Is there any way to get around this? I'd love to be able to use these programs, especially considering there is NO place to buy a CD in this town (I'm not kidding, either).

Can anyone help a music-less college student steal some tracks from dead artists?

 

You can change the ports of most of these programs, if I am not mistaken.

 

yea, my school has also closed that door for us too. we can't use P2P or torrent downloaders...so i go out looking for websites that host mp3, usually they are music blogs and they link to places like rapidshare and others like that which i'm able to download full albums from.

 

Okay, I tried this technique, and it worked... at first. The first time I tried to download something, it worked fine. I downloaded a file containing a few Captain Beefheart songs. After that, however, I haven't been able to download anything else. I think I've somehow already reached the download limit or something. Have you had the same problem?

 

well, on rapidshare, theres an hourly limit on how much you can download if your not a premium member. so i do deal with that. but other than that type of stuff, i haven't had a problem yet.

 

Okay, so I guess you can download one thing each hour then. It's a bit inconvenient, but it's still worth it. I already got a really nice album on there, so I guess I can't complain.

 

yea, its a bit inconveniant, but it works...plus, you might find other downloads from other sites such as megaupload...theres a bunch out there, not just rapidshare. i don't think megaupload has an hourly limit either. its all about finding whats out there. i'm always getting downloads of music from artists that i've never heard of until now.

 

Change the ports..

 

re: chang the ports..in your client config, try changing it to use common ports like 443, 25, 21,

Are you using your computer, or their computer?

 

I'm using my own laptop, an iBook.

 

try mIRC, it wasn't blocked at all when I was in the dorms

 

Most college campuses use packet throttling insread of port blocking, which would make changing ports useless. Try starting a campuswide dc++ hub or use i2hub if your school has internet2.

Alex

 

heh, message me on AIM for help my AIM is pybass@mac.com yes it is pybass@mac.com (an AIM adress)

 

The cheap bastard cant afford a computer. "even a used one".

 

Yeah, I am having pretty much the same problem, after downloading a part 1 of an album from the chocoreve website you gave me, I haven't been able to download anything.

 

the funny thing is that BitTorrent and P2P works here, but rapidshare doesn't. And the stuff I want is on rapidshare.

 

I am now using BitTorrent. :H I installed a VPN Client, and now torrents are no obstacle.