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Port 1214 rate restrictions
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Port 1214 is commonly used for file exchange by applications like Morpheus and Kazaa. However, excessive campus use of these services has been regularly claiming up to 30% of the available campus bandwidth. In order to prevent abuse of campus-wide bandwidth by a single service, the following policy is being implemented.
Beginning Saturday, December 1, 2001, all use of port 1214 that crosses the campus perimeter (i.e. through the firewalls) will be restricted to 2 megabits per second. This means that all users crossing the UIUC perimeter through port 1214 (inward or outward) will share this 2 megabit per second allotment. If few users are accessing it or the files being accessed are small, port 1214 information will travel relatively quickly; if many users are accessing it or the files are large, it will perform relatively slowly. This restriction will apply to all campus systems, not just dorm use.
This policy may affect network researchers and application developers if their research and/or applications plan for use of port 1214 across campus boundaries. If this policy will negatively affect your University-related work or research, contact the Operations Center at 244-1000 to make arrangements which will enable you to perform your research as needed.
Within-campus use of port 1214 (traffic which goes only to and from UIUC-based addresses) will not be affected by this rate restriction.
The 750 megabyte per day file transfer limit currently enforced on URHnet is a separate issue from the port 1214 traffic. No matter which 750 megabytes per day a residence hall user chooses to download, any files accessed over port 1214 from or to an off-campus location will be subject to the campus-wide rate restriction. Similarly, whether someone uses port 1214 from a dorm room, a lab, or an office, the same rate restriction applies.
http://www.cso.uiuc.edu/news/port1214.html
Is there anyway to get around this restriction? Is it possible to select a different port or something? I'm using Kazaa and i don't want to go down without fighting a little longer.
