Univ Now Blocks LimeWire - Workaround?
 

We came back from winter break to find our school has blocked access to all Gnutella clients (and someone also said a lot of the torrent clients are somehow banned too). I tried the whole thing with a proxy but it still shows me behind a firewall. I got a program called FreeCap and used the proxy in that and ran LimeWire and still no success.

I assumed this meant they were blocking the necessary ports but I saw that link to http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ and it worked, so that can't mean the port is open. I saw other things regarding port forwarding but all of that looks like something you'd do if you had your own router, not going through the school's like we essentially are.

Any ideas?

The proxy settings are about all you can try, but I've not heard of people having much success with that option.

Really, the only reasonable path is to try to communicate and co-operate with your univ's IT guys, and see if something can be worked out. Over a few brew in the pub, maybe they can suggest something like LAN sharing within the univ network, bandwidth caps outside of regular office hours, or other ideas that protect the network from the tremendous bandwidth a bunch of students can happily use up :)

What about this HTTP-Tunnel thing? I'd be willing to pay an extra couple bucks a month to get P2P again.

With all the open wireless networks around, you should be able to find one that will give you P2P ;)

It's true that a lot of people have wireless routers set up, but they eventually go through the ResNet anyways...

Anyways we figured it out. Disable Windows Firewall and use a proxy, simple enough.