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More and more ISP’s are limiting and throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question. And sometimes you won’t be able to connect at all!

The list of ISP’s that limit BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, here’s a list of ISP that are known to cause trouble for BitTorrent clients or P2P in general. And according to the BBC, the “bandwidth war” has begun.

So how to get back your full download speed? The answer lies in encrypting your torrent protocol. Encrypting your torrents will prevent throttling ISP’s from shaping your traffic.

What does encryption Do?

The RC4 encryption obfuscates not only the header but the entire stream. This means that it’s very hard for your ISP to detect that the traffic you are generating comes from BitTorrent.

Here is a tutorial on how to enable encryption in Azureus, uTorrent, and Bitcomet, the three most popular torrent clients.