Torrenting on a College Campus

Found this bad boy and thought I would share with other college/university students that can't give up their torrenting habits for an entire school year :pcguru:


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This is an open directory of (worldwide) campus attitudes toward filesharing, for the protection of students using their networks to access Private Trackers. These are user-edited and so their information can become outdated very quickly. Always use common sense and basic restraint when consuming a school's network resources.

Country
Region
College Name
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes / No / Changes needed (describe in Notes)
-Can you leech?: Yes / No / Changes needed (describe in Notes)
-Can you seed?: Yes / No / Changes needed (describe in Notes)
-Ports blocked: None / All / Ranges
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes (describe in Notes) / No
-Encryption required to connect?: No / Yes
-Does the school care?: No / Yes / Somewhat (describe in Notes)
-AUP: http://university.edu/link/to/aup/
-Recommendation: Recommended action for AHD use.
-Notes: All other information goes here.

Australia
Queensland
Griffith University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: N/A
-Recommendation: Limit set to you by the university - if you exceed this you will have to pay for it.

University of Queensland
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Not from AHD (see notes)
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: Unsure
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Unsure
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: Unsure
-AUP: https://ppl.app.uq.edu.au/content/6....-ict-resources
-Notes: All students get a quota of 5GB a month, which isn't much, but youtube being unmetered helps a lot in this regard. Torrents on AHD won't work (as far as I have tried) but torrents with SSL trackers can be leeched, so torrents can be downloaded from sites like BTN if the tracker used is the SSL tracker.

Victoria
University of Melbourne
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: No
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: Everything but 80
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/infostrate...uidelines.html
-Recommendation: Attend a different University. Overseas preferably.
-Notes: Absolutely no way to connect that I've seen. Everything but port 80 seems to be blocked. 1GB/week cap monitored through the username used to log into the proxy.

New South Wales
Charles Sturt University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None that I've found so far
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No?
-AUP: http://www.csu.edu.au/adminman/tec/p...facilities.pdf
-Recommendation: Be discrete? There's free off-peak straffic between 5pm and 8am, so stick to that time period.
-Notes: I've been torrenting here on campus for 6 months, and not a word has been said. They know I do it (you can see a break down of your traffic use, most of mine is bittorrent), but they don't really care?

Canada
British Columbia
University of British Columbia
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/about/policies/aup.shtml
-Recommendation: None
-Notes: The school has an 8 GB per 24 hours quota in the winter. This system is trivial to exploit, either through changing your MAC address or connecting through the VPN. Their AUP includes copyright violations but most don't have problems with it.

Ontario
University of Waterloo
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes, but incoming ports are blocked, which severely limits this.
-Ports blocked: All incoming, no outgoing
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.housing.uwaterloo.ca/resn...et/misuse.html
-Recommendation: Seed at your own risk, but you won't get much upload due to blocked connections. Consider using DC++ (uwdc.ca), getting a seedbox or seeding from your parents' house.
-Notes: Use a wired connection on reznet if possible. Unless you regularly go well over the 2GB/day 'cap' or you use public trackers, chances are they won't care. If the university gets a letter from the RIAA/MPAA/etc. regarding activity from your IP, your connection WILL get suspended. Also, the 2GB/day cap is very rarely enforced, but I wouldn't download more than 10GB/day.

Queen's University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes, but incoming ports are blocked, which severely limits this.
-Ports blocked: All incoming, no outgoing
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Only if you get a copyright notice
-AUP: http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/se...ies/codes.html
-Recommendation: Seeding works fine, but you're unconnectable. Consider using DC++ instead (hub.queensdc.ca).
-Notes: There is no daily cap or limit on transfers. Speeds are rather poor, averaging maybe 10Mbps to external machines. Transfers will go faster on the Secure WPA2 wireless or via an ethernet port at various places around campus. Internal speeds hit 100Mbit when plugged in via ethernet and using DC++. The IT department doesn't care about anything so long as you don't get any copyright notices.

Quebec
McGill University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://www.mcgill.ca/secretariat/pol...logy/#CONDUCT/
-Recommendation: None
-Notes: Unbelievably fast internet on campus & in dorms. Regularly got 6-7 MB/s (bytes, not bits) download and 5 MB/s upload, with peaks around 11 MB/s down and 7 MB/s up from wireline service in the dorms, with slightly slower figures for wireless on campus and in the dorms. I downloaded well over 500 GB in one month at my dorms with absolutely no issue, and had zero issues for the nine months I lived in the dorms and all of my friends that torrented had no issues whatsoever. Sometimes speeds are slower during the day / early evening (max 3-4 MB/s down and up), but otherwise you constantly have some of the fastest and most reliable internet there is.

Nova Scotia
Dalhousie University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Unknown
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not really
-AUP: http://www.ancillaries.dal.ca/default.asp?mn=1.10.374
-Recommendation: None, use away
-Notes: There's always a DC++ network that gets started up on the campus "ResNet", it's great to use, 10MB/s speeds. I used it a lot for movies, didn't really trust the music quality on there. Ask around to find out the address of the network. Often you have to share at least a few gigs to be able to connect. As for the torrenting, I torrented a good amount of music/programs with out any issues. Couldn't really upload a whole lot, just a bit here and there. I heard through the DC++ chat from one of the guys that had 1.5TB shared that he got a warning for torrenting, but that was about it.
Edit: My roommate had downloaded The Other Guys from TPB, he went on campus and was on the internet there and the torrent was seeding. He later got an email from our school saying Columbia Pictures sent them a letter and it traced back to him. He apologized and they just said not to do it again or there will be a punishment. Moral of the story: Don't download movies from public trackers on Dalhousie internet.

China
Sichuan
Chengdu Meishi Internatonal School
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Barely - Unless no one else is using the internet, such as during exams, the download speed would be no more than ~5 kbps
-Can you seed?: Barely - Again, very very slowly
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No - They don't care about torrenting, but they don't like it when someone uses too much bandwith.
-Recommendation: Don't use What or any torrent site here, unless you're looking to be stressed, or if you really want something. They won't say anything, but it just won't be efficient for you.

Germany
Berlin
Free University of Berlin
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes - over both LAN and WLAN
-Can you seed?: Yes - over both LAN and WLAN
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes - No systematic sniffing of P2P traffic. Bandwidth IS monitored for unusual volumes. Yearly nominative census of MAC addresses for all your devices (be it your smartphone, own notebook or office computer).
-AUP: http://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/Benutzungsordnung and linked pages
-Recommendation: Stay out of public trackers! Safe, private ones like What are OK. Watch out for your bandwidth! Never saturate the (w)lan. Keep monthly use below 100GB/month and you're good.
-Notes: The 'Zedat' happily forwards DMCA complaints, discloses your ID to the cops & co., sends notice to the Univ President and to your IT department, then keeps your account under scrutiny ever after. Last strike if proven guilty or reoffending: (W)LAN access terminated + face further legal consequences...

United Kingdom
University of Warwick
-Can you download .torrent files?: Unknown
-Can you leech?: Unknown
-Can you seed?: Unknown
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Unknown
-Encryption required to connect?: Unknown
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/i...net/rules/aup/
-Recommendation: On-campus DC++ hub or Seedbox
-Notes: There are strict policies against P2P. They actively detect BitTorrent traffic and will disconnect a student if they discover it. They are usually pretty effective at finding this out. They also have a fair use policy of 5GB traffic per month, although this is not known to be currently actively enforced.

Queen Mary, University of London
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: No - Note that this is subject to change. Previously torrenting was not possible, but they opened it up recently.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes - fair use. But no reports of anyone being warned due to it.
-AUP: http://www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/policy_zone/index.html
-Recommendation: Torrenting is fine, probably don't want to overdo it. Seedbox is helpful and will give you faster speeds

University of Manchester
-Can you download .torrent files?: It's variable. From some trackers they download fine, others give a 404.
-Can you leech?: Ish. I know some people who claimed they could leech if they set the upload speed to 1KB/s, limited the number of connections and hit + run. I would not risk it.
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: No
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: See leech.
-Does the school care?: Yes. Automatic detection systems in place. Violation of their policies will trip it (they are quite sensitive) and the port you are connected to on the switch is disabled. Disconnected for a certain number of days depending on the violation and you have to pay a reconnection fee.
-AUP: http://hornet.manchester.ac.uk/help-...-network-abuse - all forms of P2P are forbidden.
-Recommendation: Don't risk torrenting on their network. In theory UDP connections shouldn't trip their systems, but I wouldn't risk it. Get a seedbox or use a VPN. If you have a seedbox you'll probably have to use SSH tunnelling to download .torrent files.
-Notes: 10Mbit download speed, 2Mbit upload speed in halls. Amount of data you're allowed to transfer per month is truly not limited. If you're a Computer Science student my flatmate discovered a way for you to bypass their detection systems and get around the speed limits (you're completely bypassing everything so you get the full port speed - 100Mbit download and upload). We made full use of this and it's completely undetectable. Only for CS students.[/b]

University of Southampton
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: No (Changes needed) - At least, I have never had a problem with ports.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No - but speeds are very poor without it
-Does the school care?: Yes - In theory. P2P is explicitly against the T&C, and I have received an email sent en masse saying that P2P is against the rules and illegal, you can be caught, fined, etc. I have not heard of anyone being caught for torrenting, and have heard that the email was sent out just to please one of the administrators. The two cases I know of of people losing their connections were both due to downloading excessively large amounts in a very short period of time. One of those was downloading games via Steam.
-AUP: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isoluti...halls/cou.html
-Recommendation: You can torrent, but I'd personally play it safe and use a seedbox. I still keep uTorrent open every now and then to seed, but I never leech on the network. Amount of traffic is more an issue than type of traffic.
-Notes: This is all based on my experience in Gateley Hall. Romero should be much the same (being on the same road) but I can't make any accurate statements for the other halls. In Gateley, the speed fluctuates somewhat but DL speeds of ~75Mbps and UL speeds of ~40Mbps aren't uncommon. I'd estimate it's a shared 100/50 connection. Some public sites won't resolve (TPB for example). Friends living at Orion's point have told me they have faster home connections, so make of that what you will.
Another user has found all incoming ports no outgoing blocked at Glen Eyre.

Teesside University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None*
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No*
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://url.tees.ac.uk/it-policy/ICT%...e%20Policy.htm
-Recommendation: Forced encryption and a port between 45000 and 55000 yields best speeds.
-Notes: When signing on to the halls network you must accept a AUP for both the university and JaNET. Fortunately this agreement carries no backing and is nullified due to the policies you are accepting not actually being on the server and resulting in a 404 page. Speeds are mediocre at best, usually between 1.1 and 1.7mbps in KES and slightly slower in other halls, the worst being Parkside only yielding an average of 650kbps.

Imperial College of London
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Not really - see ports
-Ports blocked: Yes Ports are blocked, there isn't really any way to get them opened up for you.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes - P2P is illegal and the university cares big time, they have banned several people for P2P or going over the quota. They've also said that some people were expelled from the university for piracy.
-AUP: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ict/servi...sandconditions
-Recommendation: You can leech off private trackers no problem, but that will kill your ratio really fast, better to use a seedbox
-Notes: Download speeds are pretty good, I clocked a 200mbit down, 100mbit up speedtest, but you can't really use it. They enforce a 5GB per 24hour rolling period transfer policy. You have three strikes, first time you go over the quota they will warn you, second time you get banned for 48 hours, third time - they ban you until the end of the academic year.

University of Bristol
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Generally - ports being blocked means that you cannot port forward which results in occasional 'Red status' in uTorrent, but mostly seeding is fine.
-Ports blocked: Yes Ports are blocked, there isn't really any way to get them opened up for you.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes, sort of - Theoretically they can open ports up for you, you have to come up with a good excuse though. They refused to open ports up for me. Vivi: When I was there last year, (up till June 2011) one of ports 2222 and/or 8080 were open and you could port forward through them.
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not really - The official stance is that you cannot use your connection for anything illegal. Anyone who is caught however can get reconnected without too much hassle (small fine and sign to say you agree not to do it again). On private torrent sites getting caught is much less of an issue.
-AUP: http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/computing/a...fairusage.html
-Recommendation: A seedbox might be useful if staying connectible seems to be a problem. But when uploading speeds are good so maintaining ratio (especially on freeleech torrents) is easy.
-Notes: Speeds are pretty good - 50/50mb upload/download. Base package is 48GB of traffic per week, higher package is 81GB. You can buy more traffic allowance too if you need it at any time.

United States
Arkansas
UCA
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: They say they do. They refuse to turn names over to RIAA. They claim they can't tell which student is which
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: None
-Notes: Super fast download speeds.

California
CA/CSU Chico
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Random ones like 9001 worked.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Encryption
-Notes: First punishment is a slap on the wrist and a $25 fine. Encryption gives better speeds.

CSU Northridge
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: No
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: Will update, but many are blocked
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat (Haven't been able to torrent, but I assume they care)
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Tunnel, use different ports
-Notes: I'll update the ports blocked

CSU Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes, at about 30kb/s per torrent.
-Can you seed?: Unsure
-Ports blocked: All of them...
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes, if you have a torrent client installed the network software warns you every time you connect.
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Seedbox, or at least only use private trackers, and not often, as network traffic is monitored. I tend to just download music every so often, torrent traffic encrypted, private trackers only. I also get seedboxes from time to time.

UCLA
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.bol.ucla.edu/policies/aupdetail.html
-Recommendation: Use private trackers to avoid getting copyright holder C&Ds, takedown notices, or subpoenas. Also, wireless internet is pretty terrible; wired is recommended (though not required for all torrenting). Lastly, the wireless network UCLA_WEB or UCLA_WEB_RES will not work for torrenting (only ports 21 and 80 are allowed).
-Notes: UCLA will not actively seek out or throttle any sort of P2P traffic, including all torrent-related traffic. However, if they receive any sort of notification from a copyright holder--whether it be a cease and desist notice, a subpoena, or some sort of DMCA takedown notice--they will temporarily revoke your internet privileges pending participation in a P2P education workshop. Any further offenses will have much harsher penalties. For this reason, it's highly recommended that only private trackers be used, as these sorts of notices are much more common on more public trackers like Demonoid and TPB.


University of Southern California
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None that I know of.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes, here is their official stance on it. They limit ResNet computers (Personal Computers) to 3.5GB per two hours and/or 10GB per 24 hours, but they don't do anything to actively block P2P sites.
-AUP: http://ais-sap.usc.edu/AcceptableUsePolicy.html
-Recommendation: Use private trackers. To get around the daily bandwidth limitation, go to the libraries and use a program like SMAC to spoof your MAC address with a library computer (command prompt > "ipconfig /all" to find this) and plug in your laptop with cat5/6. This will give you faster speeds and no bandwidth limitations. Smaller libraries will usually give you faster speeds if they're on a different subnet. In Marshall's library I was getting about 100/100, while in Leavey I was getting about 50/50

Colorado
University of Colorado (CU)
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Very Limited
-Ports blocked: They are all blocked
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Build up a buffer!
-Notes: I can download just fine and at blazing fast speeds, but seeding is very sporadic and limited (i.e. no more than 50 mb in a 24 hour period). While, at orientation, the school tells you that you are prohibited from downloading, friends in ITS (Information Technology Services), whom are the ones who monitor the network, tell me that no one on campus actually cares if you download. Still can't figure out the seeding, though, as it is very sporadic. In some residence halls, torrenting does seem to be blocked, but in others, it works just fine.

Colorado State University (CSU)
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Most of them are
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Private tracker, use wired internet when possible
-Notes: My roommates and I while living in the dorms built up enormous buffers by downloading and seeding well into the TBs of data using the wired internet. Never had an issue or report come across our way. WiFi downloading on campus works well, but not as fast usually maxes out around 6 MB/s. My recommendation would be to take your laptop to a computer lab, unplug the ethernet cable and have your way downloading from your seedbox with blazing fast speeds.
-Additional Notes: The school states it does not allow P2P software including bittorrent, but does not actively enforce. However if the school receives a letter about it, they will make you bring your computer in, and they will remove any P2P software they find, and will run a virus scan on your comp, then charge you $40 for the first time. One friend had to do this, but he was downloading from TPB

Connecticut
University of Hartford
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: Unknown
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Seedbox
-Notes: Torrents are slow; bandwidth unlimited. They only care if a student really slows down everyone's connection or if the RIAA contacts them about an infringement. If a group like that does they feel obligated to give them any information they can to help.

Yale University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Out of ports 1–20000, the following timed out (i.e. SYN packet silently dropped):
25, 110, 135, 160–161, 445, 515, 1434, 5162, 5213, 19356, 19446
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Unknown
-AUP: http://www.yale.edu/ppdev/policy/1607/1607.pdf
-Recommendation: Recommended for AHD use.
-Notes: Tested using the wired ethernet LAN connection. When you use the wired connection you are assigned an external IP that is connectable.

District of Columbia
The George Washington University (GWU)
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Not connectable on the standard wireless, but SOME of the school networks are. Haven't tried forwarding ports.
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: They will warn you if you are in the top percentiles of downloaders each month as I learned the hard way. The RIAA once tried to get names, but the school didn't hand them over, although the students may have faced school sanctions.
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: There are two main methods of getting on the internet: ResNet (wired) and gwireless (VPN/wireless). There is a third network called gw_event that is unmonitored and untraceable. Find a student that knows the login info, and you're golden.
-Notes: Fiber Optics in most dorms, and wireless access almost everywhere combines for great a BT environment.
The school receives letters all the time. I've used my ResNet to torrent from What quite frequently and have never been caught. Others that have used public trackers have received emails from the university. The last time the university sold out its students was in 2007.

Florida
University of Central Florida
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?:No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://www.policies.ucf.edu/document...urcesFINAL.pdf
-Recommendation: Bit torrent works very good with speeds of up to 100mbit up and down. However, torrent at your own risk.
-Notes: They have monitoring systems that are not always active. However, they will randomly check to see if people are downloading anything via p2p services. If you get caught once, it's a warning. The second time you will have your internet access disconnected for one year.

University of Florida
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Misc, non-bittorent
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Seedbox
-Notes: 3 strike policy against all servers and P2P traffic. Very powerful in-house network monitoring system. It is possible to torrent, but they will find out, and those who torrent will be banned. First ban is 30 minutes, then 5 days, then permanent. They detect usage patterns, as well as protocol, to identify traffic.
As of fall 2010, non-linux system are required to download safeconnect, a spyware tool that reports back all installed software. It is currently unknown if internet is blocked when safeconnect is installed. Linux systems are unaffected.

University of South Florida
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes (there is a wireless network that does not require encryption, though)
-Does the school care?: Somewhat (there is a strike policy but it is lenient when you're on a Macintosh)
-AUP: https://mhb-dhcp.net.usf.edu/laptops/aup.html
-Recommendation: This has been tested - when you torrent on a Windows computer you are prompted with a screen that forces you to accept an agreement to not use Bit torrent as a means to illegally download files about every 2 weeks. On an Apple computer you are never prompted with this agreement. Either way, you are able to get away with p2p as long as you agree to not use Bit torrent illegally. The speeds are very good (2 mb/s download 2 mb/s upload) and very consistent.

University of Miami
-Can you download .torrent files?: Downloading via SSL or as text works fine, direct attempts yield connection resets [/b]
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Certain ranges - all common ports are left open (HTTP, FTP, VPN, etc)
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Connectable yes, forwarding no.
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Ma...1-3,00.html#C.
-Recommendation: Seedbox and VPN.
-Notes: All network users are required to register MAC addresses of their hardware to their student ID upon arriving on campus - there are no formal bandwidth limits, however, so you can move as much data back and forth to a seedbox via sFTP as you wish. They seem to monitor the number of inbound/outbound connections to determine usage that looks like BitTorrent. There is a three strike system, and on each strike you will be required to bring your computer to the Telecommunications department for them to either verify that you do not have any software that could be causing issues or for them to watch you remove the software. Overall, my experience is that the telecommunications staff are very competent and the school's network is exceedingly well controlled.

Florida International University
-Can you download .torrent files?: No - Downloading via SSL works, but not by plain http. You'll recieve a zero byte file.
-Can you leech?: Extremely limited
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes - Data transfer will be extremely limited, but you are connectable...
-Encryption required to connect?: No. Cisco Clean Access login is required to connect on housing Ethernet ports or wireless network. (There are a few random places, notably in faculty offices, where rogue routers will get you past this.) AIRS registration by MAC address is needed for use of Ethernet ports in offices and some classrooms.
-Does the school care?: Somewhat. The university does not snitch out Bittorrent users themselves, but does severely throttle BT traffic. They will respond to outside complaints from the ESA, MPAA, etc. Complaints are handled by issuing a warning letter to the student that must be signed and returned within (30?) days to keep network access.
-AUP: http://airs.fiu.edu/index.php?action=policies
-Recommendation: Seedbox. Download/upload are extremely slow to most trackers. Some exceptions have been made, for instance, you can easily download and seed Ubuntu Linux images to Ubuntu's tracker. SSH and FTP are not restricted at all, so you'll be able to upload and download to a seedbox rapidly.

Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes, if you disable inbound security when you set it up
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Cap Upload, Stick to private sites
-Notes: Previously had a 3 strike system: 1 warning, 1 meeting, then you're out. As of the Fall 2009 semester, the rules have become more strict. How strict is not known--ask your local Computer Science major. Companies pay the school to look for students stealing their software (such as MatLab) You are safe as long as you stick to private trackers. Cap your upload. 25kB/s up is paranoid, 50kB/s is safe, 75kB/s is riskier, 100kB/s is the max you should upload.

University of Georgia
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: No
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: Unknown
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP:https://infosec.uga.edu/policies/aup...ts/UGA_AUP.pdf
-Recommendation: Stick to private sites and you should be fine
-Notes: I'm not sure how/if the policy has changed since torrenting was blocked, but it used to only be an issue if there was a complaint from the RIAA/MPAA and private trackers were safe. They throttle Bittorent, but a seedbox or VPN should get around it.

Idaho
University of Idaho
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://www.uidaho.edu/resnet/connect...lege-agreement
-Recommendation: The University is very strict when it comes to public trackers. I just forced encryption and tried to stay away from public trackers. They only care about uploading, but if you force encrypt and use private trackers they tend to not care.
-Notes: I was brought in after I started force encrypting because I was using a public tracker and was uploading over 75GB a day for 5 days straight. They only crack down when they get letters, calls, etc.. The biggest problem is the first week or so of the year because of all the people who think they know what they are doing because they watched the one kid in their hall so they think they can do it too. If you just wait a week and use private trackers to upload you are GOLDEN like the Adonis himself.

Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Default: ALL / MC Firewall: ALL except 20, 21, 22, 25, 80, 109, 110, 115, 143, 389, 443, 522, 993, 995, 1503, 1720, 1731, 4000, 6112, 6891, 9084, 10070-10080, 15328-15348
-Notes to change your firewall setting
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://www.housing.illinois.edu/Futu...0Policies.aspx
-Recommendation: 2GB/24hr limit can be a hassle so manage your bandwidth. I had a CITES worker tell me that they DO monitor your internet activity so FORCE ENCRYPTION or they may 'catch' you.
-Notes: 10/10 mbps speed until you get throttled into class A into 32kbps per flow. If you accumulate 5GB of bandwidth in 24 hours they put you in Class B which is an aggregate of 512kbps for the entire class B section. If you get caught they shut your internet off for a week. Second time they shut it off for the rest of the semester. Private certified dorms (i.e. Bromley Hall, Newman Hall, etc) do not seem to care about how much bandwidth you use, and how you use it.

Mchenry County College
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Maybe
-Can you seed?: Maybe
-Ports blocked: Maybe
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.mchenry.edu/
-Recommendation: Seedbox\Secure FTP\Usenet
-Notes: The staff will care. All computers except the library computers require personalized login. I have not heard any horror stories (but I haven't been there long). Internet connection appears to be a 100\20; lowest I've ever seen it is about 40\12. Typically during the daytime it is very quick and you should be able to pull 4-5MB\s, but torrents are unusable, not sure if it's tracker announces or the whole protocol. I have heard of people getting through, but I don't know if it's bullshit or blind luck. Use FTP (recommend SFTP) or Usenet. Use a secure connection at all times; you can also bring an external harddrive to the library computers and leech off the FTP programs that are installed on every computer. I have yet to try and remove a LAN cable from any of the computers in any lab and connect that directly to a laptop (obviously spoofing it's MAC address); though it may work. As far as I know, they do not care about bandwidth used and go through north of 5TB every month for the entire campus.

Indiana
Indiana University - Bloomington (IU)
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?:Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://filesharing.iu.edu/
-Recommendation: Leech, Seed
-Notes: Indiana University monitors torrent activity primarily through bandwidth activity. If they notice that there are a lot of connections coming to one particular computer, they can then pull up such information and then identify what you are uploading or downloading. One can successfully download and upload on the Indiana University - Bloomington campus network if they limit the amount of peers that are allowed to connect to their computer, say, to under 300 peers. That way, the university's networks won't spike with thousands of peers when you leech and seed. There is also a running rumor that the network admins do not monitor the wired ethernet connection as much as they monitor the "IU Secure" network. So if you use too much bandwidth, chances are they'll notice. It's best to stick with private trackers while using the IU wired network.

They do care about people using public trackers. I know people who have gotten caught using bittorrent on public trackers, and every time they've said that they left µTorrent or whatever running, and thus were connected to thousands of public peers, spiking the network. They were fined like $50 or so and had to take a quiz, on the first offense. Second offense was like a stiffer fine. Third was a week or so suspension from the network, and the fourth offense was a semester suspension. And that doesn't include what the RIAA or whoever would do to students privately.

Valparaiso University (VU)
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?:No
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.valpo.edu/it/about/aup.php
-Recommendation: Leech, Don't Seed
-Notes: Valparaiso does not seem to care about downloading as long as you are not perpetually downloading massive amounts of files. Uploading is also monitored. If you really need to upload, cap it at 5 kb/s. It's not ideal, but they won't notice you. Generally speaking Valpariaso will not actively seek out users unless a) they're hogging bandwidth or b) they get a letter asking them to find a specific student from a media organization.[/b]

Iowa
University of Iowa
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None known
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat They care about quantity of data uploaded and forbid downloading or uploading of copyrighted material, but do not care of quantity of data downloaded and very few people are caught pirating.
-AUP: http://www.uiowa.edu/~our/opmanual/ii/19.htm
-Recommendation: If you live in the dorms, watch how much you seed (I'd suggest capping maximum upload). If you are connecting elsewhere, you shouldn't have to worry about anything.
-Notes: If you upload over 8 GB over a Resnet connection (the one in the dorms) in a seven day period, your internet will be automatically shut off until until the amount uploaded in the last seven days drops below 3 GB. AFAIK, there are no other consequences for passing this limit. I passed the limit many times while I lived in the dorms with no other action taken or warnings given other than my internet being temporarily shut down. If connecting through the university network not in a dorm, there is no upload or download limit and speeds are very fast (I've personally seen utorrent leeching rates of 8 MB/s and seeding rates of 1.5 MB/s). Final note, if your internet is temporarily cut off due to passing the 8 GB/7 day limit, you can still connect to the university network in other buildings with no problems. Iowa is pretty good as big universities go.

Iowa State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None known
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat The only thing mentioned in the AUP is "Setting up file sharing in which protected intellectual property is illegally shared", which is vaguely worded and open for interpretation.
-AUP: http://policy.iastate.edu/policy/it/ethics/#2
-Recommendation: I've been fine, but I think it's safe to assume do everything in moderation to be safe.

Kansas
Kansas State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None known
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No - They do not have any cap on uploading or downloading. I have uploaded over 100gb within a week and nothing happened. There official stance is obviously that you shouldn't do it, but nothing is done to stop it.
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: The only problem I would ever have is that sometimes I would not be connectable anymore, so I would have to change the port in utorrent, and I would be fine.

Louisiana
Louisiana State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Only at on campus housing
-Can you seed?: Only at on campus housing
-Ports blocked: None -- suggested to use 49126 or higher
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes, can only connect from on campus housing
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Force encryption through utorrent
-Notes: Only on campus housing has unfiltered internet (with the exception of very few facility labs). However most athletes live in them so during "Halo / Call of Duty" sprees the internet will be slow. I am in good faith when saying the RIAA violation emails are filtered for auto delete on the Exchange Server.

Nicholls State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None -- suggested to use 49126 or higher
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not really
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Force encryption through utorrent
-Notes: There seems to be a daily cap of about 10gb a day. It resets at midnight. The on campus apartment's internet is separate but has horrible latency depending on where you live. I was the person monitoring for copyright violations, I never cared. Guy who took over after me just likes to play FFXI. Take it for what it's worth.

Southeastern Louisiana University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None -- suggested to use 49126 or higher
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not really
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Force encryption through utorrent
-Notes: If you don't live on campus, use the internet in Fayard Hall; just remember only the 24 hour lab is open around the clock. CMPS labs close at 11pm. None of the computers in either 24 hour lab have optical burners - bring a usb device. The new CMPS director (since 2009) is a dick and forwards RIAA notices to the manager, department leader for the dorm/apartment you might be living in. Most dorm managers don't care with the exception of the one lady running the apartments where Lee Hall used to stand but she's really computer illiterate.

Tulane University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Use utorrent and be sure to follow their instructions on possible ways to download in college. Make sure to download in txt files or they will detect you. Possibly setting a upload cap may be useful.
-Notes: DL is a maximum at 3mbps and upload is high as well. If you are caught blatantly torrenting they will notify you and shut down your internet. They will warn you once, but after that you will be filed action against. Be careful at Tulane.

Maryland
Johns Hopkins University (Homewood Campus)
-Can you download .torrent files?: Sometimes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None known
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://it.jhu.edu/policies/itpolicies.html
-Recommendation: It will be hard, but doable, to maintain a ratio at a private site. Encryption is required.
-Notes: JHU changes their policy on torrents regularly. Generally speaking they place a limit on how many connections an IP address can connect to at once, so you'll find that not all of your torrents will be able to seed simultaneously, and you'll have to stop seeding some in order to download another. At times they block the downloading of .torrent files, and at times they block the access of any site with "torrent" in the name (such as torrentfreak). They are known for coming down extremely hard on people who download torrents, and implicitly recommend using the school's DC++ hub (info available on the JHU wiki). Encryption is required.

McDaniel College
-Can you download .torrent files?: Sometimes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://oldsite.mcdaniel.edu/7705.htm
-Recommendation: Don't use public trackers, download torrents as text files
-Notes: Torrents will download, but orders of magnitude more slowly than text files, which suggests that IT might have something in place against them. I haven't heard of anyone ever getting busted, and I've never had any problems despite never bothering to cap anything, but I don't use public trackers.

University of Maryland College Park
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.nethics.umd.edu/aup
-Recommendation: VPN is a must for torrenting and can be downloaded for free by students from oit's web site http://www.oit.umd.edu and will assign a static IP to your machine, and make it harder to track you.
-Notes: students have in the past had letters from the MAFIAA forwarded to them by oit before but the office has made it blatantly clear that they do not care about the campus dc++ hub and torrenting is only discouraged because people are getting caught by others while doing it.


Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://www.oit.umass.edu/policies/ac...se/policy.html
-Recommendation: Stay on private trackers, you'll be alright.
-Notes: OIT doesn't go after anyone directly, but if they receive a DMCA notice about you, they'll shut off your internet until you take a "I understand what copyright violation means" quiz. They'll let you get away with this once a year, but they won't protect you twice in the same school year. They do packet shaping, but encrypt your torrent traffic and it won't affect you. There is a 1GB/24hr upload limit, so be careful of how much you seed.*
*Personal testimony: I've never seen anything in OIT's rules about this limit. And I upload far more than one gigabyte per day every day. Nothing bad has ever happened, and I really don't think this is a rule.

Boston University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: 58000 is unblocked.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat (describe in Notes)
-AUP: http://www.bu.edu/tech/policies/computing-ethics/
-Recommendation: Go nuts. Just stick to private trackers.
-Notes: Accidentally left transmission uncapped and seeded at 1MB/s all night. Never got a letter, but I still limit it for good measure. A friend has been seeding uncapped for a while now, and BU just doesn't care. Go crazy, I say. Just stick to private trackers.

Boston College
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: All non-essential ports.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No (describe in Notes)
-AUP: https://agora.bc.edu/showform/D1=ago....use.agreement
-Recommendation: Go nuts. Just stick to private trackers.
-Notes: The Wireless has 2 connections: Unsecured and secured. Most people use the secured connection, so if you're looking for speed, use the unsecure. If you're looking for security, use the secure option. Each dorm room is also equipped that has an ethernet port at 100/100. BC does not have a data cap. Just don't abuse it. I've regularly downloaded over 50 GB of data in a day, and uploaded much as well. Just stick to private trackers, as BC does not like DMCA letters.


MIT
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not really
-AUP: http://ist.mit.edu/security/copyright
-Recommendation: Go nuts. Just stick to private trackers.
-Notes: MIT doesn't do their own enforcement, but if they get a take down notice, they will forward it to you and give you at least one warning. I've never heard of anyone actually getting more than a warning, but I also don't know of anyone that got more than one. I've personally torrented ~3TB up and down here without problems.


Northeastern University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Only if you get a letter
-AUP: http://www.northeastern.edu/infoservices/?page_id=97
-Recommendation: Stick to private trackers and go nuts.
-Notes: Used ~2TB of bandwidth so far this year (and downloaded ~140GB of data in one day) (Sep to Feb 2012), have had no problems at all. The university does not care at all, as long as you don't get a letter from a content owner. Even then, they just forward the letter to you and tell you to deal with it. Upload speed is capped at 6Mb/s up on Ethernet, doesn't seem to be capped on wireless (though download is much slower). Download speed is actually capped by the wiring in most dorms, the university has 2Gb/s available but most dorms are wired for 100/100. Source: Work for IT support at the university. To recap: Use private sites, don't be stupid, and you shouldn't have any problems at all.

Tufts University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://uit.tufts.edu/?pid=444&c=104
-Recommendation: Try and stick to the private trackers
-Notes: I downloaded over 100 GB last year with no problems. Seeded constantly for a total of about 30 GB over the course of the year. I downloaded music from what and games from various public trackers without seeding to the public trackers. I never heard anything from IT, though a friend of mine claims he torrented something, got caught, and lost internet privileges for a few days. I also helped a friend get Windows on his Mac and had to download the OS to his computer to help him. I forgot to stop the seeding and he upped 250 GB in two days, but he didn't get caught. So you should be pretty safe.
Another testimony (October 2011): Have had no trouble downloading and seeding. From what I understand the university only takes note if you get a DMCA notice or if you use unreasonable amounts of upload bandwidth.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: No
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: All
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: YES
-AUP: http://www.wpi.edu/offices/policies/aup.html
-Recommendation: Private Seedbox and Private Trackers
-Notes: Since being here I have learned that the school
is hardcore about piracy, they don't like torrenting at
all and will disconnect your connection if you are caught.
The only way to get things is through rapidshare or FTPing (SFTP recommended)
to a Seedbox where the torrents are run and the data is stored initially.


Missouri
Truman State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes, but not well most of the time
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not sure
-AUP: http://its.truman.edu/documentation/...ctual_Property
-Recommendation: Stay on private trackers. If you want to be able to seed consistently, get a seedbox.
-Notes: I and several others have had a very easy time pirating on Truman's network. I've heard stories of people getting letters and such, but nobody that I've met and very likely nobody who uses exclusively private trackers. I've downloaded 250-750GB of content on their connection, and have not heard a thing from the administration. Down and up speed are entirely contingent on how much use the network is getting; down and up speed during peak times is low as 20kB/s up and down. I have, however, spent an entire weekend seeding at 250-800kB/s over the wireless connection, and have gotten up to 1.2MB/s down speed at times. It's kind of a crapshoot.

New Hampshire
Plymouth State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.plymouth.edu/office/infor...-Agreement.pdf
-Recommendation: SSH + Seedbox
-Notes: Some people seem to be in trouble, but it doesn't happen often. For the most part from what it seems working in IT they only care if they get yelled at, and otherwise leave you alone. Slow internet connection and this rule make SSH and a Seedbox a faster and safer choice but you might be able to get through fine without them. Warnings are given before any action is taken.


New Jersey
Rutgers, New Brunswick
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://oit.rutgers.edu/acceptable-use.html
-Recommendation: Seeding works but you're unconnectable. Use DC++ unless you don't mind dealing with it.
-Notes: The school recieves many copyright notices but has so far ignored them and has been telling IT to ignore them.

New Mexico
University of New Mexico
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No as long as they don't copyright notices from people
-AUP: http://it.unm.edu/accts/agreement_form.html
-Recommendation: Limit how much you do. They seem to kick you off the wireless and then throttle you if you download a lot
-Notes: They don't filter/block anything but will contact you if they see a copyright notice from someone. Use the secure wifi over the regular wifi for faster speeds. Probably best to avoid public trackers and stick to private ones.

New York
Binghamton University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: No
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: To be determined; for me it looks like everything but 139, 445, 3689, and 17500
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://computing.binghamton.edu/policies/acceptable-use
-Recommendation: Get a seedbox; looks like they've blocked any hope.
-Notes: Bandwidth is limited to 200Kbit/s in the dorms, and there is a 2GB total transfer/day/MAC address limit. They're hard on DC++, won't recommend it.

Syracuse University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes (Changes needed)
-Can you seed?: Maybe (Changes needed)
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://supolicies.syr.edu/it/computing.htm
-Recommendation: If you have a seedbox use that. If not, you'll need to use a private HTTPS proxy to update with the tracker, or tunnel to another box (over a secure connection, they monitor for updates and will kill it if they see an update command). Make sure encryption is enabled at ALL times.
-Notes: Throttles unencrypted connections, blocks tracker updates, kills connections often. Leeching works most of the time with encryption, but seeding rarely works (connections are killed shortly after they are made), even with encryption. Encryption is required to connect to the tracker (this means a HTTPS proxy or some kind of tunnel) since tracker updates are blocked. School's policy is notoriously tough if a letter is received, revoking network access for the rest of the semester.

Marist College
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Everything below 50000
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.marist.edu/it/infosecurity/p2p.html
-Recommendation: You don't need to encrypt to connect, but you should anyway.
-Notes: I've downloaded over 500 GBs and uploaded over 4 TBs this semester alone, there is no cap on bandwidth. The connection is around 100 MBs up & down, but if you're using a high traffic volume of 3 MBs or greater during the day then they may slap you with a "speeding ticket". They never penalize students for torrenting unless they get a notification from a company or, as stated, if you're using a lot of bandwidth from 7 AM - 10 PM.

University at Buffalo
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: Maybe, Untested
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://ubit.buffalo.edu/resnet/use.php
-Recommendation: Get a seedbox if you don't have buffer to burn.
-Notes: The school only seems to do technical things to mess with people like throttling and making DNS work poorly. Also the school has a DC++ hub that is smiled upon due to its lack of viruses, but that hub is lacking in good rips.

Ohio
Case Western Reserve University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://tiswww.case.edu/net/policy/
-Recommendation: Bring an extra computer and setup your own seedbox using the campus connection
-Notes: Case's physical connection to the internet is a gigabit ethernet link (students get speeds of 100Mb/100Mb in residence halls). Fiber across campus. No caps in current use. Occasionally they will pick off excessive bandwidth users (sustained speeds of 1MB/s or higher for 6+ hours or 2500+ connections, tips them off). Used to have a large DC++ hub, which has been shutdown. Heavy outbound traffic has been a result, and speeds are now inconsistent(download between 1MB/s and 10MB/s). On average, I push 1TB/month upload and 150GB/month download.

Ohio Northern University
-Can you download .torrent files?: No
-Can you leech?: No
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Seedbox
-Notes: Seeded and leeched a small amount (10GB total a month) and didn't hear any complaints.

University of Dayton
as of 2011 school year, UD has taken a more active engagement in illegal torrent downloading.
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Public Ports (49152–65535)
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes (use ports 0 - 49151)
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: No
-AUP: http://udit.udayton.edu/digitalAsset...aup_policy.pdf
-Recommendation: None
-Notes: Throttles all IPv4 torrent connections in ResNet to 50 kB/s, but does not throttle IPv6 connections. The academic network does not throttle bittorrent traffic on either protocol. It's against the AUP to illegally torrent but they don't care. If they are given RIAA, MPAA, etc notifications they WILL give them your details (as required by law). They have a 1st offense class and after that your internet is cut off. They don't actively monitor traffic, though.

Ohio University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://www.ohio.edu/policy/91-003.html
-Recommendation: Seedbox
-Notes: IT runs Audible Magic which usually IDs popular copyrighted audio (most music and movies, rarely flags TV or audiobooks). Wireless requires a login and IT will shut down ethernet ports flagged by a DMCA notice or Audible Magic and ban the associated MAC address. Admins have a three strikes policy, so you can get burned once without any serious punishment -- as long as you agree not to do it again.

Ohio State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://cio.osu.edu/policies/responsible_use.html
-Recommendation: Seedbox
-Notes: Seems like if you are careful about it they won't care but there are people who have been caught. A lot of people do it though so you might be fine if you encrypt and just don't go crazy on the uploads.

Oregon
Oregon State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None?
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes?
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://oregonstate.edu/helpdocs/onid...ng-started/aup
-Recommendation: OK to use AHD
-Notes: Only use private sites, if downloading material like apps, music, movies, etc.

Reed College
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: All
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.reed.edu/cis/policies/user_agreement.html
-Recommendation: It actually seems fine to torrent on campus (Private torrents only, of course)
[hide]1) What is the internet speed for users in Reed dorms (download and upload)?

Very fast! I don't know exactly. But of course it's shared with 2000 other
people... so it varies by amount of traffic and time of day.
My memory says 30GB, but I could be off by a lot.

Currently Internet bandwidth is 200mb shared by all network users, not
just the dorms. For someone sharing legal content via BitTorrent our
outbound traffic is usually not maxed out. Please be sure that your
traffic is legal. Copyright owners are much more likely to send a DMCA
takedown notice to a College than to Comcast.

2) How is bandwidth restricted and what are the grounds for restriction?

It's a per-user per-time restriction, so everyone gets their fair share in any
given time period. It's not restricted based on traffic type, which we used to
do.

Usually outbound traffic is not restricted because we are not pushing
200 mb.

3) Are P2P/BitTorrent connection speeds limited in any way?

Only by the above-mentioned per-user limits.

We may limit the number of individual flows. Also since a wireless
access point is a resource that is shared with all the other users
accessing the network using that access point we discourage sustained
high bandwidth use of the wireless network.

4) Is it possible for ports to be opened/forwarded?

If necessary for academic or important personal use, you can work with TIS.

5) Are any ports blocked on the Reed campus network?

For registered academic users not that I know of, but there are limitations on
e.g. the wireless network. For instance, bonjour broadcasting and sharing does
not work on the wireless network.

We don't block outbound ports.

6) Are there times of the day when user traffic is not monitored?

I believe the per-user bandwidth caps are always in effect, but they may just
divide the total bandwidth by number of people using it.

They aren't really bandwidth caps, it is automated bandwidth sharing.
There is no restriction if the total bandwidth being used is less than
something like 80% of the total. It is always on.


These are the speeds from my dorm room, plugged in to the ethernet. wifi seems to be about 10/10.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1456129132.png

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Pennsylvania
Penn State University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes (limited)
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Seedbox
-Notes: They probably don't actively search the network for torrenters, but there are horror stories of them handing over information and disconnecting. The biggest issue is the strictly enforced 10GB download / 10GB upload per week bandwidth limit. If the limit is overstepped, the connection is degraded to 56k temporarily, unless there were 3 prior offenses, at which point it is permanent.

University of Pennsylvania
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?:Somewhat (describe in Notes)
-AUP: http://www.upenn.edu/computing/policy/copyright.html/
-Recommendation: Don't torrent on the network
-Notes:
They don't actually block anything but they will send you a warning if you are caught. Them catching people seems pretty random. The AirPennNet is too slow for good torrenting anyways.

University of Pittsburgh
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Unsure
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not really (see notes)
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Do whatever you want
-Notes: You will read in every technology packet you come across that piracy is not allowed and punishable but follow the same measures you would anywhere else (try and stick to private trackers, be wary of bullshit, etc) and you'll be fine.

Texas
Rice University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Random ones like 65000 worked.
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Usually
-Encryption required to connect?: Yes
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: None
-Notes: If you sometimes show as unconnectable and just leave your computer on and seeding, eventually you'll become connectable. They don't care if you torrent, but if they get an RIAA complaint about you, they disable your port and blacklist your mac address until you talk to the IT security guy who tells you not to do it again. The school employs several packet shapers.

Texas A&M University
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: No
-Ports blocked: All
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Yes
-AUP: http://nis.tamu.edu/Home/IT_Policy/N...Use_Policy.php
-Recommendation: You should probably build a buffer.
-Notes: Traffic is shaped, encryption does not seem to affect this. Getting about anywhere from 10 KB/s to half the download speed that a speedtest reveals on well-seeded torrents. School states for no copyrighted material to be possessed through the network.


Vermont
University of Vermont
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: Unknown
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: No
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Not Really
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: None
-Notes: School IT department has no idea what's going on. I'm sure you could ask them to open a port for a video game or something and they'll comply. Really. They have no idea what they're doing.

Virginia
Virginia Tech
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: http://www.vt.edu/about/acceptable-use.html
-Recommendation: Use only private trackers; throttle bandwidth or seedbox
-Notes: 4.7 GB per day upload cap for off-campus IPv4 connections; no cap for on-campus IPs or IPv6. First DMCA letter will result in a warning, subsequent ones will result in a conduct referral.

University of Virginia
-Can you download .torrent files?: Yes
-Can you leech?: Yes
-Can you seed?: Yes
-Ports blocked: None
-Are you connectable / port forwarding available?: Yes
-Encryption required to connect?: No
-Does the school care?: Somewhat
-AUP: Unknown
-Recommendation: Friends and I have seeded constantly non-stop and have been fine, and so should you. Unless you get a DMCA violation or download something like 20GB a week they won't do anything. During the site-wide freeleech two friends and I downloaded 700GB in one weekend and nothing happened.
-Notes: Ports are forwarded on the unencrypted wireless network.
The school's policy is don't do it. You won't get in trouble unless you hog bandwidth constantly or if you get a DMCA complaint. On first offense they tell you to delete the offending files and let them know you stopped within three days or you get disconnected from the network. Second offense is a $100 fine and immediate disconnection from the network for a minimum of 10 days. Third offense is immediate disconnection for 40 days and a $300 fine. Also, "You might also be liable for University judicial proceedings."


This data is originally from the hard work of the members of WCD and can be found at https://what.cd/wiki.php?action=article&id=321

Would you know the DC++ info for Dalhousie University?