Enabling Bittorrent at the University Level?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 17, 2006 @06:40AM from the bandwidth-and-administrator-headaches dept.

Sorthum asks: "I'm a network administrator for a small university (approximately 5000 students all told). We're running NAT in the dorms, which obviously restricts BitTorrent traffic. We do an annual student survey, on which 'Residential Network' is listed as the number 2 complaint. This translates more or less into 'Bittorrent is slow here.' My boss is in a frenzy to appease the users at virtually any cost, but it seems to me from my research that the only real way to improve Bittorrent speeds is to start assigning public IPs to the dorms. Add to that the potential liability of making a service that by most reports has upward of 90% of its traffic fall into a 'legally questionable' gray area, how can I win in this situation?"

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dialup over a digital PBX phone! by r00t · 2006-09-17 07:20 · Score: 3, Interesting

I got a little box that would go between the phone body and the handset. This little box provided an analog phone jack. It had a way to adjust for 4 different power levels, to be set according to your digital phone. I think it needed a wall wart for power.

Procedure:

1. take handset off hook
2. tell modem to dial (any number will do)
3. dial the real number using buttons on the phone
4. enjoy the 9.6 kb/s connection