Disabled P2P on campus internet - no way around?

I could be misreading your tone, but this seems like sort of an obnoxious thing to say in the GAMING section of a forum exclusively about COMPUTERS. I bet most of us here would not like to go without video games for months at a time. It seems like you are essentially saying "get a life;" if this is true maybe you should find a different community (the Amish, perhaps?).
At my school at least playing PC games is a big component of interaction with other people; most of my friends are PC gamers as well , so this IS our life. Of course I still do other things, but there is no reason why someone should have to completely give up video games and work 100% of the time. This does not work well in practice.

 

No, I am not going to restrict my education because of p2p, nor will I restrict my education because of laundry, or food. There are plenty of schools, all the way from budget to elite institutions, that offer these services. All I am saying, is that if you are going to choose to live on campus (not required at most institutions), you may want to look into whether or not they will be able to accommodate you by providing you with the services you want. If you are going to choose to live in a place for several years, your quality of life might be an important factor in that decision. Unrestricted access to internet is one of service that may make your life easier. Even if the service was not provided, you could make a variety of choices if you aware of this in advance:

You could choose to live off of campus. You could choose to accept additional cost and purchase internet access from a 3rd party (4g is reasonably fast, wireless, and expensive). You could choose to tolerate the lack of the service in advance. You could select a different university that provides the service. Any of those would be good options. None of those options would hamper your education. The only bad option is showing up uninformed and then feeling stuck.

As far as entitlement, I still believe you're wrong. It's not about whether or not you think a university should provide you with open internet. It's about whether you think that you and I should be able to MANDATE that they do so. I think any decent school should provide open internet access. I do NOT think that I should be able to force my opinion on the matter into the school's policy. I believe you are ENTITLED to free (as in freedom) speech, but you are not ENTITLED to free (as in freedom) internet. If a school had a policy of "no talking outside of education" - then I believe that I would have a right and responsibility to force my opinion of disagreement into that schools policy. I believe in freedom of speech.

Get the point?

---

As far as the OP, I definitely hope he finds a solution. I even provided some ideas and help towards that end. I just think we are getting geared towards thinking in terms of entitlement, where there is none.

 

Ok, so I followed some advice posted here. On my way to one of the city's malls I figured I should stop by at McDonald's and try out their internet. Without any problem, the client download started and ran ok. The internet wasn't speedy enough for me to sit around and play, so I just closed the lid and left. When I got back on campus and turned on the computer, the client continued to download the game (I was connected to "eduroam"), at which point I was pretty surprised.

I imagined the download would not continue once I got back on "eduroam". Therefore, the "play" button became available (once the client reached a certain download state). Unfortunately, I could not fire it up. There was no response.

So what's the deal?

 

// my thoughts

most likely eduroam blocks the p2p ports for the tracker

but you already downloaded the peer lists during the Mcdonalds trip. you could try connecting to those peers (and succeed somehow), but not connect to the tracker

 

it's not utorrent or torrents... it's a port blocking problem, we haven't quite figured it out, yet.

OP needs to go back to the administration and get more specific information about internet policies and which ports are blocked.

 

I've searched and asked around. Some eduroam networks are in fact limited by university wifi. It's very rare but it happens.
try this to check the blocked ports https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2