How to evade throttling with uTorrent
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A little more than a year ago p2pnet ran an item explaining how to get around around what the telcos euphemistically call ‘traffic management’.
Now, under Evading throttling with uTP / uTorrent 1.9a, David Sanftenberg provides a kind of update via a Reader’s Write link pointing to a dslreports post.
“It’s strange that a lot of people don’t seem to have success with this, because in my experience, forcing uTP in uTorrent with this particular configuration beats the Bell throttle consistently,” he says, going on »»»
So, walkthrough.
You’ll need the uTorrent 1.9 alpha, this is a link to the March 24th build. 
Once you’ve gotten that, you’ll need to do the following.
Set the bittorrent configuration options as you see here in these screenshots.
In the advanced settings, you’ll need to force bt.transp_disposition to 10, in order to force uTorrent only to use the uTP UDP protocol.
Note that the specific port setting is important in my experience.
If MLPPP isn’t an option for you, this should get you unthrottled reasonably well.
Results in the last screenie at 12am during throttling hours, after about 25mins of solid downloading.
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“I’ve done everything that dbsanfte wrote in his screenshot steps and yes, it does work,” says Leafie in a dslreports comment, adding:
“I’m now getting 400+ kB/s. I followed everything from getting the new uTorrent 1.9 alpha, changing all the numbers around, and setting any true/false as need be. Works like a charm so a big thanks to you.”
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Says Arbalister: “Just tried it here, after watching a transfer that wouldn’t get above 28K for about 20 minutes. Downloaded, installed, started 1.9a, same speed…changed the config, hit apply…and the same torrent is now running 150K and climbing.
“Edit Oh … just noticed, after the restart changing from 1.8.3 to 1.9a, a second torrent that I had paused earlier in the session restarted … so I’ve gone from one download at no more then 28K to 2 running simultaneously at 150k and 90K”
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Says davidbrown: “Its not perfect but it can sure help.
“Also be sure to get the latest versions of utorrent 1.9 which can be found in the announcement section of the utorrent forum.
“You can still be affected but it makes it much harder for them to do so.”
(Cheers, David)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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September 11th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I’m assuming this can be done with uTorrent 2.0.0 Beta 16394 which is the latest version? Personally I don’t like turning off DHT, especially with how flaky TPB’s various tracker addresses have been lately. Sometimes it’s the only way to find any seed/peers at all. An inoperative tracker + no DHT = no download. This is why uploaders should be encouraged to create their torrents with it enabled (which it often is with TV shows, but rarely with movies).
September 11th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Using the beta 1.8.4. Just setting the bt.transp_dispostion to 10 resulted the peers on comcast networks to wake up. Before I was getting about 27kB/s them, after they jumped to about 200kB/s.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I have a suggestion.
Change to a Non-Throttling ISP(if you have the time and money) lol > http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs#Australia
Australia has 5 ):
September 11th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
The top picture displays possibly the most important part of the procedure that wasn’t talked about in the text here…
Using Port 1723 (Virtual Network) as the listening port.
Also important would be setting up the router to forward port 1723 for both UDP and TCP, and port 500 for UDP, for utorrent.exe.
(For those who needed to know.)
September 11th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
@Andrew:
It would be nice to have the choice of providers, but up here in Bell and Rogers Country, all service is throttled, even the 3rd party DSL providers (as they’re being choked by Bell). Hence the “Beat the Bell Throttle” title that’s usually on these instructions.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Right, and what do I need to do to find this vers of utorrent?? None of the links to it work, the only copy I can find is
1.8.2
September 11th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
OK, I,m not done playing with it yet, but so far i’m impressed. It works with my version so far, and I’m getting higher speed than I ever got before!
September 11th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
@NO1UNO:
If it’s working for you with version 1.8.2, you might want to keep it for a while.
The difference between 1.8 and 1.9/2.0 is that starting with 1.9, the option to do it all through UDP is there. Some say that works for them, others say it’s ineffectual.
I’m actually still using 1.8.1, and my downloads average anywhere from 400KB/s to 800KB/s, using a standard Bell DSL connection. I’ve even gone over 1100KB/s on a number of occasions.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:44 am
And then a couple hours later, uTorrent kills your net connection and forces you to reboot to get things working again. What’s the solution to this? According to the authors, you need to buy better hardware…
September 12th, 2009 at 11:49 am
“…uTorrent kills your net connection and forces you to reboot…”
I’ve never experienced that.
It does sound more like a hardware-oriented problem (most often the router).
September 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
anyone else notice the 44 kb/s upload speed? your not evading anything clearly your still being throttled.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Between the VPN port i never knew about, and my new router, things are certainly looking up!!
September 12th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
“anyone else notice the 44 kb/s upload speed?”
Regardless of your port choice, download client, or any other settings, Bell doesn’t let any uploads exceed 80KB/s.
I get the whole 80KB.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
anyone know if this still works?
I tried it maybe a month or two ago and was getting phenomenal speeds. Haven’t had a need to download anything since then, just booted it up for the last two nights, and the speeds are incredibly slow. I haven’t changed any of the settings, everything is the same as it was two months a back when I was pulling upwards of 200k for downloads. No I’m back at like 10k.