I know they throttle bittorrent uploads, but do they throttle other ports as well?

I seem to remember being able to upload something very fast from a friends computer in the dorms, but this was a few years ago, and it also might have been a dream.

12/30/2005 2:39:16 AM

Bittorent has no limit to the ports it can use.

12/30/2005 3:07:57 AM

I realize that. I'm just wondering if they are actually throttling the typical bittorrent ports, or if they just throttle all uploads in general. I have to send a large file to someone, and I want to now if it would be worth it going on campus, and having them FTP/HTTP/whatever else it from me, instead of suffering through the 40KB/s upload of cable modem.

12/30/2005 3:14:37 AM

as far as I know, only the resnet is throttled. I never had issues uploading anything to my website from other campus machines

12/30/2005 3:19:54 AM

they dont throttle by port, they have QoS in place. Bittorrent and P2P is throttled regardless.

ftp/http outgoing is throttled on resnet, but I don't think it is in labs.

12/30/2005 9:51:46 AM

i thought that the way they implemented QoS it effectively merely throttled most ports - minus 81/3389 and a few others

[Edited on December 30, 2005 at 9:54 AM. Reason : granted it's been a while]

12/30/2005 9:54:06 AM

last I heard they finally got a real QoS policy put in place, but I could definitely be wrong.

12/30/2005 10:09:01 AM

mine knowledge is as of nov 2003 - haven't had a box plugged in since then - but you used to be able to have unthrottled speeds on those ports in bragaw/sullivan on the 100mbit lines

12/30/2005 10:11:10 AM

^


couldn't you also effectively traffic bounce to a box on the LAN that isn't capped, and push all data out to the world from that?

[Edited on December 30, 2005 at 3:27 PM. Reason : .]

12/30/2005 3:26:14 PM

uhh yes

12/30/2005 7:59:20 PM

this takes me back

1/1/2006 5:44:47 PM