How can i torrent at school when only http is alowed through port 8080(i think) that means to IP connect?

Question

I was talking to someone today about making p2p sharing look like http and he said that he couldn't figure it out
is their any way to tunnel (i dont even know what to call it [p2p connect?]) IP connections used for bit torrenting and make the computer think it is http instead of an IP connection?

I dont even know that this question makes sense but i have 3 more years at school to figure it out if no one knows how to do this.

Answer 1

Yea dont risk it, my junior year in High School I was almost expelled because I was taking most of the bandwidth because I was downloading stuff through torrents and p2p programs. The State Dept who monitors the schools networks came down, the Dept of Education came down and the police came as well. We sat in the library and had a long talk.



Luckily they noticed I was into programming and saw most of the stuff I was downloading was programming books and software to use. So nothing bad happend jsut couldnt use the computer for the rest of the year.

Answer 2

understanding your not here for moral guidance....



you shouldnt have to buy try changing the operating port to 8080 and/or encrypting the transfer, which i know utorrent can do but thats all i use. it shouldnt block everything it doesnt know, only what it does know to be bad ( i think). also you could try redirecting it through a local proxy, like the one included in tor. aside from that ... all i can think of would be building a client on the far side on the school network and repackaging the data so it looks like a regular file download, but if you could do that.... im sure you wouldnt be doing it at school...

maybe also... theres the java based torrent client, it was featured in the last torrentfreak podcast i think. im not sure if that runs any differently but it does run "in" your browser

Answer 3

i would highly not to try and do this unless you want persnol computer bad from your school i know i have had it almost done to me when i was in high school. plus you can get in deep trouble with the school bored if they caching you doing that. most of of the admins at that school will be looking for that kind of thing and will cache you in the long run if down to where you are on the school if wired in to the school campus

Answer 4

Any port under 49 000 (or so) will be blocked for p2p by your school's ISP.