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Can Deluge prevent comcast from tracking torrents? If so then how? What settings do I need tweek? Is there a separate add-on that works with Deluge that increases encryption so that comcast cant track it?

thanks

In general, they are probably going to be able to tell what you are doing. You could try the usual things like switching to a non standard port, turning on encryption and setting the encryption to forced on. Your other option would be something like a VPN or seedbox.

would be great if the deluge can prevent this. Its becoming more and more of an issue.

Maybe use a VPN?

I'd suggest using a VPN. Nothing short of encrypting your torrent traffic and routing it through a safe (or as safe as you can get) node will prevent Comcast from sniffing your traffic. Here's why:

* Without VPN, your IP will always be visible in the swarm: That's how you find peers, and how peers find you. By going through a VPN, your IP will be some anon IP, possibly not even in your country. Enabling protocol encryption doesn't change that.

* You could try using a SOCKS5 proxy, Deluge does support that. In that case, the IP of the socks proxy appears in the swarm list. Combined with the obfuscation provided by protocol encryption it ought to be reasonably secure. As long as you don't ADD torrents via your unencrypted connection... because in that case, you're still screwed.

* VPNs are dirt cheap, at maybe $5/month. And they offer you the ability to more or less anonymize your _entire_ traffic if you want. Look around, there's many pages with excellent comparisons.

Bottom line: These days using a VPN is almost a necessary self defense, even if you're not doing anything illegal at all.