Use port 80 for torrents.

[Fr0sT]

Hi guys,

Having a minor issue. I recently moved to Berlin (for 6 months), and I'm using a hotspot for my internet. The thing is I can't access the router page (as it's public), to open ports or whatsoever. So the question is there any possibility to use port 80 for incoming connections (for utorrent for example). Or is there an other solution...

Thanks in advance.

Seba

 

[thiggins]

You don't need to open ports to download torrents. But the hotspot owner may have them blocked to avoid bandwidth hogs.

 

[Fr0sT]

I know, but I want to upload as well. I don't like to be a leecher only. Is there anyway to bypass this?

 

[stevech]

I know, but I want to upload as well. I don't like to be a leecher only. Is there anyway to bypass this?

Perhaps the ISP blocks traffic on these ports out of fairness to other customers.
It is a practical matter than bandwidth is shared in wide area networking, be it DSL, Cable, Satellite. It's just an issue of where traffic gets aggregated.
Most (not all, of course) of it is porn and stolen movies/music.
Perhaps FTP.

Oink.

 

[thiggins]

I know, but I want to upload as well. I don't like to be a leecher only. Is there anyway to bypass this?

uTorrent and I believe other Torrent clients know how to bypass firewalls and will upload as well as download without having to open router ports.

I occasionally run uTorrent behind two routers and it uploads just fine.

 

[stevech]

uTorrent and I believe other Torrent clients know how to bypass firewalls and will upload as well as download without having to open router ports.

How do they do this? Port 80 in most enterprises is open for outward-going TCP connections. Some enterprises capture all DNS lookups and filter all numeric IP addresses, to block access to social websites, all web mail, etc., etc.

 

[thiggins]

uTorrent, skype, etc. may not make it past firewalls that do deep packet inspection. But for consumer routers running NAT or even SPI+NAT, uTorrent, skype, etc. have no problem.
They just open an outgoing session and phone home to a server.

 

[stevech]

Right- home users.
My employer, like other Fortune 500, locks down ports, ICMP, jams DNS to WebSense, blocks gmail and all other web mail, blocks logmeIn and gotomypc, et al.

IT people get graded on running a tight ship, irrespective of the negative impact to employee productivity. All this due to a small number of cyber-punks.

 

[tipstir]

I know, but I want to upload as well. I don't like to be a leecher only. Is there anyway to bypass this?

I take this you're on wireless laptop right? Whoever is providing hosting for the street vendor won't allow what you want to be done, because if their patrons won't be able to surf the net then. It has to be balance.