WING LOON

Are you facing difficulty on a network where your BitTorrent download and upload speed is being throttled or your BitTorrent simply doesn’t work at all. My ISP has started to throttle the BitTorrent download speed few monts ago. Previously, I can get 100kB/s download speed. But, now I can only get 12kB/s download speed (the best maximum speed). Damn…its frustrating. No worries…there are lot of other technology that we can use it as a workaround. I had stumbled upon a personal blog of Michael Whalen showing how we can tunnel BitTorrent thru SSH. I have been using his solution to download all Linux ISOs happily.

You must have the following requirements: -

• An Internet connection at home
• A remote SSH server (with no BitTorrent throttle or filter)
• A Windows SSH terminal emulator (I am using PuTTY 0.60)
• A Windows BitTorrent client (I am using µTorrent 1.7.2 build 3458)

Let’s start. First, fire up your PuTTY. Enter your remote SSH server hostname or IP address in the “Host Name” field. Enter your preferred session name in the “Saved Sessions” field.

Next, go to Connection > SSH > Tunnels, and write your preferred port number in the “Source port” field (I am using 8888) and select the “Dynamic” radio button. Then, click the “Add” button.

Next, go back to Sessions, click the “Save” button to save your new session. Double click on your saved session name to make a connection to your remote SSH server.

Second, fire up your µTorrent. Click on the “Preferences” button. Go to Connection. In the “Proxy Server”, select “Sock4″ as the proxy server type, enter “localhost” in the proxy field and enter “8888″ in the port field. Next, select the “Use proxy server for peer-to-peer connections” checkbox.

Next, go to BitTorrent, in the “Protocol Encryption”, select the “Forced” in the outgoing field and select “Allow incoming legacy connections” checkbox. Then, click on the “OK” button to save the preferences.

Finally, you can start your BitTorrent download…without being throttled!!!