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Old 2005-02-21, 09:45 AM
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Re: torrent + school firewall

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Originally Posted by RainDawg
Depending on how the firewall and your school's permissions are setup, it may or may not be possible to circumvent the firewall. If they place a cap on upstream limit, you're screwed. However, if all the do is block access to normal ports there is a way with some clients to force it to use another. Use port 20 or 21 (usually reserved for FTP) and see if either of those let you become unfirewalled.
Stephen,
If you could possibly expand on this a little bit, I would be appreciative. So, basically I should just try to set my listening port on Azerus to 20 or 21 and see if that works? What should it be set at normally? Thanks.

-Phil
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