Bypass ISP Torrent Throttleing

[W4RP3D]

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??

[metatron]

Have you tried enabling encryption?

[W4RP3D]

Yer i believe so... Protocol Encryption Outgoing: Forced

[cooper]

See if you can change the ports it's using.

[VaKo]

I've often wondered if using port 80, or 53 might work in conjunction with encryption.

[W4RP3D]

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.

[remkow]

It can of course also be that all seeders/ other leechers have limited their upload limits

[W4RP3D]

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

[Garda]

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

[KoR_Wraith]

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.