My college limits bandwidth usage for any application that is not a browser. This includes games, chat programs, and file-sharing programs. So...is there any way around this?
There's some program out there that shows all transfers, at least requests for torrent parts, as pure http browser packets. Google it or something. This may work for all types of packets, not just torrents.
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Anonymoose2008-01-08 13:41
WRRRRRYYYYYYYYY!!!!
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Anonymous2008-01-08 14:29
>>5
The only way I can see that working is if it's routing all your traffic through a proxy that translates the HTTP packets into what they're actually supposed to be.
Is that how it works? Because if so, make sure you encrypt everything that matters.
Not that you shouldn't be doing that anyway, especially on a college network.
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Anonymous2008-01-09 20:46
>>7
In my college, only authorised users get to use encrypted traffic. All other forms of encrypted traffic have a very low QOS.
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Anonymous2008-01-11 5:40
>>8
You wouldn't be encrypting the traffic as a whole, just the content, since you'd be putting it into HTTP packets anyway. Your college network would have no way of telling that traffic from really crappy webpages, if it's done right.
Of course, that's assuming it works like >>7 says.