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Preferred client: Halite (Open source)
Best Practice: Encrypt all outgoing connections and prefer RC4 and Plaintext encryption for incoming connections.
Encryption still utilizes the same torrent ports (merely encrypts the packets and header), so if your ISP wants to throttle or actively shape traffic they most certainly can (and will).
Another option for increased anonymity, is to configure your BT client to use Tor and Privoxy (which I only use when ultra paranoid - due to the massive speed hit caused by hopping through multiple onion routers).
BTGuard: ULTRA fast pay-to-use proxy (designed specifically for BT). It completely insulates you from any form of identification w/o throttling your connection.
Best Practice: Encrypt all outgoing connections and prefer RC4 and Plaintext encryption for incoming connections.
Encryption still utilizes the same torrent ports (merely encrypts the packets and header), so if your ISP wants to throttle or actively shape traffic they most certainly can (and will).
Another option for increased anonymity, is to configure your BT client to use Tor and Privoxy (which I only use when ultra paranoid - due to the massive speed hit caused by hopping through multiple onion routers).
BTGuard: ULTRA fast pay-to-use proxy (designed specifically for BT). It completely insulates you from any form of identification w/o throttling your connection.
Optimize BitTorrent To Outwit Traffic Shaping ISPs
Even though many of them deny it, most ISPs actively engage in traffic shaping, bandwidth throttling, connection denial or some such tactic to keep the amount of bandwidth consumed by high traffic applications on their networks to a minimum. While this does often ensure better performance for everyone in the neighborhood, it can mean painfully slow transfer speeds for those dabbling in P2P -- legit or not.While there are valid arguments for and against shaping, we're not here to debate. We just want the fastest BitTorrent transfers The RC4 encryption offered by many popular BitTorrent clients today will obfuscate not only the header but the entire stream, which makes it considerably more difficult for an ISP to detect that you're using BitTorrent. Even if your ISP does not force you to enable encryption, you may be connecting to peers with ISPs that do.
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