Say goodbye to high speed downloads when using BitTorrent! A growing number of ISPs is starting to employ traffic shaping tactics in order to limit or throttle BitTorrent speeds. Traffic shaping is the practise of prioritizing certain internet traffic over other. Traffic shaping is not new and it does have its uses, but in this case I cannot think of any good reason why us customers would want slower BitTorrent speeds.

No worries.. There is a simple answer to the BitTorrent throttling question: encrypt BitTorrent traffic. Here’s how to get it done using uTorrent:

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1. Go to Options -> Preferences…

2. Select BitTorrent in the left menu

3. Under Protocol Encryption -> choose Enabled

If your download speeds do not increase when you choose Enabled, choose Forced. I recommend you tick the “Allow incoming legacy connections” checkbox. This allows non encrypted clients to connect to you. When exchanging data with non encrypted clients you will still be affected by BitTorrent throttling, but any exchange is better than none. Keep it unchecked if you get faster download speeds without it.

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