help your NTL torrents

00sully

"shhhhhh" keep it secret

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/

this has helped me somewhat anyway

mollser

Funny, i was one of the chief moaners about the torrents recently on NTL, but i'm going to be fair and give them a bit of credit here. :eek: The torrents are working much better these days - the shaping really does only seem to be for a couple of hours a day - I can live with that

speedy21

What time are you using it at?
Its 2am here and its just so slow
huge amount of seeders too

mollser

I'm not sure anymore, the only torrents i've been using the last week or so have been incredibly slow and unreliable. Will try one my reliable ones tonight, where you're almost guaranteed max speeds, and will report back...

Gran Hermano

Am having the same trouble myself.
The days of downloading torrents via NTL at 200kps+ are over and have
been been for several months for me.

I've tried the encryption and it seems to help but I havent seen anything
better than 80kps.

Anyone notice PeerGuardian blocking incoming traffic from NTL since you've
started using encryption?

AntiVirus

Torrents still run at max speed for me on NTL at any time of the day. Here's 2 tests I've just done.

Nick_oliveri

Ooo, such speeds...

Cabaal

Gran Hermano wrote:

Anyone notice PeerGuardian blocking incoming traffic from NTL since you've
started using encryption?

Take this as a warning people, any discussion of where to get copyright material is going to lead to a ban!

Just thought its worth warning people before it happens,

Oh and btw the fact your using PeerGuardian means you have something to hide

christophicus

I tried getting ubuntu there and was getting full speed.!!!

po0k

Cabaal wrote:

Oh and btw the fact your using PeerGuardian means you have something to hide

I'd dispute that, but I cba. For the benefit of others: it doesn't hide fock-all. It has other uses outside of keeping the MPAA out of your pocket.
It's a response to the tactics used by agencies hired by such organisations. It also allows you to block direct connections with known 'bad' hosts and networks.

I'd like to see this used, albeit then necessary for the ISP to check the content so as not to fall foul of content storage.
It's a simple enough thing to enable which would dramatically cut external bandwidth costs and improve performance for the users.

Drapper

encryption worked for me :-)