Patrick Peyre has used BitTorrent for years and knows exactly what he is talking about.
At this time more and more folks are participating in the Cyberspace phenomenon known as file sharing, and it has build an absolutely new way to enjoy music. But some Internet providers don't enjoy it at all, since using these systems creates monstrous masses of traffic that stream through their lines, which of course brings into being identically massive costs for them.
In consequence, file sharers all over the land experience something very unpleasant with their Providers - BitTorrent downloads are being slowed down artificially, making it hardly possible to get a presentable speed.
So what can you do against it? Well basically you should check your ISP BitTorrent policy - maybe you can find it in their ToS or by calling their hotline and asking for possible ISP BitTorrent restrictions.
If you can't find any restrictions this doesn't mandatory mean everything is Cool with your Internet connection, as most Providers are in fact to embarrassed to admit they are investigating the data you send out to other people. So you have to test out yourself: Simply googling for your Providers name and "BitTorrent throttling" or "ISP BitTorrent" may give you the info you need.
In case you do not find anything but still think your ISP BitTorrent policy is what is causing you slow downloads, you should give the Glasnost test a try, a service developed by the Max Planck Institute. You can find a link to it on our site (see below).
For one you could simply change your Provider, but that could take some time and you never know if your new one may start controlling your data too.
There are however several countersteps that are relatively easy to implement.
Nearly every recent BitTorrent client offers a feature created uniquely to bypass ISP BitTorrent throttling, so called user-to-user torrent encryption. What it does is to simply encrypt the data transferred between you and your peers so that it is absolutely impossible for your ISP to see that you are transfering files via Torrent with them. Note nonetheless that this only works with folks that have also activated the encryption feature, and that it has nothing to do with making you incognito!
Moreover if you are using the standard port 6881 you should consider changing to a new, random one.
It categorically doesn't matter which one as long as you don't forget to set-up proper port forwarding in order to conserve the potential for other users to establish a connection with you.
Another counterstep against ISP BitTorrent throttling that you should take is to subscribe to a VPN or anonymizing service that will not only trick out any of your Internet provider's traffic shaping attempts, but will also keep anyone from scanning the data that you transmit over your connection.
I hope this information helped you out!
For more information on how to bypass your ISP BitTorrent restrictions, improve your speed and stay completely undetected and anonymous visit our website at http://torrent-review.com/?page_id=7
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