How To Bypass Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling: the true way
October 22, 2007
I don’t know why people are constantly trying to come up with all these wacky ways to defeat Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent traffic. Almost ever single way out there eventually fails.
I’ll tell you this that I have Comcast and use BitTorrent, with no problem. Want to know how? Here is the simple way:
Set your BitTorrent client to use only port 80.
There now you can share all you’re movies and porn to your hearts content. I’ve been doing this since Comacast starting throttling traffic and I’ve never had a problem. So stop trying to be so ultra nerd and use this simple solution.
Happy Seeding! Digg This!
October 22, 2007 at 11:52 am
But what if Comcast shuts off port 80?
Oh, wait…….
October 22, 2007 at 12:44 pm
o_O
October 22, 2007 at 7:27 pm
As far as I can tell, I’ve not been affected by Comcast’s throttling. I typically set my BitTorrent clients to only connect to 15-20 people at a time, and I set my download speed limit to about 70KB/s max. I know most uber-geeks expect to be able to saturate their connection, though, so maybe my limit may be lower than Comcast’s throttle rate.
October 25, 2007 at 3:17 am
dude, you rock! worked for me like a charm.
October 25, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Thanks…. do me a favor and digg this up so other will know the way
October 26, 2007 at 10:11 am
nice, simple thought… but didn’t work for me
October 26, 2007 at 10:52 am
@jah_warrior28
Are you using utorrent? Make sure DHT is disabled. Some workarounds out there tell you to turn it on.
October 26, 2007 at 12:38 pm
DHT is disabled and encryption is enabled.
Anything else I should check?
October 27, 2007 at 12:28 am
@jah_warrior28,
got me. Are you sure that it isn’t just the line itself causing the problem? Go to speedtest.net and make sure that you connection is good.
November 4, 2007 at 9:22 am
Yes, it “somehow” worked for me, but the download speed
is still pretty low.
Also, how come some of the torrent got upload speed and some didn’t ?
Do you have any other tricks for the speed ? My current DL speed is less than half or a third of my previous DL speed…
Thanks !
November 19, 2007 at 1:37 pm
How do you set the BitTorrent client?
January 12, 2008 at 9:54 pm
use deluge dude!!!
January 16, 2008 at 8:36 am
VPN service as http://safevpn.net can be of a help to bypass torrent throttling
February 25, 2008 at 10:38 pm
This is amazing. I was running at 10kb/s until I switched to port 80, and guess what? Straight up to 148 kb/s! Thanks!
March 1, 2008 at 4:48 pm
This didn’t work. Comcast is sending a RST to the TCP session, it doesnt matter what port.
March 5, 2008 at 7:20 pm
doesn’t work your port 80
i tryed also the proxy thing
isn’t this kinda of illegal???
because i pay for a broadband connection that offers me mb speed for download
and now i can’t use it because i can’t download anything big
and what is the need for broadband if all u do is check your mail :D?
April 19, 2008 at 2:58 am
This doesn’t work with the new stuff they are doing. They are no longer just throttling bandwidth. They are now breaking your connection with peers when you are seeding torrents.
There is no way around this other than using VPN.
April 30, 2008 at 5:39 am
I’m a Comcast Tech support agent for Tier 1. I can tell you that Comcast is now blocking connections based on P2P protocols, not just bandwidth or port numbers, so changing port numbers will not work anymore. HTTP protocol on port 80 will still be fast, but any P@P protocols detected, even on port 80, will still be killed. Note: I don’t agree with this either, but I’m not at a high enough level to change anything at all about this.