Is it just me, or ...

Chreteau · Post by **Chreteau** » October 25, 2004, 1:27 pm

... do Kazaa Lite and WinMX work really, really slowly when connected to the university network?

stever · Post by **stever** » October 25, 2004, 5:51 pm

maybe it's because they are shaping packets

Chreteau · Post by **Chreteau** » October 25, 2004, 5:57 pm

stever wrote:maybe it's because they are shaping packets

Can you explain that in English?

solid_dave · Post by **solid_dave** » October 25, 2004, 11:46 pm

it means that depending on what port yer P2P client uses, the university might shape the amount of D/L bandwidth you can use on that port.... it's that way on almost every port, so uh, ya might be screwed... there's a few things you can do, use Earthstation 5... it has HTTP proxies built in...

cut and dry version

you won't be able to get any decent bandwidth P2P... but you can downloading from the web browser...

Chreteau · Post by **Chreteau** » October 26, 2004, 12:29 am

Thanks! That actually made sense.

the_red_chimp · Post by **the_red_chimp** » October 26, 2004, 9:09 am

Or you could just change the port your p2p client uses.

Chreteau · Post by **Chreteau** » October 26, 2004, 5:36 pm

the_red_chimp wrote:Or you could just change the port your p2p client uses.

I knew you were useful for something. Turned it to port 80, and damn is it moving now.