[Zone-MR]

http-tunnel is painfully slow.

The first approach would be to probe around a little and figure out exaclty what is capped, if anything. What ports are given priority, what kinda apps tend to acheive the fastest speeds, etc.

Once you discover any ports you could use, your halfway there. If you are interested in hosting a service, its easy - just use that port. If you are interested in accessing external sites at full speed - even on restricted ports, you will need to have access to a server on a decent link somewhere. Ask a friend with a DSL connection, or whatever to run a SOCKS proxy on your favourite working port. Then just make all connections through the SOCKS proxy.

I had to do that at my school - ALL ports were blocked except 80 (http) which I had to access through a proxy, and 443 (SSL) which I could use directly. I ended up running a socks server externally, and then I could use remote desktop, ssh, IRC, whatever I wanted by going through the socks proxy.