All Users: Please Enable Encryption!

**forteagle** · 04-13-2006, 11:25 AM

i use encryption and have no speed has not decreased

**obs0lete** · 04-16-2006, 04:20 PM

I have encryption enabled and have never notice any speed differences...

**limpingjaret** · 04-17-2006, 01:44 AM

If you find that your bittorrent downloads are rather sluggish, your ISP may well be throttling your bittorrent traffic, this is not port filtering but rather packet filtering...here is a list of confirmed bitorrent throttlers

http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Bad_ISPs

With so many throttlers and many more that are slated soon to follow in the US, torrents are getting the bad end of the stick...thankfully there is something everyone can do to prevent this and it's built right into azureus

This method encrypts the bitorrent packets and renders it very hard if not impossible for ISP's to decipher

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encry...rrent-traffic/

**horia** · 04-17-2006, 06:13 AM

this sticky has the same topic so this is kind of a duble thing...

**thewizeard** · 04-17-2006, 06:17 AM

..and encryption slows things down...

**RealitY** · 04-17-2006, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by thewizeard

..and encryption slows things down...

In this case its minimal if any and if you make more connections with it than speeds may be faster actually...

**j0hn** · 04-17-2006, 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by thewizeard

..and encryption slows things down...

ive been using encryption on µtorrent 1.5 since they released it, about 6 weeks ago.
i havent noticed even the slightest difference in my speeds, at all.
i max'd out my connection before, and after enabling encryption.

it can actually speed up ur downloads/uploads in some cases, as users who ARE throttled by their isp, who also have encryption on, will then be able to seed/leech to u, when they couldnt without the encryption.

encryption can slow ur transfer rates slightly (nothing u would notice, at all) but for most ppl it wont, or if it does, they dont notice.