All Users: Please Enable Encryption!

[j0hn]

thats way off the mark
i have encryption enabled for the sake of others, as my isp does not traffic shape.
utorrent tells me if the person im connected to has encryption enabled. the majority of seeds/peers i connect to have encryption enabled.

those with enough sense to read up on protocol encryption have enabled it, as they will have read that even if they are not being throttled themselves, turning it on will let them download from throttled users, who otherwise they wouldnt be able to.

in short, enabling encryption wont slow u down. it can though, increase ur speeds, if ur throttled or not.

read that

[waterloo]

Yea, i enabled (not forced) encryption as soon as it was implemented in µtorrent even though my isp does not throttle p2p traffic. Speeds weren't affected at all.

[nizrulesall]

ive enabled it as well and havent noticed any detriment to my dl/ul speeds

[kg9689]

how do oyu enable encrytion in BitComet or should I update to uTorrent or Azureus?

[nizrulesall]

You should change to uTorrent 1.6 or Azureus

[Pr1nc3]

You should change to uTorrent 1.6 or Azureus

I agree.

Though consider this when choosing between Azureus and uTorrent: if your computer (windows) bulks out of memory (2 GB and up) go for Azureus, if not, your choice shall be uTorrent.

[aliEnRIK]

well ive done it ~ not really tested it as yet but if something major happens ill be letting yas know

[Invites_4_You]

I did it and haven't noticed anything at all.

[emanon]

So, is all traffic encrypted or just the header information?

If all traffic is encryptet i can't understand why speed is the same. If it same tech as on encrypted ftp then when enabling encryption of the data stream speed is reduced ALOT.

[j0hn]

if u read this thread, u'll see that pretty much everyone who has turned it on has noticed 100% no slowdown, and alot have found increases