In case you’re wondering I have taken some measures to make my torrent experience a little safer/anonymous. In the process of trying tor for OS X I ran into some problems, it’s damn easy to setup for firefox but not so easy for Azureus–being the only OS X bittorrent app that allows proxy. Hopefully 
XTorrent will add the functionality soon. But with Azureus not working so great, I just really dont like the UI and the plugins aren’t too easy to mange either I gave up and knew I had to do something else. I had mentioned to Jared I would just setup Tor on Linux and run it as a VM through Parallels but instead I went with uTorrent on Windows and I’m surprised at how much I prefer uTorrent right now. Even in a VM it’s working great. Tor is noticeably slower but it works and I’m not in too big of a rush anymore.
The times I am in a rush it’s to get TV shows downloaded for a morning re-encode for my iPod I use Xtorrent. Reason I’m in a rush, Meredith and I watch TV shows for lunch at work and it’s nice to see those shows the day after rather then postpone them a few days.
Yeah, I switched over to uTorrent a while back too, but I’m having trouble remembering all the reasons why. I think I came across it because I was looking for speed tweaks, and found several sources that said you can get the most out of uTorrent.
Seems like they were right, because just tonight, I broke the 1000kB/s mark downloading a Linux distro. It was around 950 for most of the download, but still, that’s pretty decent.
Of course, speed will not be a factor if you’re going to go through a proxy network, since that overhead will certainly slow things down, but if your ISP is capping torrent traffic anyway it might not be too bad of a drop off in speed if you move to an uncapped proxy network (assuming your ISPs and others in the chain aren’t also capping Tor traffic).
There is a bit of a debate as to whether using networks like Tor for torrent downloads is “abusing” the networks, since the added traffic will make it slower for everyone else just trying to anonymize themselves, which is the primary purpose of most of those networks (at least Tor).
I haven’t tried torrenting through Tor, just because I don’t really download anything too questionable (no movies, etc.), and so I’m more interested in the highest speed I can achieve.
On a side note, if you are using an ISP that caps torrent traffic, I’d urge you to write to them and oppose their policy, pointing out that bittorrent is a legitimate way of efficiently distributing large files, and just because some people abuse it doesn’t mean that they should discriminate against all traffic of that nature. Of course, this will probably do no good, and I don’t expect anyone to actually do it, which is probably why net neutrality (and the internet as we know it today) will eventually be lost (at least in the US). Enjoy it while it lasts.
That was funny, write a letter to the cable company, hopefully you’re talking to someone else.
I don’t think they are capping any bittorrent traffic, if they are they aren’t doing as noticeable as they could.
I only use the Tor network for questionable downloads. The others, like TV are downloaded using Xtorrent which is pretty fast.
Yeah, I switched over to uTorrent a while back too, but I’m having trouble remembering all the reasons why. I think I came across it because I was looking for speed tweaks, and found several sources that said you can get the most out of uTorrent.
Seems like they were right, because just tonight, I broke the 1000kB/s mark downloading a Linux distro. It was around 950 for most of the download, but still, that’s pretty decent.
Of course, speed will not be a factor if you’re going to go through a proxy network, since that overhead will certainly slow things down, but if your ISP is capping torrent traffic anyway it might not be too bad of a drop off in speed if you move to an uncapped proxy network (assuming your ISPs and others in the chain aren’t also capping Tor traffic).
There is a bit of a debate as to whether using networks like Tor for torrent downloads is “abusing” the networks, since the added traffic will make it slower for everyone else just trying to anonymize themselves, which is the primary purpose of most of those networks (at least Tor).
I haven’t tried torrenting through Tor, just because I don’t really download anything too questionable (no movies, etc.), and so I’m more interested in the highest speed I can achieve.
On a side note, if you are using an ISP that caps torrent traffic, I’d urge you to write to them and oppose their policy, pointing out that bittorrent is a legitimate way of efficiently distributing large files, and just because some people abuse it doesn’t mean that they should discriminate against all traffic of that nature. Of course, this will probably do no good, and I don’t expect anyone to actually do it, which is probably why net neutrality (and the internet as we know it today) will eventually be lost (at least in the US). Enjoy it while it lasts.
That was funny, write a letter to the cable company, hopefully you’re talking to someone else.
I don’t think they are capping any bittorrent traffic, if they are they aren’t doing as noticeable as they could.
I only use the Tor network for questionable downloads. The others, like TV are downloaded using Xtorrent which is pretty fast.
One reason for my low comment count is that I don’t know much of the tech you have been reporting.
One reason for my low comment count is that I don't know much of the tech you have been reporting.
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