Can't connect through LAN at Uni
 

Im connecting through a LAN at 10 Mbps and can access the web and download files fine.

However, i can not connect through any peer to peer file sharing software. I know it has been blocked on our network somehow to stop people taking up loads of bandwidth.

Surely there must be a way around this though????!!!

Currently i get a 1-2 sec connection to limewire only.

Please help!!

Many universities don't allow connections to Gnutella, I'm studying in Aachen and the only way I was ever able to connect to Gnutella via university LAN was by using an HTTP proxy.

I submitted a HTTP proxy patch to LimeWire a while ago, but they never accepted it.

What you should do you is contact a technician at the university and see if he or she can open up a port for you. I hope this helps.

Those ports are usually closed on purpose.

Unfortunately these ports are closed on purpose, as mentioned, to stop using large chunks of bandwidth.

Did this patch make any difference? If it did where can i get it?

The patch masked Gnutella traffic by tunneling it through a HTTP proxy. It worked quite well, but I don't have it anymore.

I still have the patch integrated in the source tree I use to generate the jum builds. If you need a current version, I can sent you the differences.

I already found it again, thanks to Stief, and submitted the patch to LimeWire (again). Sumeet said he would take a look at it...

I was wondering. Could this connection issue also be because most gnutella servents listen on the default gnutella port of 6346 and they simply blocked outgoing connections to that port and a few more ports after that such as the range of 6346 to 6352? I did a quick test to see if I could even connect to gnutella after blocking outgoing ports 6346 to 6352 connections with my home broadband router and after 15 to 20 minutes, no gnutella connections were able to be made with LimeWire 3.8.6. The second I removed that block of the outgoing ports 6346 through 6352, LimeWire was able to make connections to 5 gnutella ultrapeers. So it seems like a simple thing of randomizing the port it listens on when it is first installed for everyone could solve the outgoing connection problem for people who aren't able to connect out on those ports due to ISP/college blocking of that port range.

A Guide To Selecting Alternative PORTS
 

For more information, click on the

Alternate PORTS link in my sig below.