University is blocking the downloading of torrents. Is there a way around this?

Hello,

I live off-campus, but go to school and work on-campus. My university really doesn't block anything on our internet. Except, it seems, torrents. Now, I can go to torrent sites, like PirateBay and whatnot, and I can download the actual torrent file, but when I'm in my torrent client (uTorrent, in my case, though I've tested this on Tixati as well), I cannot download the file until I get home to my own personal internet. Is there a way I can get around this block my school seems to have put on downloading torrents? I've noticed sometimes that if I leave it long enough, it will start to download, but only at about 5-10 kbps. So not enough to put even a dent in downloading it. I know there's a proxy to get to the torrent sites, but as I said, that's not where the issue lies. Is there some sort of proxy to mask the actual downloading process?

Thanks!

Can use a VPN or do a proxy server within uTorrent I think should work.

I'm using a Proxy server (I forgot I even did it until I was looking at settings the other way.) Which just is just a Socks4 protocol, no idea how well it is in stopping my ISP from noticing what I'm downloading tho, hopefully enough I guess.

So just google how to use a proxy with utorrent and look at a few of them, see what way you want to go, HTTP, HTTPS(if it exist yet.) Socks4, or Socks5, Might have to try a few different ones while at your University, see what one works the best for you.

If you have anymore questions on this, feel free to ask.

Okay, this now allows me to download torrents, but with a catch. I have to start the download somewhere off-campus, using an internet connection that is not affiliated with the school's. Once I get on-campus, it will continue to download. But if I try to initiate the download on-campus, it won't work. While it's not the easy solution I was hoping for, it's still better than what I was working with, which was the school blocking the download no matter where I initiated it.

Thank you!

Use a VPN. Try SecurityKiss, it's pretty fast and you can choose from a few servers.

Ah, that is a good one! I've tried other VPN softwares, but I've found them confusing. This oen was as simple as clicking a button, and suddenly I seem to have transported myself across the country...

As I am now on Thanksgiving break, I'll have to wait until Monday to give this a go at the school.

Thank you!

http://www.technize.net/securitykiss-a-free-vpn-software-for-windows/[/mention] wrote:Please note that the free version only allows you a maximum bandwidth of 300MB/day and you can only browse the Internet through the free account. If you want to download stuff from torrents, you will need to go for a paid version which only costs around $5.

So, Yeah, it won't work with torrents unless you do the paid version.

Most VPN do that, free version lacks Torrent support, just because torrenting is a big data user, so lacking support saves them money.