Airtel Broadband blocking torrents and file sharing services

[Sushubh]

i got relatively better speeds on Vuze compared to uTorrent on my connection with some public torrents. the speed still sucked... and it went up and down constantly.

 

[abchopra2010]

I have been gettings good speeds after 9pm. Wtf do they want?

 

[Sushubh]

steal your soul.

 

[Sushubh]

can folks here test out vuze? i am getting much better results with it compared to uTorrent.

 

[dovahkiin]

can folks here test out vuze? i am getting much better results with it compared to uTorrent.

the reason is utp, in utorrent from version 2 onward utp is on by default, utp prefers only utp peers, it has to be turned off from advanced settings, only clients which support utp currently are Utorrent and ktorrent.

many guys don't know this , but by having utp on they only peer with clients on utp hence low speeds since you are only mostly peering with ut 2 and with others on a low priority. that said vuze is a buggy client and sends bad data to tracker but yeah it is ok for public ones.

i can't remember the name but there is a Chinese BT client which masks BT as http and passes all shaping but again is banned on private sites but will work on public sites .

 

[Sushubh]

but that should not cause much problems because majority of folks seems to be using uTorrent anyways?

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Vuze does seem to prefer other Vuze users while downloading.

 

[Sid]

i can't remember the name but there is a Chinese BT client which masks BT as http and passes all shaping but again is banned on private sites but will work on public sites .

Is it thunder??

BTW i think airtel is doing this to customers who are heavy downloaders/uploaders , just my thought

 

[dovahkiin]

yeah mostly , but it is bad on small private sites where there are guys mostly on seedboxes and servers running rtorrent and deluge , and most initial and pro uploaders use rtorrent and if on windows then UT 1.8.5 or 1.8.2 , so if you are on UT 2 onwards you really don't download from them or neither they can upload too you. by turning it off you will see a huge difference and if peers are huge then mostly it does not make any difference since the amount of guys on public sites with UT 2 and utp on is huge.

it is up to you you can turn it off by going to advanced setting and set bt.transp_disposition to 5 and then go to Options > Preferences > BitTorrent and uncheck Enable Bandwidth Management.

utp is the protocol of future , it is unfortunate that many devs have not implemented it all BT clients yet.


@sid_21m yeah i think it is called something like that but finding a English version of it is real tough.

 

[Deleted member 13033]

Is it thunder??

BTW i think airtel is doing this to customers who are heavy downloaders/uploaders , just my thought

na its fr most users...

 

[ornelansmend]

As we all know, P2P speed in India is being throttled by Airtel. For those who cannot afford VPN or Torrentflux hosting, below are the alternative Bittorrent client that can be used to bypass traffic shaping by Airtel. All these are working perfectly fine for me on most sites :

1. Xunlei a.k.a. Thunder : Download it here : Thunder5.8.13.699.zip
(30% Chinese ) (Super Stable) This is a port and is completely adfree.

2. Deluge : Download from here : http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/ (Unstable but working fine for me )

3. Halite: https://sourceforge.net/projects/halite/ (Unstable but working fine for me )

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