Rose Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 As I know uTorrent uses BitTorrent protocol when downloading files. I used wireshark protocol analyzer with uTorrent. But it didn't show any BitTorrent protocol while dowloading, but when it started seeding I could see wireshark detecting BitTorrent protocol. I'm pleased if any one could help me. Does uTorrent actually use BitTorrent protocol while downloading content? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5618 Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 µTorrent is a bittorrent client, and only a bittorrent client. So it sure as hell uses the bittorrent protocol. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 If you use WireShark, you'll probably just see TCP or UDP packets flying left and right instead of anything marked as "BitTorrent" traffic. I would expect so anyway... I honestly haven't tried WireShark myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 What are your current encryption settings?I would expect if µTorrent was using forced encryption and no legacy connections that WireShark shouldn't see any BitTorrent specific traffic at all except *maybe* by incoming connections that don't use encrpytion...and those will be automatically dropped by µTorrent (with force encryption on). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted July 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 What are your current encryption settings?.I'm new to BitTorrent. But I got to do a research project on it. Does uTorrent has any encryption mechanism built in? I havent changed any encryption settings there.If you use WireShark, you'll probably just see TCP or UDP packets flying left and right instead of anything marked as "BitTorrent" traffic.When dowloading a file to my machine from the network I could see whole protocol traffic except BitTorrent. But when my machine started seeding I could clearly see BitTorrent traffic via WireShark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 µTorrent played a key part in the creation of BitTorrent protocol encryption.Many ISPs have figured out other ways to throttle it to a fraction of the "rated" line speed since then...but not all of them are so interested in losing customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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