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 [email protected] wrote:
I figure I might as well try encrypted bittorrent
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