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That's the college's firewall. They have all the ports stealthed, at least, which means nothing can see if they're open. There's a pretty good chance that anything besides normal ports (80, whatever the other internet and FTP ports are) is closed.
Also, they probably have some form of packet shaper. They can determine what sort of traffic it is by seeing where the data is coming from, what size packets it comes in, etc. The priority for this type of traffic and for, say, games is set very low, whereas normal web browsing and email are significantly higher.
So basically, unless you can bed one of the IT staff and covince him/her to forward traffic through one specific port for you, you're SOL. I've heard rumors that setting up a proxy can help some of these issues, but I could never get it to work. I had the same problem transferring from the proxy as from anywhere else.
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