Comments on: Download a torrent from behind a firewall

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:12:11 +0000

@Will Pk: It's not something I have a whole lot of experience with, but here's what you'll need to find out in order to do it yourself:

How to do port forwarding with your SSH (probably dynamic forwarding, maybe also reverse forwarding), most likely either PuTTY or OpenSSH
Whether you want a full server, a remote terminal, or just a proxy (and how much it will cost you)
What the bandwidth and traffic policies of the service are

If you just want tunneling for a specific protocol, you may want to investigate more specialized services. For instance, I've heard of a bit torrent traffic anonymizer service that seemed pretty reputable. (I don't recall the name.)

And hey, if you manage to set something up... blog about it!

By: Will Pk

Will Pk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:04:56 +0000

"get a server slice elsewhere in the world and SSH tunnel your traffic through that box."

How do you go about doing that? can you write a quick guide on it?

Thanks in advance

Will.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:31:24 +0000

Alright, thanks.

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:26:33 +0000

@Stephen: Northeastern does not block downloading of .torrent files or bittorrent traffic in general, though they may throttle the traffic to reduce network load.

Registration is a common practice now at universities. I don't like it one bit, but I understand why they do it. If you don't want them snooping on your traffic (since they claim a right to do so), get a server slice elsewhere in the world and SSH tunnel your traffic through that box.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:55:59 +0000

so I'm attending Northeastern and I was wondering how easy it is to torrent, they told me I have to register my mac address with resnet and all that. any words of advice?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:24:09 +0000

oh okay, just thougt it still would help, when it helped Michael.