The REAL Fix For Comcast BitTorrent Throttling

I can see that my “Reset Connections” is increasing, is this a good thing? I am new to all this.

This does not work. Good try though.

Not workin for me also…Burlington NJ

I am also in the Washington DC area (actually just across the river in Arlington VA) and Comcast fluxes a lot. One minute I’m getting 200 – 300k on a download the next 20. I’m curious about the huge number of people I’m connected to under peers but with no data tx between – ie. they have 100% of the file and they’re not uploading a drop. Does it help to kick/ban these folks? I’ve also experienced ONLY on comcast an issue of turning on force start gets it going but then when you turn off force start it all drops to zero and stops. Anybody else had that issue?

I too followed all of these instructions. My problem is that all of my seeds now say “Error (invalid port)” next to them. The 2 I’m currently downloading are still downloading and uploading. The other 6 I’m trying to seed are still going slow or not at all. Is there something I did wrong? Was I supposed to remove all of my seeds and downloads before doing this?

Thanks, Wayne. This worked for me in Atlanta, GA. (Noticed throttling started just this week in my area).

Not working for me. My connection disconnects after a little while when I start to download.

i also get the invalid port error. ???

The real fix is you buy access to a foreign broadband VPN connection and everything you do is encrypted and unfiltered.

sites such as findnot.com offer these ‘windows’ of privacy and secure surfing. However the real problem is that most of the files you want to download are coming from ISP’s that are filtering or will be soon.
Fortunately hd space is going up much faster than the size of media and apps to fewer high bandwidth connection can effectively take the burdeon. Unfortunately the largest consumers of internet are being filtered the most, China and the US.

A good business may be providing cheap VPN from a country with no data regulations. Making laws such as Germans choice to enforce keeping logs around less effective.

German’s can buy access to VPNs in countries where that law cannot be enforced and all their traffic will be hidden.

You are putting all your traffic in some other potentiall smaller companies hands and you may be hidding it for a reason. so I’d pay the extra to help ensure the place is legit.

On the other the CIA could make a lot of money reslling this service and getting the side benefit of all your data, though in most cases I doubt that. You will want to review the service you choose.

A service that say, offers you to pay by international money order and gaurantees log removal is more likely to be a well run operations. I think it is more realistic to expect a well run place to keep logs for network analyzing for a short peroid. Saying you keep no logs might be a lie. How do your network running well without logs ?

Though, I am not VPN reseller expert nor have I any ISP experience. Nor have a walked in on a secret NSA spy room at my local telco provider.

I find it more or less impossible to know who to trust with certainty. You really are better off borrowing your neighbors or such especially doing shady stuff.

seems to me a distributed project such as freenet is a great idea. We call share bandwidth for the common goal of having highly anonymous traffic. Maybe even create some packet morphing technology to spoof the filters a bit.

It could be it’s own project or even integrated with a p2p. There are many many uses for a distributed online app. Utorrent and such could make their programs vaslty more versatile and more or less be creating an entire platform not just one app. They would also be securing the right to P2P which is important since it’s their products main use.

We would all basically serve as encyrupted proxies with some reasonable yet practical means to create complete plausable deniability. Such a program would be illegal to run since you provide free unregulated proxy in some countries technically, but then for the most part so is p2p.

I suggested it years ago but everyone said it would require too much overhead. I think it’s becoming more and more of a reasonable solution as bandwidth goes up and filtering becomes the obvious future. Even if we had more bandwidth, it would still be economic to filter the P2p users out. You know they will still want internet even if they can’t get P2P. So if all ISP’s conspire their are no other options. Therefore the solution is we claim some infrastructure as private.

The two main ways to do that are by making a secure network within the existing internet that keeps out snoopers. OR the best idea which is to move American’s over to a public wireless internet. This could be done privately where each person own’s their own wifi bridge. In some areas you might need and antenna and booster or even a professionally installed link. The cell network will be there soon, so the technology is by no means futuristic. A good WIFI can go miles when installed well and that’s without even being designed for this application in mind.

It works just like the old CB network where you bounce off your closest neighbors to get more range. In all reality there are fastly better ways that usnig WIFI if you designed it from the ground up.
The lower the MHZ in most cases the further the range. The 700 mhz as a wifi bridge spectrum would kick ass. The reason Verizon has better coverage in most areas is because they bought the lower MHZ way back when. Verizon runs 850 mhz in most places. Sprint for instance runs 1900 mhz, which is why their network has more dead spots on average.

Sooooo, we can all just stop paying basically for all out communication bills by making one time investments in these home wifi bridges. It’s entirely possible and practical, but co-existing could be tricky if major network sources refuse the new model. Places like MSN might be pissed that you were taking comcasts customers and refuse to be hosted. Since many major news companies are owned by companies that also own media distribution it could be a market wide trend to resist any new medium, but especially ones that offer so much.

You can see many telcos fighting cheap VOIP solutions. However making the device individually owned really eliminates a lot of their power. There is little to nothing they could do about it in the long run. Once enough people got this thing, the old ways would be dead and we could all just have free phone, free TV, free internet and whatever else you can think up to move across a wireless network.

In think in the end the bandwidth would be greater since the average wireless connection is way faster than cable internet. It should also make hosting costs go WAAY down. The only problem is the complexity of the routing, but it seems to me a wireless network like that is just easier and cheaper to maintain. Every 3-4 years we all buy new boxes and the network upgrades itself. No monopolistic companies needed to support an aging infrastructure.
Now there might be a reasonable limit to just how fast wireless can go, but laser internet will be on the way also and that should be just as fast as fiber. Sure super expensive but how long will it really take us to get faster than WIFI speeds to our house. Verizon’s FIOS is still slower than most WIFI connections. We could make some badass WIFI bridges compared to ones out today able to support tons of channels and traffic for probably little more than the SOHO ones today. Most of the price increase is artificial, just like Intel could really sell us their top of the line P4 for the price they sell the celeron, but that’s business right. Well I dunno, if we’d make products cheaper maybe more people would effectively benefit from them, increasing overall national productivity and intelligence.

Remember back in the day when we forced Ma’ Bell to provide telephones to everyone, not just those who could proovide it because it was an obvious public service that would make the entire country stronger.

Well many infrastructures are like that, and waiting on corporate profit margins is usually a big waste of time since they are ONLY interested in their profit, not things like national security or personal rights.
We’d probably still be wait for telephone service to some parts of the country had we not stepped in a regulated the market a little.

Same goes for internet. The US people need not put up with this. The solution is this case is NOT with boycotting comcast, though that won’t hurt, but I see all ISP’s doing this sooner or later so it’s probably the federal or state government we’ll need.

I only say state since they seem more likely to actually do things and pay attention to the peoples needs than the federal government lately.

So, how about that. ME for President. You liked Bush’s tax cut maybe you got 300 bucks or something. You’ll love this. Imagine not paying so damn much for communications. Imagine regulation kept energy prices down for decades for the GOP deregulated them and not energy companies have record high profits. Yet I don’t see this trickle down economy paying off to the working class who can barely afford to heat their homes they so industriously invested in for the last 20 years. People invested in big houses so now energy prices are high. People invested in big cars, not gas prices are high. Why can’t enough people see this coming and actually get of their asses.

I bet a coal powered car really wouldn’t be that bad.
We are on the verge of either an economic crisis or the electric revolution and American’s can’t figure out which way to go.

It’s kind of scary how many stupid people their are in this nation and that everyone of them has just as much of a right to vote as me even though I read and they just watch Fox News after World Wrestling Entertainment every night.

Do you think they changed their name because WWF was was the World Wildlife Foundation. That must have been embarassing on web searches, either way.

So, you know, we mostly chose to be slaves to the system because it’s less thinking. We have other options and in a land of supposed opportunity and supply and demand you’d think we’d have a bit more competition in the most expensive sectors since it’s obviously very profitable. Seems though when we do, they find a way to kill it.

Eliminating some of that control through media would be easy to do if we had more control over the infrastructure itself. Seing that it’s our contry and those wires are buried in state land. We can legislate and regulate this system to be whatever we want. We can lower communication costs, we can install public wifi and put cell phones and everything on it and have it cost almost nothing compared to what we pay now.

You idiots running out to buy HD have created this problem, stealing what little bandwidth we have so you can see the wrinkles in your favoirate actors face. The increase in bandwidth isn’t even remotely worth the quality. We should be streaming out divx or something efficient if we must suffer such low bandwidth. Nobody wants to upgrade the infrastructure and with the dollar dropping even less people will want to. That’s why it’s up to either individuals to piece together a privately own joint effort network of it’s up to us to mandate it through the government.

Either way, well managed will cost roughly the same. I’d prefer the government run system, but since governments change and people don’t vote you can’t ensure privacy, so in todays world a privately owned network makes sense. Making it have emergency communication potential would also be a great idea. This makes the US a very hard target for IT threats by diversifying our bandwidth distribution

I live in the Houston area, and this problem just started occurring for me about 3 or 4 days ago. My bandwidth wasn’t just being throttled, I was having my connection dropped twice a minute. Which means things like chat programs were impossible to use. I’ve applied the Level 5 settings to my Azureus 3.0.3.4 and have been monitoring my connection for the last 15 minutes and I haven’t been dropped yet. So it appears this solution is working for me. However, I haven’t really tried seeding yet, I’m just downloading (but before the settings, even just downloading got my connection dropped).

For me (in the Redmond, WA area), these settings have improved my download speed dramatically. However, like another poster, I cannot seem to get anyone to connect to me. So my sharing ratios are very low (.0001).

I didn’t understand your “2 mutually exclusive alternatives” statement. Could you clarify? There are two items that can be checked/unchecked, which gives four possible settings. Which two are valid/advisable?

Everett, WA – Followed Level 5 on Azureus OSX and Win2K boxes. Still zero upload. 🙁 . Get near 800kb up at network speed test sites. Netstat -s yields hundreds of RST packets per hour.
Perhaps I can control the dropping of reset packets via a [replacement] router with DDWRT on it? Or is Sandvine controlling the resets at both ends?

2 questions

1. when I type in the line you posted into the run box in windows, I get nothing. Is it in the cmd line box or the run box?

2. where do you adjust dht settings in vuze?

I think the real fix would be, rather than trying to get around their limiting tactics, is to let Comcast lose in court, let all bittorrent run completely free, watch the networks collapse, and rather than slow bittorrent, we will all have NO bittorrent and we can watch our $50 a month internet bills go to $250 a month to fund bigger internet pipes (which aren’t cheap) and help defray comcast’s legal fees too! Wouldn’t that be awesome???!!!

This is the problem with the “privatize everything and private interest is A OK” mentality that is in the US. You do realize that the connections we have here in the US are much slower than in the EU, for instance, where people run fiber optic straight into their homes, right?

Why? Well because it is not in private corps interest to spend anymore money than they have to, as you pointed out, whereas in the EU internet is regulated heavily by the government and the result has been consistently better and faster internet for the populace.

A significant portion of the EU population has 10mbps connections in their HOME. While we sit on antiquated technology even though prices go up, prices are dropping in the EU, while service and speed are consistently getting better. Now then, support Comcast and their moneygrab if you want, or realize that you have been sold on a BS version of capitalism in the US that allows this kind of thing to happen, fight against it, and get something better.

Thanks for shedding some light on this. I just finished and I’m still at 1.5 kbps. I have a history of randomly slow download, even ones on limewire that aren’t tracked, but I’m still unsure about whether I’m being tracked. They found a file I downloaded a year or so ago and sent me a warning. Do I have to check if the source is encrypted? I’m just afraid of getting terminated. Also, is there any definitive way to check if they’re picking it up?

I tried to download the .jar file from the given Azureus CVS page today but it kept timing out. Is there a problem with the site or the file?

Any ideas?

-Thanks!

I don’t know how this is working for you folks! I followed every step to the letter, and am not new to computers/torrents or anything, but since we got Comcast Cable I am getting 0kb/s download speed on everything torrent-related. Absolutely appalling. If they weren’t the only option other than shit DSL in the area you can bet I wouldn’t be using them, but… Can anyone help me get this working?

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