college firewall

[NetRyder]

Is the dorm room on the university's property and are you paying for the dorm room as part of your tuition? You are also paying for your fat-pipe internet connection through tuition. The thing is that you own neither one of these things. You are essentially leasing both your housing and internet connection from the college. Double-check your TOS and AUP that the college gave you. The college has all the right in the world to limit what you do with their bandwidth because they own the network and all the people using the network for unauthorized purposes (ie filesharing) hamper the use of the network by the very people it was created for... the students and educators for educational purposes.

If you want unfettered access then get an outside account (ie DSL) and download to your hearts content.

I'm not trying to sound like an idiot, btw. I'm just being realistic.

rotjong

That's just the way it is.

 

[FishBoy]

Is the dorm room on the university's property and are you paying for the dorm room as part of your tuition? You are also paying for your fat-pipe internet connection through tuition. The thing is that you own neither one of these things. You are essentially leasing both your housing and internet connection from the college. Double-check your TOS and AUP that the college gave you. The college has all the right in the world to limit what you do with their bandwidth because they own the network and all the people using the network for unauthorized purposes (ie filesharing) hamper the use of the network by the very people it was created for... the students and educators for educational purposes.

If you want unfettered access then get an outside account (ie DSL) and download to your hearts content.

I'm not trying to sound like an idiot, btw. I'm just being realistic.

rotjong

it's college and im paying around 2500 dollars for the room and college internet is free

 

[mrowton]

setting up local port forwarding might work, but if you get too much stuff thru certain ports it may cause packet collisions.

bullpoop

 

[Reg]

When I worked for my IT department at my University, they used a system called Packeteer. The device sits between the core router and the routers to the various student networks. The sole purpose of this device is to throttle bandwidth to non-essential services and restrict access at certain times by reading the packet information. For normal HTTP traffic, things were pretty fast. For file sharing apps, IF you connected, it was slow. Unfortunately, there is no bypass to these systems as they are hardware sitting between you and the internet. Since there is no other way to the internet except through that device, you're out of luck on your university network.

 

[_kC_]

why not buy/borrow your music, rent movies

 

[med103]

Downloading

Two things, all colleges have CD/LP/Video librarys that students can borrow from for free. You'll get better sound quality, not in trouble and faster and more reliable songs. Go check it out and if for some reason there isn't check the local library. These are both excellent free options and you might also run across something you've never even heard of. Second go work for the college radio station and get music galore. There are many options.
Good Luck and Stop all the downloading (extra points for knowing the context)

 

[the_music_man]

yeah colleges have video libraries and best part is that its free for the students