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Originally Posted by Confederate
um, first off I'm not rude, and I can't connect to torrents so im not hogging anything.
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That was more of a cautionary statement, regarding the possibility for hogging all the apartments bandwidth (aka the cable crisis of early 2000)
Anyway, when you are on a wireless router, you almost always have to have the specific port forwarded to your computer. I use uTorrent, and the specific port I have it running on is forwarded to my computers IP. If you do not have it forwarded, the router will send it out to all computers at the same time until someone picks it up. It usually never works this way though, thus the port forwarding part of it. Think of it as Line of Sight. If someone on the outside cannot see you (DHT Failed due to not being forward to your computer) they cannot make that connection. Firewalls can also prevent line of sight access (the router can sometimes be thought of as a mini firewall)
Since you don't have access to the router, you can see if the apartments network guy/handy man has access and would be willing to forward that port to you. They probably won't though.
Like Dilbert said, you are probably better off just getting your own connection, that way you can manage the router yourself.