Thursday, July 30, 2009

Can I download a torrent file to my webserver, as my ISP shapes my torrent downloads?

As my Internet connection is shaped, my torrent downloads are very slow, but I have priority for HTTP downloads, so what I would like to do is, download the torrent file to my webspace, then once it has downloaded, download it as a normal file using HTTP transfer as I can do that at full speed. I know a while a go you could do this with some other file formats

Can I download a torrent file to my webserver, as my ISP shapes my torrent downloads?
You don't need to do that..


use uTorrent and enable the protocol encryption


Your ISP will not recognize it as torrent and you should get the full speed(depends on the torrent file itself of course)





one more thing, if you use a router you should open a port for the torrent..
Reply:So you want to download it twice? I think you CAN use BT over port 80 (the HTTP port) but I doubt that works any better and that's not what you're asking anyway.





If you want to download the torrent to your webserver you need access to it. Your webserver also has to be on a different ISP than the one you have.





If you're on a Shared hosting solution it's probably against the Terms of Service to host copyrighted material... so you'd probably lose your account as the host would be monitoring your bandwidth usage, too.





Also if you get caught you're screwed.


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