Btsync Blocked At Work: It Friendly Work Arounds?

[eddieparker]

My IT department blocks BTSync, down to the getsync.com domain.  I'm assuming that it's because it uses the BT protocol, which I understand can be quite bandwidth intensive.

 

Trying to be a good corporate citizen, I'm thinking of ways to play nice with their policy, but still use BTSync as my 'home' option.  Is anyone currently doing this, or have any opinion on how to do it?

 

My thoughts are to double sync a drive - i.e., my server at home as a BTSync drive, that's also mapped to DropBox or something IT at work will let me run.  Then I just keep the two in sync that way.

 

 

[mexter]

My IT department blocks BTSync, down to the getsync.com domain.  I'm assuming that it's because it uses the BT protocol, which I understand can be quite bandwidth intensive.

 

Trying to be a good corporate citizen, I'm thinking of ways to play nice with their policy, but still use BTSync as my 'home' option.  Is anyone currently doing this, or have any opinion on how to do it?

 

My thoughts are to double sync a drive - i.e., my server at home as a BTSync drive, that's also mapped to DropBox or something IT at work will let me run.  Then I just keep the two in sync that way.

 

I would think that this would depend on how they are blocking it. Blocking the domain, for example, wouldn't stop you from running it. They could be blocking the standard port for btsync. It could also just be a local machine policy. Or a bunch of other things. 

 

What happens if you use predefined hosts and put your home IP address (or IP for another device) and not use the bittorrent tracker server?

 

And have you actually spoken to your IT department? If you have a legitimate work reason to use it, they might be able to make an exception or even review their policy.