Opening Ports?

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marello

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Hi,

I'm living in student halls and so my internet is provide over a network that I don't have any access to so I can't configure it etc. All my downloads are extremely slow, but I know that the network is capable of much more because my web browsing speed is extremely fast. So I can only assume that a limit has been put on certain ports. Can anyone tell me if there's any ways to get around this? As they're charging me a stupid amount for a connection that downloads at 1kbps!
 
No way for you to change anything. You need to have the IT people change settings..
 
Are you downloading over http? If so, I don't see how that would make a difference - port 80 is port 80. If you're downloading via ftp or similar, there may be throttling on certain ports.

If web connections are fast, try downloading via http rather than ftp whenever you're given the choice.
 
You will not be able to fix it because the IT people do limit certain P2P protocols and ports. If they didn't their network would come to a halt.
 
I've always wondered this, but i know nothing about it, so i couldn't even really begin to speculate why (i'm sure it's something simple)...but why don't p2p programs use port 80? Like the iTMS. I know ports < 1024 are 'privileged' but does that mean that they simply cannot be used by 3rd party apps (on any OS?)

I'm not sure that made sense... ;)
 
Usually you need to allow ports to be connected to from the internet to your computer, so you can't just run something on port 80.

There are also network appliances that can restrict by protocol by analyzing the packets.
 
privileged means you can't use them without administrator rights on the computer. And you don't want to be running P2P apps as root; really you don't.
 
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