school firewall and socks2http

[IXSigmaXI]

I use socks2http to bypass my school's firewall but its much slower than its supposed to be. I get a maximum of 30-40 kbps and I know that it shoul dbe capable of over 100.

socks2http is a program that sits on my computer that lets other programs (ie. KazaA, AIM, IE) or anything that the school blocks connect to it and tunnel their requests through a remote server.

for instance with kazaa I go to socks5 proxy settings and I put in host: 127.0.0.1 Port: 1080

this makes kazaa connect to the program on my computer

the program takes the information and sends it to a remote server that I have to pay to access through port 80

the average ping on this server is <35 so I don't know why I can only get 30-40kbps

If anyone is familiar with socks2http please gimme some info, I appreciate it!

 

[Swilo]

Ping has nothing to do with download speed.
My guess is there's some setting in the program you need to alter, or the people you connect to want more money for a faster connection.

 

[Grimlock]

if you have the always use gateway function on, it will slwo down the transfers.

 

[IXSigmaXI]

in the email they sent me after I paid, they said I had to use my e-mail address as the login but if I put complete crap in the user name window I connect the same way. I don't know whats going on

 

[The Helper]

You still having a problem with this? Any update?

 

[IXSigmaXI]

Still no progress wit hHttp2Proxy, I guess the port is just slowed down from the school's firewall since when I went home for the weekend, it sped up alot. Its not really a problem anymore because since the release of kazaa2.0, you can set the connecting port to 80, bypassing any possible security.

Once again, Supa is a happy camper. I downloaded about 15 movies in 3 days

thanks for you help!