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.
… time. Essentially most ISPs use the very same reasons for throttling BitTorrent users on their network. Fair or not? “I managed my …
… of September 2010, Rogers customers began noticing severe throttling of downstream P2P and non-P2P traffic. It was clear that something …
… Of course it still leaves the door open for BitTorrent throttling, but so did the FCC proposal. The reality is that the Internet …
… infringements, either by taking technical measures such as throttling, or terminating accounts. As reported by ARN today, there are … said no matter which steps were taken, be they letters or throttling, AFACT would not be happy unless the measures ultimately ended in …
… a broad range of actions such as sending out letters, throttling customers’ connections, right through to suspending accounts. At …
In March the uTorrent team released the long-awaited version 2.0 of their popular BitTorrent client which introduced several significant changes. One of the novelties in the new uTorrent release was uTP, a new and improved implementation of the BitTorr …
… been developed is to make traffic shaping and BitTorrent throttling by ISPs obsolete. Unfortunately there has not been any feedback from …
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