Well, it would appear that even with encryption turned on it wont work. Pain in the arse, but i'm moving out in a couple of weeks anyway so I guess I can wait.

Thats nothing to do with the encryption.

Could be a NAT issue or they could be blocking that port.

Because the port check fails doesn't necessarily mean that utorrent won't work.

Even with encryption enabled I get this error:

Welcome to the µTorrent Port Checker.
A test will be performed on your computer to check if the specified port is opened.

Checking port 23417 on 82.108.83.174...

Error! Port 23417 does not appear to be open.

Please see www.portforward.com for more information about how to map a port.

Please make absolutely sure that PeerGuardian2 or Protowall is allowing utorrent.com (72.20.34.145) in either of those programs. Those of you using ipfilter.dat should make sure the list does not include the website's IP. After making sure of this, re-run this test by refreshing the page (F5).

if they haven't block socks ports and you have a proxy running on another connection then yeah it should work :thumbs:

Possibly try encrypting bittoreent headers like in utorrent.

They can quite easily find that as well now though afaik.

Worth a try anyway.

In my block of flats the internet is provided through a LAN by some bullshit useless company who have banned FTP, Bit Torrent and just about anything to make contact with the network for some reason...

Can you get Bit Torrent to work through a proxy server get past the firewall, or would that not work either?