How Do You Overcome University Network/Internet Restrictions (Timeout, Bittorrent, Etc)?
Read your university’s network access policy and figure out what they do and don’t allow. I’ve found that some university networks will disable bittorrent traffic by blocking the typical port ranges to incoming traffic, but then they’ll go and do something completely ridiculous like allow webservers on resident machines for “academic purposes.” A, uh, friend of mine, just routed all the incoming bittorrent traffic into port 80 and was all set. I’m curious about what you mean when you say “kicked off.” I’m assuming you mean the timeout on the FTP server where your web stuff is hosted, but that wouldn’t have anything to do with the university (unless it was providing the hosting). If they’re renewing your DHCP lease every 20 mins, that’s a little extreme.
