Arand, I doubt you will find anyone who wants to help you steal bandwidth from tor so you can abuse it by downloading torrents. You would be better to stick to a commercial service.
Regards, Arrakis > USING: > Tor & Privoxy & Vidalia bundle 0.1.1.26 > Windows XP Home > µTorrent > 3com firewall > HAPPENINGS: > I am using Tor behind a 3com firewall, in connection with µTorrent. > Before using Tor I -naturally, having not opened any ports on the > firewall- experienced low connection (up&down) rates in µTorrent. However, > after installing the Tor bundle and configuring µTorrent for use with the > Tor proxy server (as described at > http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#head-0d047b05e9b > 93c23cec9198550816a114012bde0), I suddenly experienced connection speeds > which would equal those, had I used a normal port forward on my firewall. > QUESTIONS: > Firstly, how does this work? > Secondly -on account of a port forward always being a security risk- Is > this a similar security risk? > And lastly, if it is indeed a security risk (no matter how small), does > this apply to other programs than BitTorrent clients, using the Tor proxy > server? > __________ > I first inquired with the Privoxy about this issue (presuming that it > was related to Privoxy) and I recieved the following response: >> --- Date: 2007-02-19 13:17 Sender: fabiankeil </users/fabiankeil/> --- >> Are you sure that your provider doesn't throttle BitTorrent traffic? >> By using Tor you prevent your ISP from knowing which services (other >> than Tor itself) you're using and this could explain why using Tor >> speeds up your BitTorrent traffic (it's no longer rate limited by your >> ISP). Privoxy itself is unlikely to have anything to do with it and I >> don't think port forwarding has anything to do with it either, but I'm >> not familiar with BitTorrent. The short answer to your last questions >> is "No", but as it has nothing to do with Privoxy you should checkout >> the Tor documentation for details and ask again on the or-talk mailing >> list if you have further questions. > I am fairly certain that my ISP is not the issue here, so I remain > puzzled... And I've so far not found any answers in the Tor documentation. > Anybody got something on this? > - Arand
