Privacy has always been a major concern for BitTorrent users and there are only a few ways to remain anonymous. By using a secure connection, as the new TorrentPrivacy tool offers, you can bypass almost every firewall or traffic shaping application, while making sure that nobody can see what you're downloading.
… “regular” BitTorrent is traffic is suffering from throttling ISP’s that claim that BitTorrent traffic is cluttering their pipes. …
… alternative to Azureus for Linux users who suffer from throttling ISP’s. Protocol header encryption makes it harder for traffic …
… encryption”. To protect yourself against traffic shaping / throttling ISP’s. Tracker: Does the client have a (built in) tracker. Can be …
… there is a solution. Encrypting your torrents will prevent throttling ISP’s from shaping your traffic. I will explain how to enable …
… recently China Tietong and Nanjing Telecom are actively throttling BitTorrent …
… encryption is motivated to fight the BitTorrent throttling. In an interview with Slyck he states: I’d like all users to be …
They are still finetuning the bit-shaping application, and apparently they had some problems configuring it the right way. Last month they were even blocking podcasts and songs from the Itunes music store. It’s ironic that the same ISP advertises with …
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