Getting around Bittorrent Port Blockin

[jimsowden]

I'm on a very small college campus where they graciously block every port except for web and a few other app ports (iChat video doesn't work, SMTP ports are blocked, and of course bit torrent doesn't work). I can usually get connected to the tracker, but no peers ever connect. Now for those who may chastise me for using bit torrent, I'm downloading a video my friend made in the US, so there is no legal aspect to this.

Any idea around this scourge of port blocking!?

 

[belvdr]

If no inbound ports are forwarded to your machine, I think you're out of luck.

 

[jbrenn]

one more reason not to live on campus.

 

[Cromulent]

Make bittorrent use port 80 (the standard web port)?

 

[ebel3003]

If you're willing to spend a little money, you could get some web hosting and give this a shot: http://torrentfreak.com/w3btorrent-a-bittorrent-client-for-your-web-server/

You could then download the files from the web server.