firewall trick for faster BitTorrent downloads

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Tue Mar 21 18:17:09 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-20-03 at 15:15 -0500, Phil wrote:
> I diabled my firewall to test out bittorrent... still no luck....
Check with your ISP, they may be blocking Bittorent.

Many Large ISP's are blocking P2P ports and some have layer 4
filters that detect torrent traffic even if it is run on 
alternate ports.

If you are using the latest version of Azureus you can enable 
Transport Encryption options under :
Tools -> Options...
 Connection -> Transport Encryption

Note: Not all clients support Transport Encryption yet, but
if your ISP is blocking torrent traffic and will not make an 
exception for you, this may get you going.




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