W4RP3D Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Im having problems getting good download speeds using torrents, after a few minutes googleing I found that my ISP provider (Tiscali) throttles down torrents, Im using uTorrent 1.6 and im not getting more than 20kb/s which is quite typical for other torrents ive downloaded. Where as I normally get 100kb/s downloading normally 120kb/s on a good day. Is there any way i can bypass the throttleing down?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Have you tried enabling encryption? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W4RP3D Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 Yer i believe so... Protocol Encryption Outgoing: Forced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 See if you can change the ports it's using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I've often wondered if using port 80, or 53 might work in conjunction with encryption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W4RP3D Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 I changed it to port 80, and its jumped up slightly to 30kb/s. Which is better than it was just not as good as it probably can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remkow Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 It can of course also be that all seeders/ other leechers have limited their upload limits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W4RP3D Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 thanks everyone I didnt even think of the encryption :oops: its now a lot higher remkow i think you were right (noobish moment) thanks agian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I've also, heard that it's actually good to use very high port numbers, as in >50,000 because then it looks like you're not serving something but instead it's just one of those ports that the computer chose for your return port number for a connection that you started to a server out somewhere. I don't force protocol encryption but rather only leave it on there as an option to use. I don't really see why you should not allow traffic that would be slowed down, since it's better than not having that connection at all. + it's also kinda not nice for those that use a client that doesn't yet support protocol encryption Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoR_Wraith Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 Like Garda said, change Encryption from forced to enabled. Having it on forced will stop you connecting to a fair number of people - whereas enabled gives you all the benefits of encryption but still allows you to connect to non-encrypted nodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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