computer help please! RE: PORTS

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my uni has made it so filesharing apps, bittorrent and ftp clients don't work.

the FTP client is the main problem because i run a website! im guessing they have just blocked some ports so you can't accept connections.

is there any way around this?

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

Unlikely, unless you approach them and explain you run a website and can show it is a legitimate use of their network for your site, and have the FTP port (21, probably) unblocked for your IP perhaps...

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

(ie they may allow you to FTP out, as long as you can show you wont be FTP downloading warez and wotnot)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Whatever you do dont say you make money from this website, JA.net have strict rules regarding this.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

oh i dont make money from it.

this is annoying i was hoping to be able to download the new arrested development season as it came on via bittorrent.

but most important is the website. if i can't update that then that sucks.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

The uni has to protect itself, you'd technically be putting them in deep legal doo doo bitorrenting a TV show on their network. A lot of ISPs rate limit the bejeezuz out of P2P nowadays.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah i see your point.

i may have found a programme to help me out with the FTP thing anyway. called 'HTTP-tunnel'. It forwards your port and makes it so they can't monitor what you're doing on the net.

but most importantly it opens up FTP and technically filesharing apps but that isn't important.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Do you still have to pay for good bandwidth on HTTP-tunnel?

Get one friend outside the network with SSH.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

How annoying that you can't use their bandwidth to steal stuff. The youth of today don't half expect stuff on a plate.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Bittorrent requires you to upload as you download and share the stuff, so technically it's more like borrowing than stealing: discuss.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Borrowing from who?

I've had to deal with letters from the licensing organisations regarding people bit torrenting on the JA.net connection here, let me tell you we don't mess around with legal semantics we found who did it and then we reprimand them severely, some guy almost got sacked over episodes of Star Gate Atlantis. Students get fines and the withdrawal of access to university networks at our discretion.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Borrowing, cos you give it back, innit.

(Don't worry, I'm just trolling)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

time to learn about onion routing and http tunnels. welcome to college

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

onion routing sounds yummy

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

your mucous membranes may not agree

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it sounds that yummy if you're using "routing" in the Australian sense.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

the "I share it as well" argument doesnt wash when you're the one running a network and have to explain to those who actually NEED the bandwidth for oh I dunno, proper research or work or whatever "oh Im sorry, everyone's suffering today because someone is leeching and flooding the network".

Still...

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

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