I very rarely write about bittorrent because for the past few months I’ve only been getting my stuff from RapidShare file hosting. As you know, RapidShare has a storage capacity of several petabytes (a petabyte is a million gigabytes) of files and you could almost everything there. I have a RapidShare Premium account and I used to get maximum download speed. However, for the past few weeks, the maximum download speed that I’ve been getting has been pretty bad, and now they’ve reduced the download limit from 10 gigabyte a day to 80 gigabyte a month. That’s like only 2.66gb of download per day! I have a 1.5mbps download speed and according to calculation, I can download as much as 12GB per day. RapidShare system is getting really absurd so I am turning to BitTorrent.
I downloaded and installed the latest version of uTorrent v1.8.1, got a torrent file from IP Torrents with 1051 seeders and only 34 leechers. With that numbers, I should be downloading at maximum speed but I am only getting less than 3kbps!
Double checked uTorrent settings and applied half connections limit patch, still no improvement. All this while I knew that my ISP TM Net Streamyx has been throttling P2P connections and I guess I’m their victim too. They claim to have a hardware to detect and throttle certain kinds of traffic such as p2p (for e.g. BitTorrent) in an effort to save their bandwidth that we have rightfully paid for. After spending hours trying to find out how to bypass bittorrent throttling, I found a simple solution.
Well the simplest way is to use VPN. VPN establishes an encrypted connection behind SSL security to encrypt BitTorrent and taking out traffic shapers. Last year I’ve already mentioned a few VPN companies such as XLCore, IdealVPN, HostCK and SecureIX but they’ve all closed down, leaving only BolehVPN that is capable to unthrottle your P2P connections. Currently BolehVPN has a total 14 servers located at Luxembourg, Sweden, United States and United Kingdom for you to choose from. If you want to watch online TV from Veoh or Hulu, simply connect to the US VPN.
Don’t look down on BolehVPN because the fact that they started operating since March 2007 until today already prove that they really “boleh” (Boleh means Can). I signed up for a 60 days VPN account to test it out and here’s a video showing how fast it hits my maximum download speed through BolehVPN. (This is my first attempt in making a video presentation, promise that it’ll be much better next time :P )
Another factor that contributes to the speed of bittorrent downloading is the amount of seeders and leechers. Some public trackers offers horrible amount of seeders which would make your download really slow. To solve this problem, BolehVPN provides access to a very popular private tracker (IPTorrents) with free leech! That means you can download without maintaining a good 1:1 ratio (although it’d be nice that you upload as well).
Other than providing VPN service, BolehVPN is also one of the very few providers of game servers in Malaysia. We’re actually in the midst of configuring the first ZombieMod server in Malaysia. Reason why I wanted a ZombieMod server hosted in Malaysia is because the routing done by our ISP TM Net is really bad and I get like 200-300 ping when playing CSS on servers overseas. If you want to check it out, here’s the IP and Port: 202.71.97.88:25555
Back to VPN, I have a US VPN account from Witopia that costs $39.99 per year but the connection is pretty slow and Veoh has blocked the IP saying “Veoh is no longer available in Anonymous Proxy”. I’ve also tested 1 month China VPN from BCRChina and it’s even worse as a lot of pages couldn’t load. So for a mere RM1 (US$0.25) a day at BolehVPN, you can download from BitTorrent with maximum full speed without being throttled and also watch online TV from Veoh, Hulu and etc by connecting to their VPN located in US (You have 14 VPN servers to choose from). A normal pirated DVD cost RM5 and Blu-Ray at RM12, I may as well spend the money on BolehVPN to have freedom in downloading whatever I want using P2P.
As part of the Christmas giveaway, I will be giving out 3 BolehVPN accounts valid for 125 days to 3 Malaysians. You must be subscribed to this website’s newsletter via FeedBurner or Feedblitz and then leave a comment. First 3 Malaysians that leaves a comment will get it. Readers from other country, please don’t be despair because I assure you that I have more giveaways coming very soon.
You can give BolehVPN a try if you’re a heavy P2P downloader that’s being throttled by your ISP. Just so you know, I gain nothing whether you subscribe to BolehVPN or not. I am just sharing with you based on my experience with BolehVPN.
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hi can i have one vpn account please? thanks
Can i have one?
Please..
is it true ? if u please send me free account , let me try some trial ver so i can find by my self n if it really work i will get it a.s.a.p …
i heard it work just want to see by my self or just a word-)
they are all liar now. They are restrict network content. Read here, forum.lowyat.net/topic/1507300 . we are now really facing those problems. No freedom in multimedia… unlimited access just chaos. They are all started to throttle content such as p2p, mkv, avi, streaming. we pay for the service & they are not admit their promise. The network service providers are taking a couple of steps back. Issue brought up by thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/8/focus/16811744&sec=focus a few years ago. Now, it does happen. TMnut (net) is the big sucks.
Hi Raymond, everyone is annoyed in some of their coroom mates or coworkers thats been hogging on their internet connection by downloading a lot using torrents and i have the same problem too since i manage the internet connection in our boarding house. Is it possible to block all ports that torrent clients uses except the port for internet explorer? If possible can you give me the port range to block? Anyway we are only using router in our Network since we are all using laptops.
Looking forward for your help.
Thanks
Hey Raymond, i strongly believe that you can assist me because am sure you are an expert in this, am not using it for p2p or whatever download but just want to stay secure online and also able to watch hulu.com
looking forward for ur help
Please can any one help me here on how to make use of this stuff because i paid for three days trial and when i foolowed the instruction to download, after that the files remain empty in my destop, what could be the cause lol.
Hello raymond can you give me a free account?
Greets from holland
Maybe you can share the account with me…. :D
Try use freakVPN.. it also can unthrottled p2p …
Thanks for the info on this VPN I\’m considering giving it a try.
I live in the UK and ISP choking bittorrent traffic over here is getting beyond a joke.
pls help me raymon i need bolehvpn account…..my download too slow……….
Raymond, you are the Wizzz i ussualy download torrents with uTorrent
and i would really like to try BolehVPN out ;)
Romano
I hope i can get a account
anywayz, thank you for sharing this info
and keep up the work ;)
can i have one?
please..
tnx raymond
Please send BolehVPN account to me.
Thanks,
Edo
ala…nak jugak…boleh la…bolehvpn… :-)
this torrent info is awsome .. u are the best blogger in this world. always live up expectations. u deliver most correct, clear tech info via blog . u provide info never heard with varied topics … almost many… e.g. from nero, torrent, bolehvpn and so many i can’t list.. u give best free soft to readers .. .u rock … i hope u keep up this…. thanks …..
ok i need boleh vpn account giveaway if u want to give me one of the giveways ……… thanks again….
hey raymond may i please have one 2 cuz i get slow internet download speed 2 i dont no why. please give one 2 me
Although i know i wont get one, I juz wanna say, “what a chicken blog this is!” I’ll wait for da next giveaway. At the current time, guess i hv to stick wit da slo mo donwload.. Thx Raymond for da great blog! – Merry christmas.
i want to .. tnx raymond for this such lovely freebies :]] more powers on you and GODBLESS (+)
Haha SADLY its too late for now to get a bolehvpn.
Hope ill get it for my X’mas…
Is there other VPN around?
Norton Antivirus 2009 trial ran well on my PC. Nice GUI too. I’d love to get a license for it, and especially for the Internet Suite. Thanks.
I have subscribed for the newsletter as per your advice. Can you please BolehVPN account to me please.
Thanks,
Rahul V M
hi raymond, reading ur articles helped me a lot so I registered myself to your blog and believe me this is the 1st time writing to an article.
I am interested in either Kapersky Internet Security 2009 or BolehVPN.
Merry Christmas – Happy & Prosperous New Year
I would love the free license for Bloeh please Raymond. Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
I am interested in Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
i want BolehVPN for my Christmas Giveaway…
i wud really love 1 of the license XD thx 1k ton of thx 2 u raymond~may God Bless you
hi raymond, i’ve been reading ur articles for more than half a year already, and this articles are great! this is the 1st time writing to an article. those givaways are simply generous of u~~i love ur blog!
i like to have this one…its gonna be so helpful for me especially im almost always downloading videos thru torrents…..x3
you know since i subscribed in your blog, i was always amazed of how you helped us make our computer life easier.
tnx for everything and more power
thanks ray for this post. hope i get lucky this time with ur christmas giveaway for boleh vpn
anyways thanks for a job well done
Raymond pls give me one…. Tnx
Hi..raymond..i come frm Sibu,sarawak…
Not only you…i think all the malaysian except from rural area facing this probelm..Because of it..i quit frm using bitcomet,utorrent,emule or other p2p software..Not only vpn can bypass P2P Throttling,a software called thunder can be used…i alr test it..the download speed was awesome..believe me….
Thunder 5 :
uploaded.to/?id=18mg6m
Thunder ENG language pack(juz put in the language file):
mediafire.com/?sharekey=1aa8f9d82df1a49ed2db6fb9a8902bda
By the way,not only bolehvpn..there are plenty of vpn provider available..u all can check it in the lowyat forum.
link:forum.lowyat.net/ServicesNoticeboard
Happy Chirtmas and thanks for the sharing
Usman: just drop us an e-mail (listed on our site) and we’ll extend to you a 1 day free trial for you to test if it works or not :D
I believe we have one UAE customer.
Hi Reymond.
Your posts are realy awasome. I am facing the same problem in UAE. Is there any way to get the maximum downloading speed from UTORRENT in UAE?
Everyone can use any client, utorrent, bitcomet, xunlei or e-mule or any other p2p clients and tmnet will trickle your traffic. Maxis totally blocked all p2p trackers but will not block actual p2p traffic once you can get to the trackers.
You still need VPN or encrypted tunnel to bypass maxis or tmnet throttled mechanism. Xunlei apparently works for some torrents only and cause more headache to average users.
VPN as offerred by bolehVPN is the Bypass Streamyx Throttle For Dummies solution. Takes 5 minutes to setup and if you are more dummy than average dummies, then the bolehVPN support team a.k.a reuben and sometimes his partner and the large community will guide you all the way.
There\’s not much difference in the solution given by other Malaysian LYN VPN providers EXCEPT bolehVPN is the only one with enough experience and resources to make your p2p journey as enjoyable as possible. Boleh team spend hours everyday to make sure that all connections are smooth and they even escalates connectivity to TM and other internet providers for better routing.
Testimonials of more than 1000 active users / subscribers and half of those has been a loyal customers for more than a year.
Raymond, thanks for posting this in your blog.
i have about 30 bitorrent private trackers which are given thru invites only . they all have maximunm downloads only you have to keep ratio 1:1
i will give some names
torrentleech,revelution,czone and more
Afaik Thunder doesn’t work for everyone. I tested it out along with Tuotu and Deluge. Some people have reported success on it esp with Chinese based torrents.
Furthermore Thunder/Xunlei is not allowed on private trackers so there are some drawbacks there.
hi tony…it Chinese, cannot understand .. any english.
Actually you don\\\\\\\’t need to use VPN to get maximum download speed. All you need to do is use the right p2p client software – Thunder. The official website is xunlei.com but it is recommended to use the patched version to remove the unwanted advertisements and for better performance. There are a lot of patched version out there but the one I always use is \\\\\\\’Ayu\\\\\\\’ version which is working fine:
Look for download links at category \\\\\\\’迅雷5.7.6.426Ayu去广告免安装精简版(终极收藏版) \\\\\\\’
Cool man..this really rocks..and i think their trial subscription fee is reasonable..Gonna try as well..Thx for da great info RAy..
I want this! hehe
wah.. it just a few hours the post get many response.. i do agree this is very good article and honestly i am looking the alternative way to speedup torrent … the answer is your post… Boleh VPN. I’m not the faster drop comment , but i was really thankful to know boleh VPN… yeza… Thanks Raymond
BolehVPN is the best VPN, customer service is the best I’ve encountered.
BolehVPN also has a US based VPN fyi.
Another provider which i am with is there as well. Bolehvpn was rather good but i decided to try out this provider who provides US based vpn and i would say, it’s good too. Videos on veoh and youtube loads much more faster than on my normal slowmyx connection. Torrents works just as fast maxing out my 2mbit connection.
If anyone wants their link , it’s here
forum.lowyat.net/topic/814411
Do tell the provider you came from this blog, maybe he’d give you some discount :P
can bolehVPN boost up rapidshare download
Nice nice. Going to try it if XunLei is not working fast enough for me.
Long time reader, first time poster, maybe this would help even more?
Is Your BitTorrent Throttled? Try µTorrent 1.9
As first reported by DSLReports, subscribers of Comcast, Cox, Bell Sympatico or other unpopular BitTorrent throttlers & sandviners may now have an alternative solution with µTorrent’s new alpha version 1.9. Peer-to-peer communications have traditionally used TCP, including BitTorrent trackers, whereby ISPs can quite easily \”see\” what type of traffic is being forwarded. While still in its infancy stages of development, µTorrent v1.9 (current build 13582) includes uTP, which is a variant of UDP (billed as UDP torrenting or micro transport protocol). uTP is an entirely different protocol (transport layer) than TCP that doesn’t require handshaking, and is thus much harder – if not impossible – to throttle.
uTP, simply stated, lays BitTorrent over UDP and has been in the works for some time. Its development was not directly designed to prevent sandvining or TCP RST packet attacks; however, it turns out to be a successful side effect – even if unintentional.
More here and here:
Also: Fight Throttling: Auto-Restart uTorrent With Random Ports
Raymond,
I enjoyed reading your blog and i’m eagerly waiting for the new tips/trick from you.
As for the downloading using bittorent. I’m suggesting you use this Mod Bittorrent which can be downloaded at this website:
Details
JUst use this portable Bittorrent and you can your smile downloading at 50-100 kbps or even more. (Depend on the leecher/seeder).
Very interesting post !! Icant wait to test it out..
Keep it coming
If you are able to get maximum speed at speedtest.net but can’t on a “well” seeded torrent, then you’re throttled.
Thank you
Thanks a million ray, didn\\\’t even know i got it till i open my email this morning :)
Raymond, please reply to my comment #46
I always thinking Raymond is from USA or other Western country. Anyway Streamyx always give the shittest speed, it is really annoyed that when you can’t finish downloading a 200mb file after 8 hours by using bittorent.
Srew Tmnet :)
@Raymond
megaupload.com netload.in FTW
Great.thanks so much.
For alternative, you can try relakks.com , they giving out 1 month free. The promotion has been there for a month now and still haven’t taken down, so register for 1 month free now :D. I getting full speed from relakks for torrent and for browsing some certain website is a lot faster than my Streamyx can do.
Actually speed of torrents download depends upon no of seeds to peers ratio.i suggest u people to use opera browser as ur bittorrent client as you can download bittorrent just like any other download and surf at the same time try it
hey raymound !
i want one thank you!
hi ray, hassan has a same question as iam
How do we tell whether our ISP is throttling P2P traffic?
thanks for the tip ray :)
Thanks Raymond..
Because of your blog, I gain more knowledge about computer & internet usage..
Keep sending e-mail to me everyday..
Thx..
aiyak, I get ur email only after 6.15PM =.=
btw, the bolehVPN is worth of subscribing.
60days = RM50.00 = f*ck the bloody tmnuts for 2months!
Gr8…
Thank you raymond!
hahaha…bolehVPN sure are boleh…
i have using it for quite some time and the speed was superb!!!!
Just encrypt your torrents, ever since i did everythnig inc speed has been fine. Thry cant detect them if they are encrypted.
I\’m in :D.
How do I tell whether my ISP is throttling P2P traffic?
I have a 512K connection and I used to download at above 40kb/s. However, since about 4 months back, it never gets above 20kb/s.
I use Dhiraagu from Maldives.
Thanks.
hi raymond, i’m malaysian.. i live in penang, thx for ur sharing useful tips… i really stressful about torrent and rapidshare, cause my university wireless blocks them… no rapid n no torrent. and the only way to access is with other internet such as broadband (i’m using celcom broadband) which is so slow in my area…
so hopefully i’m one of the lucky guy who got bolehVPN licence…
Hi Raymond,
…would love to have bolehvpn account. Thanks
huh…
i really wan it….
but i think i cant get it…
bad luck….
thanks
I’m Malaysian..I want that account pls..thnx Raymond~
BTW ray..if you r in malaysia….you can check our CSS server @ 114.31.28.246 .. this is made by our Smile ISP provider… you can find it in garena>Malyasian Room though all the bangladeshis get smooth connection. Hope you get too..try it
Hi, I dont live in malaysia. I live in Bangladesh actually. But the bad news is our internet comes through malaysia by fibre optic. I was downloading a lot of movies through p2p , oneday i got this throttling problem. After googling for around 10 days… i found the paw project. Now i m totally depended on it. Its a pain…. not all the the torrent clients work. i use utorrent with PAW..but still poor speed..i get around 10 – 15. Please give me a VPN license or any solution to get my speed back :(
Hi Raymond … I’m The Malaysian .. I Hope I Will Get It .
Chuck: Nope it doesn’t work here over in Malaysia :(
The good thing about our VPN is that you only push your p2p traffic through it leaving your other connections untouched which means only your p2p goes through the VPN which is a huge advantage over regular VPN setups.
They have a few subscription packages. Check them out here
Thanks for the review. Am really interested to find out about the cost. Where can I subscribe to it?
Cheers!
The Malaysian Explorer
thx ray.
Count me too.
I’m Malaysian
i will skip the vpn but did you try to encrypt utorrent
in Utorrent 1.8.1 click Preferences then BitTorrent and then change Protocol Encryption to enabled from disabled as it works here in the Western hemisphere ( not to sure about your Eastern hemisphere )
not sure what the forced option is as i have never tried it and right now i don’t even need to enable the encryption as my ISP does not block P2P traffic
hope this helps ( and it is worth a try as vpn’s are sometimes a hassle to set up and slow down your connection speed and that is the opposite of what you want)
good luck and take care
:-)
chuck
Thanks mate.
Thanks for the post Raymond. I love trying out VPNs.
I even have private L2TP VPN and PPTP VPN servers.
By the way, you could also use AlwaysVPN or HotSpot shield.
And I guess you should do a post about all Free and Paid VPN companies available. It would be a great reference post for all needs. Thanks.
i wan one~~~thx raymond~
oh Christmas giveaway, but not to me… Hi,
Thks raymond.
Saya nak satu Ray..
arrrggg …ray spare me one plzzzzzzzzzzz
I’m not really sure but as far as I know, there is a possibility you can bypass it with a combination of VPN and a change of DNS servers. You can try asking the BolehVPN people if they are willing to let you give it a try. Maybe a one day trial perhaps?
Huge thanks to you Raymond. Been reading your blog since a long time. Good thing I know you always post stuff around this time.
Hey ray,
nice info, well am not from malaysia but from singapore, will I be able to use the same service, I wanna know one more thing, here the starhub ISP blocks many sites, not only porn but many random sites, is there anyway to bypass those ? i tried using proxy servers.. but no use :( plz mail me abt the same..
thnx..
I want2 I want!!
Raymond, Can i have 1 too, pretty please. I’m few second late >.< (if u see my post on top) (BTW i’m using maxis broadband, so can i use it ?)
thank you for the information Raymond. :)
The newsletter are sent usually after an hour after posting. You might want to check your spam filters.
hey raymond why dont i get your newsletter even though i subscribed :o
a…i am too late T_T
I wan 1 too. I am malaysian
Yeah gazett0z, you came in just few seconds late.
Tell you what, I’ll buy one for you as well. Make that 4 accounts giveaway. Wait for my email.
man… too slow by one minute.
me want too….
Peter gets the second one and swk_myy gets the third one. If you’ve entered the correct email address, you should receive an email from me by today.
nice post
You are the man Ray……….I’m fucking love your posts.
Keep up your goooooooooooood work..my man…
I’m a malaysian! I want BolehVpn. It’s rewarding to read your blog. Thanks!
BolehVPN …hei i think it goes well with our country motto (Malaysia Boleh), Great info Ray, maybe i give it try. btw..streamyx really slow and last week its down a few times in miri..eeergh.
thank you . for that
thanks
Thanks Raymond..
xje4bv gets the first one! 2 more to be given away.
i hope am a Malaysian as well.. LOL
Thanks Ray!
Me wants one