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| sweatpants United States. December 04 2006 14:37. Posts 940 | Profile # |
With a lot of help, I finally figured out a way around my school's tireless efforts to stop me from using torrents. I commend NetOps on a hard-fought battle, gg. They employed a three pronged strategy:
(If you don't want to relive my drama, skip to the "How to do it" parts)
1. Blocking BitTorrent protocol < Protocol Encryption
To get around the most obvious block, you just need to download the right BitTorrent client(program). Any client that supports Protocol Encryption (P.E.) is fine. I don't know exactly how it works, but it makes it so you can transfer with anyone else that has P.E. enabled. The majority of people that have to use P.E. are the ones blocked on college campuses with very nice connections, so there's a huge amount of bandwidth transfer between them. Note: If any of you norms want to tap into our black-market bandwidth, you just have to enable P.E.
How to do it:
For Windows users, I recommend uTorrent. I like it because it's lightweight and straightforward but still supports the needed features.
http://download.utorrent.com/1.6/utorrent.exe
For Windows/Mac/Linux, Azureus. I used to use this but then I got annoyed with all those extraneous doodads, and uTorrent was simpler to configure.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php?os=1
With uTorrent, I did the following:
Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > the last frame is Protocol Encryption
Outgoing: Enabled
Allow Incoming Legacy Connections: Checked (I don't know what this is, I just checked it for the hell of it)
If you're not using uTorrent, it shouldn't be hard to find something like that in your client's configuration.
2 and 3. Blocking tracker connections + Blocking download of .torrent extensions < Proxy Server
NetOps changed up their attack strategy a few times. For a while, I couldn't download anything that ended in .torrent. Very few torrent sites have torrents as .txt files, and it was somehow smart enough to block those, too. Some weekends, a new VOD would be released and I wouldn't be able to get a hold of my friends who sent me torrents. In my desperation, I ended up having to download things for people in exchange for a .torrent file.. like a cheap whore for her latest fix. Those days are behind me now.
One day, though, I found that I could actually download a .torrent file. I thought it might be a fluke, so I tried downloading several more. Success! With skeptical excitement, I cautiously opened the files in uTorrent to find... not a single tracker was working. uTorrent would be able to transfer if it just knew who to transfer with. Damn you. Damn you, NetOps, for using such cruel tactics.
I had heard of proxy servers, but the two problems I had were that I didn't have a spare computer off campus to run the server, and I didn't like the idea of my amazing bandwidth being bottlenecked by my crappy connection at home. The Solutions: There are lots of free proxy servers online, and uTorrent lets you proxy the tracker connection without proxying the actual peer-to-peer connections. This lets me hide a connection to the trackers so my torrents can see who to transfer with. Then, Protocol Encryption does the rest of the work.
How to do it:
You can Google for free proxies, but I couldn't get any of them to work. So I used this thing called Your Freedom.
http://www.your-freedom.net/
Once you register, you have access to their network of proxy servers. Then they have you download the Your Freedom program, which connects you to the optimal server.
Then you have your torrent program connect to the Your Freedom program. With uTorrent, I did:
Options > Preferences > Connection > the second frame Proxy Server
Type: Socks4
Proxy: localhost
Port: 1080
(make sure to have "use proxy server for peer-to-peer connections" UNchecked)
Connect Your Freedom and start up your torrents, voila.
I also imagine that if .torrent files are blocked again, I can just connect FireFox/IE to the Your Freedom program to download the file.
If your campus employs other tactics, post here. I'm sure the Proxy Server/PE combo can find a way around it. If not, we'll just have to find other ways to stick it to the man!
Thanks, ToT)SiLeNcE(, ManaBlue and Manifesto7 for your initial help with the tracker, and thanks Haemonculus for sending me .torrent files. Plus, props to uTorrent for running a helpful forum.
PS. If iNcontroL ever asks you to make a random wish, do it.
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This is a cool alternative for those who want to avoid this torrent mess altogether. Thanks Musli!
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On January 21 2007 02:39 Musli wrote:u can use also www.torrent2ftp.com - register, upload torrent, site will dl it and u will dl it from their ftp  simple and practical, unfortunately only torrents up to 1Gb for free user - u can buy premium too ;]
Specific issues:
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On December 04 2006 15:06 5HITCOMBO wrote:
Depending on whether or not your ISP has a packeteer, this may or may not work. The company that I work for has one. It blocks protocol encryption.
In this case, you want to proxy both the tracker connections and the peer-to-peer connections. To do that, you have to check in the "use proxy server for peer-to-peer connections" checkbox on uTorrent. Of course, this means that the proxy server now has to relay the huge amounts of torrent data. Free proxy servers don't allow a lot of bandwidth, so you will probably have to limit the speeds on your torrents. In the case of Your Freedom, you're limited to 64kb/s upload and download. You can become a paying member for faster speeds.
Last edit: 2007-04-17 05:58:35 |
| | Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea |
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| decafchicken United States. December 04 2006 14:41. Posts 15327 | Profile Blog # |
Thanks, useful post 
lol @ last line :-p |
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 thedeadhaji December 04 2006 14:42. Posts 23290 | Profile Blog # |
great post 
now i can link anyone who says "torrents no worky" to this thread
The 30 mins it might take to set this up should be well worth their time~ |
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 IntoTheWow is awesome. December 04 2006 14:50. Posts 31041 | Profile Blog # |
| Nice post Last edit: 2006-12-04 14:50:33 |
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| chrusher97 Canada. December 04 2006 14:52. Posts 789 | Profile Blog # |
| Thanks, Torrents arent working at my university, im gonna try this. |
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| sweatpants United States. December 04 2006 14:53. Posts 940 | Profile # |
| Actually, the post is big because I got theatrical (lol, sorry). In terms of actual steps, they are few and short. I'd say you could do this in like 10 minutes. |
| | Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea |
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| thedeadhaji December 04 2006 14:54. Posts 23290 | Profile Blog # |
it makes it easy to follow though
maybe you can add something like, "if you dont want to relive my life drama, skip to bottom of post"
then write a condensed step by step thing there. |
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| sweatpants United States. December 04 2006 15:02. Posts 940 | Profile # | |
| | Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea |
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 5HITCOMBO Japan. December 04 2006 15:06. Posts 2239 | Profile # |
| Depending on whether or not your ISP has a packeteer, this may or may not work. The company that I work for has one. It blocks protocol encryption. |
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| sweatpants United States. December 04 2006 15:21. Posts 940 | Profile # |
On December 04 2006 15:06 5HITCOMBO wrote:
Depending on whether or not your ISP has a packeteer, this may or may not work. The company that I work for has one. It blocks protocol encryption.
I don't know what a packateer is, but I hadn't thought about PE being blocked. Thanks for bringing it up, I answered it in the first post so more people could see. |
| | Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea |
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 ManaBlue Canada. December 04 2006 17:13. Posts 10458 | Profile Blog # |
Very nice post.
More people should know how to configure their torrent client properly. It helps everyone in the swarm. |
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| Metal[x] China. December 05 2006 12:38. Posts 5330 | Profile Blog # |
| has anyone heard of the university limiting the bandwith that is able to be transferred? i think mine does tihs?!?! |
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| sweatpants United States. December 05 2006 15:02. Posts 940 | Profile # |
| Are you talking about limiting just BitTorrent bandwidth or global bandwidth? I'm sure every university limits their students' bandwidths (for example, I'm limited to about 4 gigs a day), but I've never encountered BitTorrent bandwidth being targeted |
| | Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea |
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| Refrain[FriZ] Canada. December 05 2006 21:10. Posts 4336 | Profile # |
hey sweatpants, nice post - but I think there's one major problem I've tried to google for help but I can't figure out. I'm using 1.6 uTorrent - and I'm experiencing very slow or non-existant download speeds. I think that I have narrowed it down to my ports not being open: When I click Speed Guide and ask uTorrent to check if my port (I have it set at 61804) is open or not if says no. So I'm like, ok it's not open (this is when I connect through a hardline routing it through a LinkSys BEFSR41v2 router), which is weird because before it was working fine with the router and everything and I didn't have to fix anything. So this problem crops up now where I get the exclamation mark at the bottom. Now, when I close and then first open uTorrent, it seems to download a bit (I am getting SOME upload/download, mind you, these are huge torrents with thousands of peers and slowly it peters out to zero; when I close and restart uTorrent it lets me download a bit then stops again. Something's obviously wrong with my connection) Not cool!
So, after some google self-learning I opened up my router's setup and modified it to open the port for the application Utor1, enabling both protocols and setting it to my IP 192.168.1.1. After resetting router and connections and making sure settings were applied I restarted uTorrent lots of times - to no avail; the port still isn't open! wtf. I tried setting up a static IP using internet TCP/IP in my network connections but that fucked up my internet in general so I put it back to automatically detect IP and DNS servers.I don't run any other p2p so I"m pretty sure that port is not being used by any other application - it works almost flawlessly on my university campus network!
Please help me and if you need any more information or clarification please ask.
Edit: Here's a log of my Your Freedom info; taken from when I start uTorrent
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1: stopping all ports
0: sending authentication
1: Server version: 20061201-01
0: Received server identity: ems05.your-freedom.de:213.251.134.46
0: received profile information
1: AUTH_OK: Authentication accepted
1: starting ports
0: ---
Profile Free Freedom
bw_uplink 65536
bw_downlink 65536
bind_permitted true
relay_permitted false
fairqueue true
numports 0
streams 6
streams_pending 20
streams_per_sec 20
ports none
dst_acl
permit any all
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0: ALT: 66.96.216.181 44313
0: ALT: 212.227.97.160 295309
0: ALT: 67.159.5.116 63940
0: ALT: 213.251.177.14 334109
0: ALT: 81.169.143.195;85.214.23.14 44202
0: ALT: 213.251.134.46 41937
0: ALT: 213.251.134.44 49450
0: signalling bw_downlink=0
0: signalling bw_uplink=0
0: Unregistering stream 134
1: 193.138.231.142:2710 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 85.17.40.38:80 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
0: Unregistering stream 142
1: 85.17.42.204:3390 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 85.17.42.204:3394 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 85.226.197.83:6969 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 69.64.61.50:2710 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 85.17.42.204:3395 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 69.64.61.50:2710 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 85.17.42.204:3392 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 85.17.36.114:-5036 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
0: Unregistering stream 152
1: 72.145.81.162:6969 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
1: 85.17.42.204:3395 streams limit exceeded (5+1)
0: Unregistering stream 144
0: Unregistering stream 148
0: Unregistering stream 128
0: Unregistering stream 150
0: Unregistering stream 136
0: Unregistering stream 130
0: Unregistering stream 138
0: Unregistering stream 140
0: Unregistering stream 146
0: Unregistering stream 124
0: Unregistering stream 122
0: Unregistering stream 118
0: Unregistering stream 120
0: Unregistering stream 126
0: Unregistering stream 132
0: Unregistering stream 158
0: Unregistering stream 156
0: ALT: 212.227.97.160 181170
0: ALT: 213.251.134.46 43143
0: ALT: 213.251.134.44 46969
0: ALT: 213.251.177.14 413701
0: ALT: 66.96.216.181 44085
0: ALT: 67.159.5.116 65159
0: ALT: 81.169.143.195;85.214.23.14 44774
0: Unregistering stream 154
0: Unregistering stream 160
0: Unregistering stream 174
1: 85.226.197.83:6969 streams limit exceeded (4+2)
1: 85.17.42.204:3390 streams limit exceeded (4+2)
0: Unregistering stream 176
1: 85.17.42.204:3395 streams limit exceeded (4+2)
0: Unregistering stream 178
1: 207.210.89.146:6969 streams limit exceeded (4+2)
0: Unregistering stream 180
1: 85.17.42.204:3394 streams limit exceeded (4+2)
0: Unregistering stream 182
0: Unregistering stream 162
0: Unregistering stream 164
0: Unregistering stream 168
0: Unregistering stream 170
0: Unregistering stream 172
0: Unregistering stream 166
1: 85.17.40.39:80 unable to connect to remote end, reason: timeout
0: Unregistering stream 184
0: IO errror while faking SOCKS
0: IO errror while faking SOCKS
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Also: interesting message in my torrents under "Tracker Status" - Proxy error: Bad socks4 reply 2. among others  Last edit: 2006-12-05 21:47:20 |
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| Dknight United States. December 05 2006 21:39. Posts 4138 | Profile Blog # |
Finally, I can use the Torrent Tracker here!
It seems that my browser is a lot slower now, even when nothing is downloading or uploading on the tracker. Could this be attributed to Your-Freedom?
Edit: Weird. Seems as if only TL is slower than other sites. And it takes a while to just download the torrent itself before I can put it on uTorrent.Last edit: 2006-12-05 21:43:42 |
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 GrandInquisitor  New York City. December 05 2006 21:52. Posts 7947 | Profile Blog # |
Our school just limits upload bandwidth.
BAM no torrenting ever T_T |
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 Nyovne Netherlands. December 06 2006 00:46. Posts 17480 | Profile # |
This works, just notifying.
Alot of gratitude from several mates of mine!
p.s. theatrical shit ownz. |
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 alffla Hong Kong. December 06 2006 04:10. Posts 20261 | Profile Blog # |
WTF AUTHENTICATION FAILED
whats that..!?
arh |
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| sweatpants United States. December 06 2006 09:41. Posts 940 | Profile # |
Hey Refrain, I'm just not clear on a couple of things. From your post, I gather that torrents work/worked for you when you were on campus, but not when you are/were off campus. And your problem happens when you're off campus, behind a LinkSys BEFSR41v2 router. Is all of that right?
When I click Speed Guide and ask uTorrent to check if my port (I have it set at 61804) is open or not if says no. So I'm like, ok it's not open (this is when I connect through a hardline routing it through a LinkSys BEFSR41v2 router), which is weird because before it was working fine with the router and everything and I didn't have to fix anything.
When does "before" refer to?
Have you been having that problem since after you installed Your Freedom? Or have you been having it from before?
Also: interesting message in my torrents under "Tracker Status" - Proxy error: Bad socks4 reply 2. among others
When have you been getting this message? Before or after Your Freedom?
I'm just asking these questions because there's a possibility that you don't need the Your Freedom proxy to solve this problem. I used it because my school was specifically blocking tracker communication, and I needed to find a way around. But if you're having these problems off campus and using a personal router, it might not be an issue of blocking, but just a router issue.
If you didn't have the "Tracker Status" error before you installed Your Freedom, then remove Your Freedom and the proxy rules from uTorrent for now. Answer the above questions and it'll be easier to figure out a solution if we narrow down the possibilities.
So this post isn't completely empty, I did a little research and found that the Linksys BEFSR41V4, a later version of your router, is known to have issues with too many global connections. Reducing the global connections to less than 200 solved the issue. (Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > Number of Connections frame)
This might make sense of the fact that your transfer speeds peter down to zero, i.e. as you connect to more and more people, the router messes up. |
| | Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea |
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| sweatpants United States. December 06 2006 09:44. Posts 940 | Profile # |
| Dknight, did you still have that browser problem or was it just TL. I know it was going a little slow for me last night. |
| | Perfect. Plays low-econ, high-econ, plays orthodox, plays funky, plays Mozart, plays Run-DMC. Micro, macro, strategy, management, fundamentals, and balls the size of Brazil. He plays Zerg the way the Xel Naga intended - like a ball of mercury. -HonestTea |
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