Many ISP’s are limiting or throttling P2P traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question. In this tutorial I will tell you how to avoid traffic shaping on Azureus!
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Go to: Tools > Options > Connection > Transport Encryption
2.
Check the ‘require encrypted transport’ box.
3.
Choose RC4 in the ‘minimum encryption’ dropdown box
RC4 uses more CPU time than the plain encryption or no encryption. It is however harder to identify for traffic shaping devices. You can check your CPU Usage through the Windows Task Manager (Alt+Ctrl+Delete)
4.
You can choose to tick the ‘Allow non-encrypted outgoing connections if encrypted connection attempt fails’ box. This will ensure compatibility with clients that are not using encryption. However, it makes it easier for your ISP to detect BitTorrent traffic. I recommend that you try to tick this box first. If you are still not getting proper speeds untick it
5.
Tick the ‘Allow non-encrypted incoming connections’ box
Ok, that’s all.. easy right?
November 22nd, 2006 at 8:04 pm
awesome dude you rule my torrents are running faster then ever even during my isps shapping time period, thanks heaps.
September 5th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Thank you very very much!!!!
October 21st, 2007 at 12:22 am
Do you have to stop & re-start your torrents and/or do you have to stop & re-start Azureus???
Is this tweak applied automatically?
December 18th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
this tweak hasnt worked for me i get the same sort of speed. Sometimes quite alot slower! dont know why, perhaps just doesnt work for some torrents! -_-
July 30th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Didn’t work for me either. Apparently some ISPs are using more sophisticated techniques to identify p2p traffic than others.