On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:09:09 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> Can anyone tell me what the advantages are for using this encryption, besides > the obvious (easily circumvented) anonymizer ones? In a lot of cases, ISP's have been throttling bittorrent traffic by reading the packet headers. If they can't read those...well ;) > Enabling encryption speeds-down my downloads dramatically, so where's the > benefit? Make sure you're not setting it so that you will *only* connect to other peers who *also* have encryption enabled. This of course compromises the privacy aspect somewhat, but it won't limit the number of peers you can connect to, and therefore should not affect your download speeds. The bad news is (maybe, I don't know), a couple of times lately I've found my bittorrent client firewalled from outside my router. Don't know how they would do that, esp if I'm using a non-standard port (they can't block *all* the ports! LOL!), but I'm suspicious. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bender: A woman like that you gotta romance first! ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
