Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

I've noticed now using my BitTorrent client uTorrent i've been getting poor speeds in the evening, not really going anything above 100KB/s - now is there anything i can do to avoid it, someone told me in uTorrent settings to select
"Forced" under "Protocol Encryption" Outgoing

It can't be this easy can it?

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

I raised this point earlier.... Jury is still out on it.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...6#post34132346

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

Problem is that the shaping software :mad: can be made to kick in if it see's a large amount of connection being opened on a certain port or to slow down anything that is NOT identifiable.

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

Does it matter which port i select in uTorrent settings also? WHats the best port to use?

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

To be honest i dont think the port matters. I stopped using bittorent 2 years ago and only use Newsgroups now.

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

Are you sure you are being effected by traffic shaping and that you havent just misconfigured your client? I never get less then 400KB/s at the moment unless the total available bandwidth is less than that.

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

Its only been happening since like last 2/3 weeks ....

Even right now that torrent is giving out speeds of 22MB/s and im only getting 170KB/s or less - they must be traffic shaping 24/7 in my area.

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

I don't normally notice the speed as I leave them to run in the background while I'm in bed - also, like Bill, I normally use newsgroups, only switching to torrents for low priority stuff, or files not yet on the newsgroups.

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

Hey people,

How are you using newsgroup's for file downloads instead of bittorrent's??
I'm new to this. Any help would be great.

Cheers

Re: Avoid BitTorrent Traffic Shaping
 

This works with so called 'binary' newsgroups, basically the file is broken up & encoded as several smaller 'parts', which are uploaded to the server. People wanting to download the file, need to decode & recombine the parts to reconstruct the original.

It can get a little complicated, as different encoding protocols exist, but usually, using a decent newsgroup client program will do a lot of the hard work, for you.