On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:37, JoeHill wrote: > 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.
That was it. That caused the slowness. > > 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. Always good to be suspicious. :-) -- Good luck, HarM ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
