Hey, encrypt your Bittorrent traffic ASAP. First it means you avoid any kind of snooping by your ISP, which may include traffic shaping, second, it seems to massively increase your speed.
Info here on how to do it with a few clients. For Azureus, I skipped points 4 and 5, thus allowing no fallbacks, I only connect to other peers that encrypt packets. More info here.
I’ve really seen massive torrent speed increases since switching this on.
I was wondering about this (was in the news somewhere over the weekend…), thanks for the link.
Of course, most of the shows I watch are done for the season so I have not been torrenting as much.
Thanks Shaky.
Good post. I was looking at this over the weekend but didn’t know it actually increased DL speeds, so cheers!
BTW dgnyhk it was covered by Click on the BBC
I reckon it’s cos more and more people are now using it with no fallbacks.
Yep could be… BTW did you manage to get I2P working? I’m not sure I have that sussed but maybe I don’t need it?
Never got time to try it out. Don’t think I need it now though if all this is encrypted already.