Comcast Throttles P2P, But You Can Beat ‘Em

Many of us have a broadband connection. Nowadays it’s almost necessary with how much script is imbedded in popular websites. Some companies boast a 6Mbps (small b) which is about 750KBps (big B) connection. That’s pretty fast. An average full motion picture is about 750MB which clocks you in at less than a half an hour for a 2 hour movie. Comcast is one of the companies that offer the huge upgrade. Would you use that much speed for browsing the internet? Maybe if you want to watch 15 You Tube videos…at the same time. Just know they won’t be anything from Viacom (Comedy Central). So why would you need the Flash Gordon of broadband connections? Simple, P2P. Well, you might want to consider the fact that Comcast is now throttling Bit Torrents. People have been noticing dramatic speeds drops. What’s worse is that seeding (uploading) is almost completely halted. While some don’t care about uploading, it’s what keeps P2P alive. Some programs/private tracker sites monitor your upload ratio and throttle downloads accordingly. My suggestion is to switch ISPs but Comcast is growing so quickly and snatching up smaller ISPs, Katamari style, that you may not have that option; in that case I’ve done a little research for you. You can encrypt your tracker headers and still use your Torrent programs to download licit, legitimate files such as Linux ISO’s, right?

What does encryption Do?
RC4 encryption befogs the entire stream of data making it difficult for your ISP to determine what kind of traffic it is.

How do I do it?

All Torrent clients are different, here are the more popular ones.

Azureus
Switch to uTorrent. Seriously, you must be a saddist if you use this. I’ll even make it easy for you. CLICK HERE

Bitcomet
1. Click: Options > Preferences > Advanced > Connection
2. Click: ‘Protocol encryption’ Click either ‘auto detect’ and ‘always’. Auto detect will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers. (Comcast may throttle it)

µTorrent
1. Click: Options > Preferences > Bittorrent
2. Click ‘Protocol encryption’, check ‘enabled’ or ‘forced’. ‘Enabled’ will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers. (Comcast may throttle it)

I suggest you try ‘enabled’ first, if that doesn’t increase speed, you need to swich to ‘forced’.

3. Ticking ‘Allow legacy incoming connections’ allows non ecrypted clients to connect to you. This improves compatibility between clients but makes you more vulnerable to traffic shapers.

I suggest you tick this box, but if that doesn’t increase speeds, untick it!

Hope that helps

L8z,
AleX

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