June 30, 2008, 8:39 pm
Many lovers of PeerGuardian are out there, and some just happen to use linux. Luckily we have bit torrent clients that support PeerGuardian blocklists directly in the client, rather than affecting our entire internet connection. This is a rather simple prodcedure in both cases of Ktorrent and Deluge.
Note: Blocklists are not a fool proof protection and can come with their own problems. Please read up on the effectiveness of blocklists. That being said, every little bit helps.
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March 5, 2008, 3:26 am
More and more ISP’s are limiting throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question.
The list of ISP’s that limit BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, and according to the BBC, the ‘bandwidth war’ has begun.
Are you not sure if your traffic is being throttled Check the list of bad ISP’s.
But there is a solution. Encrypting your torrents will prevent throttling ISP’s from shaping your traffic. I will explain how to enable encryption in Azureus, ktorrent, Deluge the three most popular torrent clients in Linux.
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