Bittorrent shaping even with encryption
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Posted by Seguros Catatumbo on November 12, 2006, 9:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi, i want to know if this is possible. Our isp monitors our bandwidth use, and if one exceeds 7GB in a month, they change your subnet to a 200.8.x.x/23 Bittorrent doesn't work, when it kind of works speed is less than 1kb/s, and connections get reset randomly, bringing irc, msn and java chats down. However, http downloads work at full speed. My question is, how do they know i am using bittorrent, if i am using encryption? Are they just looking for HTTP headers, and failing to find them, think i am using torrents? | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Gene S. Berkowitz on November 13, 2006, 12:15 am
Please log in for more thread options seguroscatatumbo@gmail.com says... Because Bittorrent uses other ports besides port 80, the default for http. Encryption only covers the payload of a packet, not its source, destination, and other useful details. If you want more bandwidth, pay for it. --Gene | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Seguros Catatumbo on November 13, 2006, 7:50 pm
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> If you want more bandwidth, pay for it.
I'm paying for an "unlimited" plan. There is no mention even in the small letter that if i exceed certaint amount, i will be capped. In countries like yours, you would be able to sue. In countries like mine, you are stuck. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by BR on November 13, 2006, 10:23 pm
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On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:50:15 -0800, Seguros Catatumbo wrote: >> If you want more bandwidth, pay for it.
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> I'm paying for an "unlimited" plan. There is no mention even in the > small letter that if i exceed certaint amount, i will be capped. > > In countries like yours, you would be able to sue. In countries like > mine, you are stuck. Fortunately your country doesn't have a different definition of "capped". | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Quaoar on November 13, 2006, 7:48 pm
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Seguros Catatumbo wrote: > Hi, i want to know if this is possible.
> > Our isp monitors our bandwidth use, and if one exceeds 7GB in a month, > they change your subnet to a 200.8.x.x/23 > > Bittorrent doesn't work, when it kind of works speed is less than > 1kb/s, and connections get reset randomly, bringing irc, msn and java > chats down. > > However, http downloads work at full speed. > > My question is, how do they know i am using bittorrent, if i am using > encryption? Are they just looking for HTTP headers, and failing to find > them, think i am using torrents? > From whatever BT client you use, change the default port from 6881 to some arbitrary port like 16721. Then, enable encrypted downloads only. This might help. Q | |||||||||||||||||||
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> Our isp monitors our bandwidth use, and if one exceeds 7GB in a month,
> they change your subnet to a 200.8.x.x/23
>
> Bittorrent doesn't work, when it kind of works speed is less than
> 1kb/s, and connections get reset randomly, bringing irc, msn and java
> chats down.
>
> However, http downloads work at full speed.
>
> My question is, how do they know i am using bittorrent, if i am using
> encryption? Are they just looking for HTTP headers, and failing to find
> them, think i am using torrents?