Piracy on campus WiFi

Honestly if you are doing only torrents, then using a debrid service works great. I have tried VPN, Usenet, and debrid. You copy the magnet link or upload the .torrent file and if it's a popular file, it will already be downloaded and you can download from them immediately. Otherwise you wait a little bit for them to download it. Doing this does not require VPN and typically it is hosted at a fast server and will download as fast as your internet can go. It's 3€ a month which is less than a good VPN anyway.

Use a VPN all the time, not only when you need it.

If you want to buy a little insurance for your self look into getting a seed box. Then you can download from the seed box with a VPN over sftp. I would think that would be pretty hard to determine what you're doing but I don't know enough about it to speak confidently one way or the other.

As long as you have a verified setup going over a VPN you should be OK. Same goes for a residential ISP since they have your address, contact and billing info. Just make sure they can't see what ur doing and it should be Gucci

VPN worked for me and others all through uni, adding in the seed box layer seems even better.

If you can use a VPN, do it. They probably won't block them.

Seedbox or vpn with remoting into a home sever would be safest

Guest network would be best as any large downloads can be tracked back to your account.

Randomize Mac address

And for overkill, try to randomize which wifi node you are using to be less predictable.

my only advice, don't do it without a VPN, proton, ivpn or mullvad

with ivpn and proton, be sure to have some other stuff open on the same device to make some extra noise to help prevent fingerprinting the traffic

with mullvad, enable DAITA, matter of fact, use DAITA whenever you're using mullvad, it makes things a bit slower, but it's worth it to not have to worry about any AI finding a pattern in your traffic

i don't even know what the it dept thought when i was in university and napster/kazaa were just becoming a thing and people went from 56k at home to t1.

I wouldn't risk it.

VPN should be enough. Just make sure you bind your torrent client to the VPN interface. If you want to be extra careful, use a seedbox or a debrid service.