If you are fucking outraged by BT Broadband throttling bittorrent traffic read on to see how you can avoid this. Be aware that if you download too much BT may impale you on their spikes of justice for breaching their ‘fair-use’ policy. I for one am not happy to have my bittorrent downloads crawl at 20kb/s for most of the day.
This is a pretty simple trick that will work for now but there is not a guarantee that it is future proof. Simply change your bittorrent port to ‘443′ and don’t forget to forward that port on your router.
If you happen to be running Ubuntu or some other flavour of Linux like myself, then you might need to run your bittorrent client as superuser. To do this try running your bittorrent client using gksudo in Gnome or kdesu in KDE.
For instance, I typically hit ALT+F2 and type:
gksudo deluge
Deluge being my preferred bittorrent client, due to it’s similarity to utorrent for Windows. Don’t forget to test the port to make sure it’s forwarded.
