The Bit-Torrent protocol is one of the most popular ways of transferring data on the internet. However, many ISPs throttle traffic back because torrents eat up a ton of bandwidth. If your torrent downloads are coming in at 5KB/s or lower, it’s probable the ISP is artificially slowing down traffic. There is an easy way around ISP throttling, what you’ll need to do is enable encryption in one form or another – ie. header encryption, message stream encryption, etc. of the Bit-Torrent data stream. This masks the nature of the traffic, and in most situations prevents the ISP from knowing what it is.

Encryption is not a native feature of the Bit-Torrent protocol, so to enable it you’ll need a third party program like Utorrent. Once installed, load up the program and go to its configuration area. Encryption is usually located with the connection options, from there enable the form you find suitable (in this case, check “forced encryption), save, and restart the client. Your Bit-Torrent downloads will hopefully be much faster.