Beating Bell Canada's throttling efforts

[dysonsphere]

Hi,

I have been using and loving Deluge for some time now. Recently I have had to switch to Bell Canada as my ISP. They throttle at "peak hours". My torrents cannot move faster than 30 kb/s. I believe they are using Sandvine technology.

Setting up the encryption on Deluge does not remedy the situation.

I have tried using Azureus/Vuze to encrypt the torrents and thier advice (following) seems to do the trick, hoever I am much more a fan of the Deluge experience than the bloated interface of Vuze.

Is there any way to achieve the same ends in Deluge:

(from Azureus Wiki)
Level 5

Note: This is level is available from Azureus 3.0.2.3_B05 onwards.

Level 5 is only intended for people who have problems with a specific traffic shaping method employed by sandvine traffic shaping hardware, see Bad ISPs if this applies to you. The premise of this method is to minimize the amount of unencrypted information leaked. To enable it select following settings:

1. Tools -> Options -> Connection -> Transport Encryption
* Enable require encryption
* Select RC4
* Disable both fallback checkboxes
2. Tools -> Options -> Tracker -> Client
* Enable Do not announce the listening port to the tracker
* Set the peer limit to a low figure, start with 1 or 2
* set the Minimum time between tracker announces to 900 for example
3. Adjust DHT settings (2 mutually exclusive alternatives):
* Disable the DHT:

Go to Tools -> Options -> Plugins -> Distributed DB and uncheck Enable the distributed database

* Try to get more peers via DHT:

Go to Tools -> Options -> Plugins -> Distributed Tracker and uncheck Only track normal torrents[...]

4. Try to seed a torrent you haven't seeded within the last few hours or so before applying these settings

[JohnnyC35]

also looking for RC4 encryption. tried out deluge again but still am getting limited.
*sob*
back to vuze

[johnnyg]

Deluge (or more specifically libtorrent) does use RC4 encryption.

However to force encryption:

1. Open up Preferences
2. Select Network
3. Under "Encryption", change both "Inbound" and "Outbound" to "Forced"
4. Change "Level" to "Full Stream"
5. Make sure "Encrypt entire stream" is selected

On that same page you can also disable things like DHT.

I should point out that the original post is quite old and I'm not sure if those techniques still work.

[JohnnyC35]

sadly that doesn't work, for me anyways. also tried qtorrent with no success, after resetting mdm, router, etc. damn you Bell Sympatico!

[JohnnyC35]

I was able to find a torrent program that has RC4 encryption, stops sandvine from interfering, and is not a total pig with memory. Lince. It's apparently based off of Vuze but it's not Java based. I have used it for the last few hours, and when usually my download limit would have been throttled it still hasn't. So it seems like all is well. So if anyone here needs an anti-sandvine torrent program they may want to go here: http://lincetorrent.sourceforge.net/ .