Vipul Jain asks:
I have searched a lot before posting here and none of the old methods work for me (I have tried TorrentRelay, txtor, preferences to forced in uTorrent). I am told torrent downloading is blocked in my college. I can download torrent files and open torrent sites but when i start it in uTorrent nothing downloads. 0 seeds, 0 leechers with a speed of 0kb/s and yes – the torrent is healthy.
So what new techniques are there for bypassing this kind of restriction?
5 Answers -
Bruce Epper
July 13, 2012Use an encrypted VPN tunnel (premium most likely required) to get around restrictions. I have heard that DarknetVPN works well.
Mike
July 13, 2012Download at home… since it is not your own network you should comply with the rules.
Downloading torrent may not only ‘use’ your schools bandwidth but may cause both technical and monetary problems. Torrent causes a lot of packets and open connection which may interfere with other network traffic on your schools network.
In addition educational institutes usually have special deals with the internet provider enabling them to get a high speed internet connection for very little money. If this connection is abused there is a good chance that the provider will cancel the deal forcing your whole institute to pay a lot of money for an appropriate line.
Vipul Jain
July 13, 2012actually there are no rules here. i have paid a hefty amount for MBA and accommodation so i am pretty sure i can use this.
Not just this others are downloading stuff as well through direct links and so do i, but i want many TV shows and movies that are too old and can be found only on Torrents.
and Bruce i would need a free workaround as if i had to pay i would just get myself a USB Internet Dongle.
so any ideas?
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You automatically agree to campus rules by using the network even if you never got a written copy of them.
Also there is a big difference between direct downloads and Torrent:
A direct download opens a single (usually not more than 4) connections to a server at a relatively constant downstream.
Torrent (depending on the settings) opens thousands of connections with fluctuating down- and upstream. This puts a lot of strain on all participating network components (switches, router, gateway).
Except for the bandwidth usage a single torrent download can cause as much device utilization as e.g. 50 people running direct downloads.
Having that said there is another thing called “copyright infringement”. If your institute ever get’s into trouble you can be sure they will be quite radical with the students ~ and those running Torrent will be the first they look into.
July 13, 2012It happened on my old school and the guy was kicked out within a week.
1. I’m from India and unfortunately no one gives a damn about copyright here. So that is straight out of the question.
July 13, 20122. Now lets assume you’re right about multiple channels opening and slowing everyone down, if thats so, let torrents alone, do you or anyone know about some sites FREE of course that allow torrents to direct conversion and are still active?
You are of course free to use and do whatever you want.
I was just trying to point out that there are differences between ‘no rules’ and ‘not being aware of them’. I particular like how Oron put it in his comment ~ that is spot on.
If Torrent seems to be blocked using regular ways your best chance is a VPN tunneling service that allows Torrent e.g. https://btguard.com/
But I highly recommend to test-drive VPN before paying for a service because while the traffic through VPN is invisible for the operator it is quite easy to block VPN connection all together.
Personally I don’t know any free direct download service. Only the regular sites linking to rapidshare and co. like http://www.filestube.com
July 13, 2012Oron
July 13, 2012Vipul,
If there is no prohibition on using torrents on campus, simply contact IT and ask for help! More than likely they have blocked it for technical/legal reasons and the rules prohibit you from using it. If I were you I would not risk my degree for something as basic as this (I used to work at the Uni. and have seen students and staff being kicked out for breaking IT regulations).
Good luck!
Vipul Jain
July 14, 2012Oron & Mike i agree and have dropped the idea of doing whats restricted i.e. dwnlding via torrents.
Just need to know, that do you know of any sites that can convert torrent to direct links for me, like i found boxopus but it needs an invite code for registration :/
nah, it would be better to find the DDL version of the torrent by just copying the name of the torrent on a search engine. Most of the time I found a few from your usual sharing sites uploaded by some other people.
July 20, 2012Vipul……………u can convert Torrent to direct download through ZBIGZ.COM
July 27, 2012Thanks Khurram… ZBIGZ.com works perfectly
October 22, 2012