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Originally Posted by punky
It seems there is a way to bypass traffic shaping under BitTorrent. It involves enabling encryption under your BT client. Because your ISP can't 'read' this encrypted traffic, it can't tell its BT traffic and can't filter it.
Anyway, I found this which tells you how to enable it.
It would be great if someone on here subject to traffic shaping can come out and say it works or not. |
Actually, if James Henry is correct, NTL's traffic shaping can detect encrypted bit torrent traffic. I don't know how it works (and even if I did, I wouldn't discuss it in public). Remember, they don't need to be able to read the traffic, they just need to recognise the encryption. There would HAVE to be a certain pattern in the encrypted data for the torrent client to be able to detet it. NTL just need to look for that pattern.
Of course, that's assuming they don't just traffic shape any traffic they can't access.