Tom
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Re: Limited Bandwidth/no blocking or Unlimited Bandwidth/blockin
Another option for UIUC (one of four I use to do roughly 5 or 6 GB a day without messing with MAC addresses): if you have a laptop, go to one of the wireless access points on campus (they're everywhere) and connect via the campus VPN. None of them are subject to the 750MB/day limit (and some VPN addresses download 1 or 2 GB an hour, so they're less likely to notice spikes), and traffic is encrypted across most of the campus network (I'm not sure if the VPN sits past the traffic shaping hardware or not).
Also, the only way they catch you torrenting is sniffing traffic for .torrent files downloaded via HTTP. If you can get them another way, you're good to go.
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z9_87
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| If what you say is true with the sniffing for torrent files, I can think of tons of legal torrents and plenty of reasons to be using bittorent other than for illegal means. In fact if a site has a torrent and a http download most of the time the torrent will be faster.
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Tom
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| said by z9_87  :If what you say is true with the sniffing for torrent files, I can think of tons of legal torrents and plenty of reasons to be using bittorent other than for illegal means. In fact if a site has a torrent and a http download most of the time the torrent will be faster. I should correct myself: they scan the downloaded torrent files against a list provided by the MPAA and the RIAA to make sure they're illegal. Legal torrents are fine.
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