Getting around ISP bittorrent traffic shaping

[Leo Mauler]

Traffic shaping has been around for awhile, and there
are a few ways that have been developed to get around
it with bittorrent.  Encryption is one of them.  TWC
hasn't been traffic shaping (so you might want to
switch to them), but I checked the box for RC4
encryption in Azureus awhile back to try it out, and
Azureus encryption doesn't do much of anything to
performance.  If traffic shaping is occurring, then
with Azureus you should force anyone connecting to you
to use RC4 encryption and don't allow unencrypted
connections.

ISPs can sometimes block encryption, so if that
happens you can tell your bittorrent client to be
connectable through a different port than the standard
6881 to 6889 port range usually taken by bittorrent. 
That range is usually nailed shut by a traffic shaping
ISP.

If you aren't getting your phone service through your
broadband Internet provider, set your bittorrent
client to use the VoIP port 1720, as usually the VoIP
port is left wide open by the ISP.  This is especially
true of the ISPs which bundle Internet phone service.

Ports which get a lot of UDP traffic typically get
left open as well.  This includes gaming ports (the
Counter Strike port 27015 works well), and streaming
ports such as the Yahoo Music Streaming port 1755 and
the Yahoo Messenger Video Webcam port 5100.

If you really get desperate there's always port 80,
the HTTP port.  Traffic shaping regular web browser
traffic would kill an ISP completely.

--- feba thatl <febaen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I figure I might as well try encrypted 
> bittorrent


       
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