FTP through bandwidth shaper

[Cyberion]

I've tried test sites here and there with a few friends off campus and the speeds are horrific. My college tunnels ANYTHING that is off of port 21 and blocks incoming port 21 transmission, thus making ftp(21) totally internal.

I thinking of tring a Linux varient to form a test site, cause I tried it once, and it FLEW @ 260KB/s ++

Can anyone shed light on what I can do to accomplish my goal. Note, I do not want to disturb the bandwidth of my place of education, I simply want to see if this is possible.

Thank you all in advance, cybey

[Stringent]

Use a different port other than 21 in setting up your FTP.

[Cyberion]

I've tried that. I usually ran my site on port 27960.. good ol' Quake 3 Arena port

But my upload speeds are around 0.40KB/s. I was thinking that at a school, the saturation should be incoming NOT outgoing. Hmmm...

[BearCat]

Try tunneling YOUR traffic
http://www.http-tunnel.com/HT_Produc...nnelClient.asp

Information:
If you're behind a restrictive firewall, you can use this to take advantage of previously blocked applications. This runs in your system tray acting as a SOCKS server that sends the data to the real destination and vice versa. This forwarding mechanism lets you use any Internet application from behind a firewall.

Now you can use your favorite applications through the firewall, including Morpheus, ICQ, MSN, FTP clients, PC Anywhere, Imesh, and so forth. It's simple to install and use and provides secure, high-speed servers containing the latest anti-virus protection.

This is updated regularly and 24-hour tech support is available through e-mail and chat

[Cyberion]

I'll try running ftp services through a tunneler.. But their is NO http proxy on campus, only a bandwidth shaper.

I thought those were different. Are they not different???

[BearCat]

The HTTP proxy used in the tunnel, is NOT at campus,
but for the campus-shaper it will look like your using a HTTP connection,
giving you the "top-speed"

[billybob3]

WOWOW, I better take some notes here for when I go to college...otherwise, i'll be without internet!! AHHHH.

Thanks for the info!

[Cyberion]

ok... I'll try that when using the ftp client, ie. LeechFTP.

[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.

[Cyberion]

But.. why would ftp on Linux be different? It shouldn't be..

Are the stacks (TCP/IP) different?

I have so much to learn..