Comments on: How to evade throttling with uTorrent

By: Yo

Yo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:19:28 +0000

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.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:37:05 +0000

“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.

By: NO1UNO

NO1UNO — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:46:14 +0000

Between the VPN port i never knew about, and my new router, things are certainly looking up!!

By: lando calrissian

lando calrissian — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:08:50 +0000

anyone else notice the 44 kb/s upload speed? your not evading anything clearly your still being throttled.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:27 +0000

“…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).

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:44:38 +0000

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…

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:06:28 +0000

@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.

By: NO1UNO

NO1UNO — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:03:02 +0000

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!

By: NO1UNO

NO1UNO — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:19:58 +0000

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

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:06:34 +0000

@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.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:01:56 +0000

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.)

By: Comeoncomcast (aka Andrew)

Comeoncomcast (aka Andrew) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:59:57 +0000

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 ):

By: bork

bork — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:59:37 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:28:49 +0000

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).