ohdude Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Since this year my school blocked the protecol of Bitorrent sync I think. I am not able to upload, download or conntect to other devices.I stopped using dropbox for privacy reasons. But now my bitorrent does not work. How can I deblock it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmsullivan Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 My school was also blocking BTSync for awhile. I'm pretty sure they were blocking packets destined for the BTSync relay server. I simply sent an email to the IT department and requested that they remove the block. I explained that BTSync is used primarily to sync personal data across devices and not to pirate copyrighted content. I told my school that BTSync is a powerful tool for education and business. They stopped blocking it. Otherwise, maybe a VPN to your home network? I do site-to-site vpn across work and home and BTSync sees work computers as on the LAN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 @ohdudeIt actually depends on way how admins are blocking Sync traffic. If they are using some smart traffic analyzer - it would be hard to overcome it. Please take a look at this article - it describes which ports and protocols Sync is using, it might give you a hint on what exactly is being blocked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyTheSaint Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 My school was also blocking BTSync for awhile. I'm pretty sure they were blocking packets destined for the BTSync relay server. I simply sent an email to the IT department and requested that they remove the block. I explained that BTSync is used primarily to sync personal data across devices and not to pirate copyrighted content. I told my school that BTSync is a powerful tool for education and business. They stopped blocking it. I did the same thing. IT investigated and found BitTorrent Sync OK, so they unblocked it, but only for my location. I think it's more work or maybe difficult for them to allow bt protocol while still disallowing unwanted file sharing. Perhaps you also have to clear a port number with them so that they can separate the different kinds of uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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