This might be important information for accessing this site..

[lololulu19]

At McDonalds, I have found that I can access this site fine.. the torrents and the forum. HOWEVER, If I start up my torrent client (Qbittorrent or Utorrent) and start transferring, then the security terminates my connection.

It is odd that the website is not blocked, but the transfer of files is verboten.

[tnar]

@lololulu19
The website and the rest are different protocols - it's not surprising the torrents are blocked at a public access point.

[lololulu19]

@tnar yes...that is what I thought. It used to be that they blocked this site (and others). Now it seems that they don't block sites, but do block torrent TRANSFERS.

I have not verified it yet, but I think they also block when you attempt to use a VPN proxy.

[MrMazda]

@lololulu19 This is because they try to censor P2P traffic across their network. If you have a VPN like PrivateVPN, you can connect to the VPN using port TCP 443 to evade their port restrictions and packet sniffing, then open your torrent client, and it should give you no problems.

The key is using TCP 443... Traditional VPN connections can be filtered based on port, however you cannot realistically censor or block port TCP 443 without blocking most of the internet.

[lololulu19]

@MrMazda I have NordVPN, but I assume I can do that with it. I will give it a shot in a day or two.

[MrMazda]

@lololulu19 Some VPN providers also have a DPI firewall option, which will not only use TCP 443 instead of the default UDP 1194, but will also block DPI systems from determining that the traffic is actually VPN traffic.