Comments on: The REAL Fix For Comcast BitTorrent Throttling

By: kevin durant

kevin durant — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:25:01 +0000

This really works! Comcast was kicking my ass with this garbage. I did everything it said and now I’m downloading at about 400/kbs which is a hell of a lot better than zero!

thanks!

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:02:41 +0000

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!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:07:23 +0000

This worked for me today. It was a little challenge to get all the settings right, because the client’s interface has changed a bit since this was written (on version 4.2 now, now called Vuse). Otherwise, seeding would NOT happen with uTorrent today (was working fine two days ago), and today, seeds and download speeds went through the roof. So, thank you!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:47:34 +0000

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?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:15:57 +0000

THANKS SO MUCH!!! This actually worked for me. I am on a Vista computer with Comcast High Speed…and now I can download my shit. Thanks!

By: wtf julio

wtf julio — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:15:36 +0000

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.

By: n00pster

n00pster — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:01:06 +0000

I use private tracker files so no help there.
Has anyone tried using the default ports like ftp, telnet or http ports? I dont know where to change the default listening port for these applications before using them in bittorrent client. can some1 pls help?

Also since the other peers doesnt use the same port, they can detect this and hence this also might not work i guess. what do u think?

By: julio

julio — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:07:20 +0000

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???!!!

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:50:58 +0000

I’m told that this fix won’t work if you use Private Torrents. That’s what it says in AzureusWiki

By: michael

michael — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:26:59 +0000

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?